The Forum

The Forum is a site of news and commentary published by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF).

[The Forum @TheForumAAPF]

New on https://t.co/bde5iuzEbH: @byeliseam on the student protests that led to the creation of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Gender Studies, and faculty solidarity with the students of the Gaza solidarity encampments. https://t.co/KJb9vLdJGD

[The Forum @TheForumAAPF]

"The occlusion around violence against Black women often makes it difficult to obtain basic information about what occurs to them when they are killed in police custody." https://t.co/3YtkM0qMqf

[Esha Karam @esha_karam]

I annotated the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s 325-page report on antisemitism on college campuses for @ColumbiaSpec. Over 143 pages of the report feature materials from Columbia and Barnard. Here are some of the top takeaways 🧵https://t.co/DhfiC1KQBJ

[GNCordova @GNCordova]

If this country didn’t treat incarcerated people like they’re subhuman, this story would be all over every news platform. But because these are Black men and the US prison system is the evolution of American chattel slavery, people don’t care.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

PEN America is deeply alarmed over House passage of a bill allowing the Treasury Secretary to revoke the tax-exempt status of any 501c3 by designating it as supporting terrorism. The bill could have far-reaching implications across the political spectrum. https://t.co/1SFAWen2bk

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

Let’s please take great care right now.Please. Every stride we made on civil rights in America was “opposed by the electoral majority”. Dr King if read through our coarse data lens was the leader of a cause that was always “under water” with the electorate.

We need to take care

[Johnny Rocco @MudandMayo]

Maybe I should sue the California Department of Corrections 🤔

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

So…Ben Carson wrote the housing plan under Project 2025 (yes, that Dr. Ben Carson).

I won’t pull any punches…if you were saving to buy a house or move to an apt, get that done now.

[Aren LeBrun @arenrlebrun]

To break the backs of state education departments as part of a broader capitalist initiative to privatize all K-12 education and turn it into a for-profit industry that excludes the poor and working class by design.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I wrote about Joe Biden, who deserves much of the blame for Harris’ defeat. Biden likes to say he ran in 2020 to save democracy from Trump. By refusing to relinquish power until it was too late, he handed the country back to him on a silver platter. That will be his legacy. 🧵

[Bolts @boltsmag]

California and Nevada are currently among 16 states that never fully abolished slavery.

Today, voters in both states will decide whether to approve similar ballot measures ending forced labor in prisons.
https://t.co/lRzh3TfNAe

[Sara Luterman @slooterman]

In Georgia, a disabled-lead local effort to bridge obstacles and get more disabled voters to the polls. https://t.co/gt2Gr3Zh2G

[Taniel @Taniel]

A HS teacher just emailed me to say: "Your cheat sheet is a lifesaver: it's portable so students can add to it as they watch results come in, and it drives home the message of how critical down-ballot races are." Literally the dream sort of email to get.

Share it along! (↓)

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

What I think about in wake of Quincy Jones’ death is how big and audacious his life was. His grandfather was a slave. It’s not like he descended from talented tenthers. His imagination, talent, charisma-and amazingly good fortune-took him places almost no black men had ever been

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

The Museum of the City of New York has an awesome new exhibition on Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress and first to run for President. She’d be 100 this year. I’m a trained guide at the museum so don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like a tour. It’s very timely!

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

An all-white jury sentenced Richard Moore to death in South Carolina. His crime? Fighting back when a convenience store clerk pulled a gun on HIM, resulting in both of them being shot (the clerk fatally.) SC is trying to execute a man for self defense!! https://t.co/JSWENzfOAJ

[Anthony Conwright @aconwrites]

Join us! I will talk about this essay I wrote for @thenation about how the rhetoric Obama used to castigate Black men for not voting for Harris perpetuates an old racist mythology about Black male behavior: any transgression committed by a Black man is worse.

https://t.co/LPcEsZuM3Z