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Desiree O’Neal
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PhD Student @ USC Rossier | TeachersCollege Grad | Spelman College Alumna | 1913🔺🐘 | Literature Enthusiast
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Desiree O’Neal @desireeoneal.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hey y'all! 👋🏾 I’m Desiree, and I'm new to Bluesky. I’m a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Southern California. My research aims to advance racial and educational equity by critically examining and confronting antiblackness in education policymaking. Excited to be in community with you!
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Y'all see how the Eagles just beat the Chiefs ass.

Very cutsey. Very demure. VERY DEI.
February 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Nobody is telling me nothing this Black History Month, you hear?
Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl, standing amidst dancers in red, white and blue coordinated like the US flag The Samuel L. Jackson at the Super Bowl, dressed as “Unc Sam,” redefining the icon of propaganda in the first and second World Wars Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl, smiling over the dead body of Aubrey while looking at the camera like we all know
February 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
probably the most mischievous grin ever
February 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Serena Williams!
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.
February 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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screaming MUSTAAAAAARD until halftime
February 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
GIVE US KENDRICK LAMAR
February 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Thoughts for @thecut.com on MLK Day, an unwatchable inauguration, and the Kings’ marching orders for us all.

Read here: www.thecut.com/article/dont...
January 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Permanent mood.
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
People may think unqualified Black students were taking spots, but that's likely not the case:

In CA, there were less minorities at selective schools after Affirmative Action was banned because minorities who could get into those schools simply didn't apply. They sorted into less selective schools.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, MISMATCH, AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY AFTER CALIFORNIA’S PROPOSITION 209∗ ZACHARY BLEEMER Proposition 209 banned race-based affirmative action at California public universities in 1998. Using a difference-in-differences research design and a newly constructed longitudinal database linking all 1994–2002 University of California applicants to their educational experiences and wages, I show that ending affirmative action caused underrepresented minority (URM) freshman applicants to cascade into lower-quality colleges. The “mismatch hypothesis” implies that this cascade would provide net educational benefits to URM applicants, but their degree attainment declined overall and in STEM fields, especially among less academically qualified applicants. URM applicants’ average wages in their twenties and thirties subsequently declined, driven by declines among Hispanic applicants. These declines are not explained by URM students’ performance or persistence in STEM course sequences, which were unchanged after Prop 209. Ending affirmative action also deterred thousands of qualified URM students from applying to any UC campus. Complementary regression discontinuity and institutional valueadded analyses suggest that affirmative action’s net educational and wage benefits for URM applicants exceed its net costs for on-the-margin white and Asian applicants.
December 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death
Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.
www.npr.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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I know Nikki Giovanni was 81 and lived a full life.

I just wanted her to be immortal. 🥺💔
December 10, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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🥺😔… Thank you for sharing your words and wisdom with the world. RIP to a legend.
December 10, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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Not my #SpotifyWrapped telling me I had a “Pumpkin Spice Hollywood Pop” phase from August through October 😂😂
December 4, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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🚨 New Pub Alert 🚨

We surface how PhD Candidates of Color understood and responded to the commodification of their racial identities through both their socialization for the job market and their experiences applying for tenure track faculty jobs at HWIs. Check it out!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screengrab of the PDF of our manuscript, “I’m a Needed Commodity in the Academy”: Racial Capitalism and the Positioning of Race as Capital in the Faculty Job Market
November 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Happy 100th Birthday to my Soror, the legendary late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm! A trailblazer who shattered barriers and made history with unapologetic strength and fierce love for the people.

Your legacy still inspires me to fight for justice, equality, and a better tomorrow.
November 30, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Finna go run up the streams outta spite. Alexa, play Not Like Us 😂
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Kendrick should put out another song right now. Oh my god this is embarrassing.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Nov 25
“Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’”

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Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” In a filing Monday (Nov. 25) in Manhattan court, Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC accused UMG of launching an illegal “scheme” involving bots, payola and other methods to pump up Lamar’s song — a track that savagely attacked Drake amid an ongoing feud between the two stars. Drake’s attorneys accuse UMG of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the federal “RICO” statute often used in criminal cases against organized crime. They also allege deceptive business practices and false advertising under New York state law. The court filings are a remarkable twist in the high-profile beef between the two stars, which saw Drake and Kendrick exchange stinging diss tracks over a period of months earlier this year. That such a dispute would spill into business litigation seemed almost unthinkable in the world of hip-hop.
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Who is all going to this annual banquet? 👀👀 #UCEA2024
November 24, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Wishing all my friends heading to #ASHE2024 safe travels!! ✈️☃️
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 5:22 AM