A federal judge pointed to President Donald Trump’s shockingly disparaging comments about immigrants and foreigners in his ruling that allows a lawsuit to proceed that seeks to block a census question on citizenship status. U.S. District Judge George Hazel said in a ruling in Maryland on Friday that plaintiffs had properly supported their claim that a…

WASHINGTON ― Now that Republicans have lost the House, we can finally bury the mysterious tax cut that President Donald Trump said would pass sometime around Election Day ― a pledge that perplexed virtually everyone else. When Trump in October initially broached the prospect of a “major tax cut for middle-income people,” nobody in Congress or…

U.S. Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar shared photos of letters she received from young students asking the newly elected congresswoman to advocate for their families and other immigrants and refugees. — Read on m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bec75efe4b0a2569fd136f6

I think you bring back the possibility of dialectical culture and it’s inspiring: I went to the Science Fiction course you ran at Nottingham Contemporary in 2010 (I can’t believe that was eight years ago!) and it was prophetic (The Man in the High Castle, for example. What that made me realise is that when……

by Benjamin Holtzman (get the PDF) Robin D.G. Kelley has long been considered one of the premiere scholars of African American history and culture. He is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, having previously taught at Columbia University, New York University, University of Michigan, Emory University, and Southeastern Massachusetts……

The myth of the Hausa origin suggests that Hausa states were founded by desendants of one BAYAJIDDA. Bayajidda on arrival in Daura killed a snake that had been terrorizing people,depriving the inhabitants of the use of the town’s well.It was said that the Queen of Daura later married Bayajidda in gratitude for his efforts in…

Only recently, thanks to a sale containing many Concord/Original Jazz Classics discs, I started picking up on Rollins’ post-Impulse recording. I’ve had most of his early recordings, way up to “Alfie” and “East Broadway Rundown”, but not much from later on, and while the later recordings aren’t up to the early ones, there’s plenty of…