📚 “If art is a conduit for beauty above all else, there is no description of the finches beautiful enough to offset all that is taken out of the world when a child is murdered by an occupation force” 🕊️
Omar El-Akkad book launch - vital, and important

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seems a bit dramatic

Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students this fall, the lowest number since the 1960s, following last year's SCOTUS decision banning affirmative action

I’m a reader, writer, researcher and hoarder of books. 📚
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Tributes are pouring in for Nikki Giovanni, a world-renowned poet and key figure of the Black Arts Movement

I just don’t know how Sex Lives of College Girls continues without Renee Rapp. She’s the most dynamic part of that show

Thanks to Fitzcarraldo for sending me the new edition of Edward Said's The Question of Palestine. Great to see this classic reissued at an important time, with Said's later essay on the one-state solution and new preface by the excellent Saree Makdisi.