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Anwar Uhuru, Ph.D.
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Ooloi, philosopher, aesthete, writer, witchy autistic non-binary queer
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It is my pleasure to announce the release of the special co-edited edition of Liminalities. Myself and Myron Beasley edited this edition and I could not be more pleased with our collaboration and the work of the contributors... Please enjoy!! @performbrazil.bsky.social
liminalities.net/21-3/
Liminalities 21.3 (2025)
a special issue on Corporeal Migration and Performance
liminalities.net
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Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“The unspeakable spoken feeling is a call to arms from the river, by which the singer was born, to some place else…”—Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia”

@blacklikewho.bsky.social @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge

"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor.

It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Democrats fought harder against Zohran Mamdani
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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It is my pleasure to announce the release of the special co-edited edition of Liminalities. Myself and Myron Beasley edited this edition and I could not be more pleased with our collaboration and the work of the contributors... Please enjoy!! @performbrazil.bsky.social
liminalities.net/21-3/
Liminalities 21.3 (2025)
a special issue on Corporeal Migration and Performance
liminalities.net
July 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Anwar Uhuru, Ph.D.
Check out our latest publication on doulas Advocating for anti-racist practices in UK Maternity Care www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Frontiers | Beyond birth support: how doulas navigate anti-racism advocacy for refugee and asylum-seeking women in UK maternity care
BackgroundAsylum-seeking and refugee women face significant maternal health disparities in the UK, prompting the emergence of doula and birth companion organ...
www.frontiersin.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Perfect response to the TERF Joanne Rowling better know as JK Rowling
August 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It is my pleasure to announce the release of the special co-edited edition of Liminalities. Myself and Myron Beasley edited this edition and I could not be more pleased with our collaboration and the work of the contributors... Please enjoy!! @performbrazil.bsky.social
liminalities.net/21-3/
Liminalities 21.3 (2025)
a special issue on Corporeal Migration and Performance
liminalities.net
July 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Anwar Uhuru, Ph.D.
The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
June 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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“For both Fanon and Gutiérrez, liberation begins with the cry of the suffering and the ethical refusal to let that suffering remain unanswered.”
Decolonizing Faith: Frantz Fanon, Liberation Theology, and the Struggle for Dignity
Introduction Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) and Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024), both thinkers from the Global South, emerged from distinct geopolitical margins and intellectual traditions shaped by the legac...
blog.apaonline.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82
Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.
abcnews.go.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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June 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When an elder dies a library burns with them😢
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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"The very people who power our cities through their labor are being pushed not just out of their neighborhoods but, increasingly, out of housing altogether."

ICYMI, my interview with CBS Evening News about There Is No Place for Us:
May 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM