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George Yancy: Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense”

Control the curriculum and you control the range of ideas that people are exposed to. This is why schooling is inherently political.

October 6, 2025 · 7 Comments

Video: My God, It’s Full of Stars | Tracy K. Smith

This short film adapts a poem by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K Smith, whose father worked on the Hubble as one of NASA’s first Black engineers, with meticulously crafted visuals from the Brazilian animation director Daniel Brunson to create a wondrous ode to our desire to know the Universe.

March 27, 2022 · 2 Comments

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