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The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of elephants and hippopotamuses.

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At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Very happy to have my poetry manuscript "The Only One in the Room with White Socks" accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press.

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

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"The senior US Republicans tasked with dismantling Joe Biden’s signature climate policy have enjoyed an investment boom of more than $130bn in the areas they represent thanks to the former president’s law." www.ft.com/content/e627...

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 21 days ago • 461 comments

Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star. Putin’s Poodle

submitted 20 days ago • 550 comments

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

submitted 27 days ago • 1464 comments

The acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two top Justice Department officials in Washington, D.C., resigned after the case against New York City's mayor war order dropped.

submitted 27 days ago • 82 comments

Truly years in the making, I'm so proud to be co-editing alongside Camisha Jones, Naomi Ortiz, and Michael Northen this new collection of disability poetry, EVERY PLACE ON THE MAP IS DISABLED, forthcoming with Northwestern University Press (cheers to Marisa Siegel!).

submitted 435 days ago • 3 comments