Amaka Okechukwu
@phdamaka.bsky.social
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Assoc Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies | Author of To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions (2019) | Oral Historian | Social Movements, Race/Place/Space, Black Brooklyn 📍Bmore
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Amaka Okechukwu
@phdamaka.bsky.social
· Dec 6
From the block to the world: Black placemaking in New York City over three generations
Following scholars of Critical Race Theory and Black Geographies, this article employs a biographical and genealogical methodology to trace trajectories of social, cultural, and political change in...
www.tandfonline.com
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.com
· Aug 30
PBS News
@pbsnews.org
· Aug 30
Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind ind...
www.pbs.org
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
· Apr 16
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
· Apr 16
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jess Calarco
@jessicacalarco.com
· Apr 17
Assigned Media
@assignedmedia.org
· Apr 16
Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans
Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.
www.advocate.com
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Wajahat Ali
@wajali.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
apnews.com
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Jack Tripper
@chadstanton.blacksky.app
· Apr 10
Amaka Okechukwu
@phdamaka.bsky.social
· Feb 2
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