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Greg Iles said he knew he had “nothing to teach Black readers” about racism, but hoped to influence white readers.
“If I can make white readers see America—even a little bit—through a Black character’s eyes, we have a better chance of finding common ground,” he said.
Greg Iles, the author of the “Natchez Burning” trilogy, died at 65 after a decades-long battle with the blood cancer multiple myeloma.
OPINION: “We would often talk beyond the textbook. She took time to listen to her students, and she would always encourage us—even when our papers were filled with red ink," Jessica Lewis said of her former professor.
Lawanda Dickens writes on the bond between Jessica Lewis and her former English professor, which empowered Lewis to become an educator.
There’s no word games that will stop a bigot from being a bigot. No, they aren’t a bigot because somebody said “deadname” or “intersectionality.” As a matter of fact, those terms came to describe decades of oppression and mistreatment.
There's no such thing as good settler colonialism. Not in the past. Not today in Palestine.
OPINION: Many Indigenous peoples’ families in the U.S. and Canada have stories of surviving forced starvation by the government. Mine does, too. religionnews.com/2025/08/13/t...
(The Conversation) — An Indigenous scholar explains how starvation was used to acquire the lands of Indigenous peoples. Her great-grandparents experienced ‘starvation winter’ on the Blackfeet…
I read this obituary of Awdah Hathaleen who was murdered by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and thought about how his murder was made possible by Americans of all stripes propagandizing each other about how “Jews will be offended if I criticize Israel”
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Third Way is "Defending Democracy"—one banned words list at a time.
Scoop: Third Way is circulating a memo, shared first with @playbookdc, featuring a new blacklist of words Dems shouldn’t use.
a first step to organizing people to do anything right now is just bringing people together for anything—to vent. to eat together. to make art.
to remind people we have each other. to ask what we can do together. to keep the despair at bay.
Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply.
There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵
One of Silicon Valley's foundational myths is that newcomers to a field are uniquely equipped to solve its problems because they're not weighed down by biases and habits that make "experts" overlook obvious solutions.
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way." 🧵
