Familiar to just about every Black American, the phrase "traveling while Black," encapsulates the experiences & challenges encountered by Black people during their travels, particularly in predominantly white or racially hostile environments. It sheds light on the racial profiling, discrimination, and systemic biases that generations of Black folks have faced on their journeys across the American landscape.

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The best spot.

Galactic centre (and Scorpius, and the Southern Cross) rising over Tasmania, winter solstice(-ish) 2023.

(Photo by me.)

“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a resigning math teacher told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”

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In a deep red Florida county, a student-teacher revolt shames the right https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/hernando-county-ron-desantis-book-bans-democratic-governors/