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Elizabeth Greenspan
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Writing abt cities & | Teaching urban studies and creative writing at UPenn | Board member @bluestoopphl | Philadelphia | https://elizabethgreenspan.com/
Memphis, Through the Lens of Tyre Nichols https://nyti.ms/3SJQ6CQ
Shannon MatternThe impostor syndrome label “implies that women are suffering from a crisis of self-confidence and fails to recognize the real obstacles facing professional women, especially women of color — essentially, [it] reframes systemic inequality as an individual pathology… ‘Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work.’” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-dubious-rise-of-impostor-syndrome
Came across this excellent Lou Kahn quote this morning: "the forces that we see as being status quo and given turn out to be the most unreliable of all. We must go beyond them."
(From "notes from an architectural studio under louis kahn, fall 1964," architectural archives) https://t.co/ngIxYQstwV
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“Came across this excellent Lou Kahn quote this morning: "the forces that we see as being status quo and given turn out to be the most unreliable of all. We must go beyond them." (From "notes from an architectural studio under louis kahn, fall 1964," architectural archives)”
Jelani CobbAn open letter from 200+ African American Studies professors regarding Florida’s rejection of the AP pilot course. https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c
Drew HarwellNew: Memphis spent $10 million installing thousands of 24/7 police-linked surveillance cameras, called SkyCops, on the promise they'd deter crime. But crime's only gone up. And even the cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death weren't deterred.
“Surveillance doesn’t prevent crime, even police crime. These officers knew they were on camera, and they still did this.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/
Ignacio Gallup-DiazYES:
Philly schools will teach a unit on MOVE, part of the refreshed African American history curriculum
The unit is being developed in collaboration with Mike Africa Jr., and will also incorporate community feedback.
Stephanie KingWell this is some bullshit to kick off #BlackHistoryMonth
You can't teach African-American History without Black Lives Matter, unless you're going to pretend history ended abruptly 10 years ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153364556/ap-african-american-studies-black-history-florida-desantis