Derrick R. Brooms
@drbrooms7.bsky.social
working through my reading lists... writing what I like.
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'On weekends, Stanford University professor Adam Banks flies from the California campus to Cleveland, on a mission to teach a college-level African American studies class to the Black community — for free.'
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Bringing Black Studies to Black People
Dr. Adam Banks flies from the Bay Area to Cleveland most weekends to teach. Black studies in a neighborhood cafe.
wordinblack.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
'On weekends, Stanford University professor Adam Banks flies from the California campus to Cleveland, on a mission to teach a college-level African American studies class to the Black community — for free.'
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
Excited about an “accept with minor revisions” we received this week for a paper a brilliant grad student is leading.
Also excited for this essay I co-wrote w a dope colleague.
Look forward to moving the paper along and getting the essay out.
Also excited for this essay I co-wrote w a dope colleague.
Look forward to moving the paper along and getting the essay out.
December 21, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Excited about an “accept with minor revisions” we received this week for a paper a brilliant grad student is leading.
Also excited for this essay I co-wrote w a dope colleague.
Look forward to moving the paper along and getting the essay out.
Also excited for this essay I co-wrote w a dope colleague.
Look forward to moving the paper along and getting the essay out.
Reposted by Derrick R. Brooms
For our annual @nytimes.com “The Lives They Lived” issue, I wrote about how Frankie Beverly created the song that became the Black cookout anthem. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Frankie Beverly’s ‘Before I Let Go’ Became a Cookout Anthem
How the R&B hit ‘Before I Let Go’ became an enduring anthem.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:16 PM
For our annual @nytimes.com “The Lives They Lived” issue, I wrote about how Frankie Beverly created the song that became the Black cookout anthem. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Derrick R. Brooms
"Black men born between 1951 and 1970 accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population. This disparity is worse than in any other jurisdiction in the data analysis."
@51st.news
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Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country
Black men in their mid-fifties to mid-seventies accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population.
51st.news
December 20, 2024 at 12:27 PM
"Black men born between 1951 and 1970 accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population. This disparity is worse than in any other jurisdiction in the data analysis."
@51st.news
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Celebrating the life and legacy of the incomparable Nikki Giovanni... May you rest in peace and power. We appreciate you and we send Love to you, your family, and your Loved ones.
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Celebrating the life and legacy of the incomparable Nikki Giovanni... May you rest in peace and power. We appreciate you and we send Love to you, your family, and your Loved ones.
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
Reposted by Derrick R. Brooms
“Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half
After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:08 AM
“Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
we climb
to higher ridges
to gain better perspectives
clouds are settling in
perhaps there's a storm
or maybe the clouds
are playing their game
defying gravity
maybe i can hide
in the shadows
listening to the birds
wrap me in their songs
like blankets
creating new horizons...
to higher ridges
to gain better perspectives
clouds are settling in
perhaps there's a storm
or maybe the clouds
are playing their game
defying gravity
maybe i can hide
in the shadows
listening to the birds
wrap me in their songs
like blankets
creating new horizons...
December 20, 2024 at 5:07 AM
we climb
to higher ridges
to gain better perspectives
clouds are settling in
perhaps there's a storm
or maybe the clouds
are playing their game
defying gravity
maybe i can hide
in the shadows
listening to the birds
wrap me in their songs
like blankets
creating new horizons...
to higher ridges
to gain better perspectives
clouds are settling in
perhaps there's a storm
or maybe the clouds
are playing their game
defying gravity
maybe i can hide
in the shadows
listening to the birds
wrap me in their songs
like blankets
creating new horizons...