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Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-22/a-visual-history-of-mutual-aid

The hunt for Atlanta’s friendly black coyote – Atlanta Magazine
— Read on www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/the-hunt-for-atlantas-friendly-black-coyote/

If indeed what we confront is an apartheid state, then what is our responsibility as scholars and educators? Put bluntly, what is the role of the university in the age of (American) white supremacy? What are the critiques, actions, and pedagogies we must produce to challenge the normalization of violence?
— Read on www.societyandspace.org/articles/divesting-from-whiteness-the-university-in-the-age-of-trumpism

By this point, we have perhaps become accustomed to the inquiries from friends and family—“So, what do you study exactly?” The response—“Geography”—is often met by perplexed looks and polite smiles—“And, what do you plan to do with that?” For us, this dreaded question belies more than the familiar ritual of mid-twenty-something professional angst.
— Read on www.societyandspace.org/articles/making-room-for-black-feminist-praxis-in-geography

Full article: Race matters (even more than you already think): Racism, housing, and the limits of The Color of Law
— Read on www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26884674.2020.1825023

Go-go legends and local scholars appear throughout the film, which interweaves archival footage and videos from this summer’s protests in D.C.
— Read on www.npr.org/local/305/2020/12/02/941396358/a-new-documentary-explores-impact-of-go-go-music-on-gentrification-protests-in-d-c

NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/nypd-cops-cash-in-on-sex-trade-arrests-with-little-evidence-while-black-and-brown-new-yorkers-pay-the-price/amp

In Henrietta Lacks’s centennial year, researchers must do more to ensure that human cells cannot be taken without consent.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z

When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song — a voice calling for reclamation.”
— Read on www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/this-thanksgiving-read-a-native-american-poets-song-of-healing

While it was known that the government sprayed ‘harmless’ zinc cadmium silfide particles over the general population in St Louis, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at St. Louis Community College, claims that a radioactive additive was also mixed with the compound.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210415/amp/Revealed-Army-scientists-secretly-sprayed-St-Louis-radioactive-particles-YEARS-test-chemical-warfare-technology.html