Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬

I enjoyed this conversation on how I became a historian, how I arrived at researching on Antigua & Barbuda, and how looking at small places still raises big questions about how, amid poverty and colonialism, black people struggled to be free. Thanks for having me @NewBooksCarib

Someday soon, what’s been obvious to so many of us from the beginning will be understood by everyone: that if a city can be reduced to rubble with its people held captive inside, if they can be starved in full view of the world, everything is permitted, and this threatens us all.

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07…

Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable | @vcunningham | @NewYorker The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy. newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

If your commitment is contingent on people being nice to you, then you’re not actually committed enough and deserve the ridicule and scorn being heaped upon you even more than you already did.

rip george orwell you tried your best to warn us

The “we can no longer stay silent” line is so deeply disturbing. As if everything up until this point was fine: the maimed children, the slaughter of tens of thousands, the non stop carpet bombing… Why were you silent in the first place? Shame on all of you.

Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07…

Someone said Jet2 holiday is the song of the Summer.

this sentence was never meant to be said

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*

Give the kids structure in a positive environment. Nurture their creativity. Develop their confidence & independence. Not only because evidence shows it leads to crime reduction and improved academic performance, but because they deserve safe, enriching, engaging opportunities.

Baltimore has been investing youth programming, including late night programs, summer camps, teen jobs, sports, after school programs, etc. Homicides in the city are down 40%, with steep drops in robberies, carjackings, and shootings. This should be talked about more.

1 in 2 U.S. workers can't afford healthcare without going into debt. People are using buy now, pay later apps to go into debt to buy groceries GoFundMe has 250k pages dedicated to medical bills and 40k for tuition Every statistic of struggling Americans is tied a policy choice

You don’t even have free parking at the hospital ffs.

You’re confused. Americans don’t have health care, we have insurance.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Some GOOD NEWS for a change! This one is personal — it’s been a long time in the making. Thank you to all those who helped along the way.

columbia just suspended 80 students at once ranging from 1-3 year long suspensions & barnard hasn’t even released their sanctions yet. they have also been systematically targeting students by tripling tuition or removing our financial aid altogether w/ no explanation

Adulthood is just saying, "next month should be less hectic" over and over until you die

Sudan is being starved like Gaza, but receiving WAY less attention. There are two different groups of people being annihilated in front of us and whatever we are doing isn't enough. Please talk about both, help both!