Tressie McMillan Cottom

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

NCCU is an HBCU. (Disclosure: my alma mater.) Intel ends relationship after U.S. takes stake in the company. This is the point. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...

It is the best of who I am, who I really am, with the people who get the real me. Thanks for sharing, Natalie.

I sincerely love this kind of reader. A platonic idol? Sure. A relic from a Cold War nostalgia for “mass culture” and civility? Yes. But also good on us.

Maybe top ten most iconic looks ever.

Read.

Holy ish.

oh god I don’t know it doesn’t mean anything please ignore me please

I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.

This is one of the best documentaries that I've seen in a very long time. It balances poetic storytelling with expository heft. Even if you know the historical arc, this film likely adds depth to your cultural analysis of who is a zombie and why we make zombies.