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The Black Consumer Advisory: Leveraging Our Dollars For Change

"In the wake of nationwide protests against systemic #racism in 2020, many corporations and institutions publicly committed to being more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Five years later and some are starting to backtrack without ever meeting promises made. As businesses reverse their commitments, it is time to hold them accountable."

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#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats

by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR

"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.

"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.

"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.

"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.

"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.

" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'

"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'

"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."

wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harva

The Harvard crest on the facade of Langdell Hall at the Harvard Law School. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
www.wbur.orgHarvard professors sue Trump administration over funding cut threatsThe suit by the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors, filed in Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The court filing says law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps. 
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Harvard University says it will "not accept" 10 demands by the Trump administration, which are ostensibly to address antisemitism and include shuttering of DEI programs and restricting acceptance of international students who are "hostile to the American values and institutions." In an email to the university community, President Alan M. Garber said Harvard had been told it would need to comply if it would like to "maintain financial relationship with the federal government." Here's more from NBC.

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A reminder that “the wisdom of crowds” does NOT mean that any random collection of ignoramuses will perform better than a small set of experts! It means that a DIVERSE SET OF EXPERTS will do better than one or two.

“The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.”

—James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds”

#expertise#wisdomOfCrowds#diversity
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Xamanismo Coletivo

"We’re in a new political universe now, one in which the chief presumption is that #whitemen are inherently qualified for their roles while #women and #racialminorities are presumptively not. In some ways, this is very retro, harking back to days when these groups were formally excluded from public office, many jobs and public participation, and when various white male authority figures would opine on their lack of aptitude for these roles.
But #MAGA ideology is even worse: A person’s professional and social fitness is determined solely by loyalty to a #singlestrongman. Intelligence, credentials, experience, expertise, even the basic ability to function as a working adult? None of that matters. This is how we get #Trump’s Cabinet stacked with some of the least qualified people to set foot in the Senate chamber at the same time as his administration rails against #DEI. The same party that claims to abhor #identitypolitics actually adopts the most extreme version of it, one in which white men are considered deserving of all power, influence, and confidence by virtue of who they are, regardless of any qualifications."

thedailybeast.com/why-the-maga

Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.
The Daily Beast · Why the MAGA Meltdown Over Amy Coney Barrett MattersAv Jill Filipovic
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