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Things i talk about a lot is rape culture. i read an op-ed in "time," which i found really offensive and i was outraged. so i chose to react to that by starting a hashtag and also writing a response in "time." so it was both/and. it was twitter and also offline activism -- well, really not offline, it was a "time" op-ed online, so it was still online. i cant leave the internet. >> all very blurry. >> i havent been out of my house in months! richard, i felt you responding to her there when she wa...

Lynching to the end of legal segregation to the election of an african-american president if america has often been an ally of african-americans and often its nemesis. it is one thing to notice the persistence of racism, quite another to interpret the history of black america, as mainly one of continuity, rather than mainly one of progress. this is the kind of racial optimism we see here from chait and does often inflect the conversations between white liberals and african-american, not all afri...

Its a politics of people saying, i might be doing well, but youre not, or my cousin or my family or theres a story here of standing in solidarity with each other. and i think a lot of feminist politics is a politics of solidarity. so how do you get a politics that can acknowledge that were going to fail with each other, but that we have to have an argument that says, lets talk about gender, but even when you try, you fail. and they failed on that. they werent able to put that together. but to sa...

Beltran, associate professor at new york university. brittany cooper, assistant professor of women and genders studies y ies at rutger univers and tanner kolbe. mr. coates, are you just depressed? >> it goes back to that water is wet thing. i feel like i talk to academics about this, and theyre like, yeah, this is the world. but theres this american need to believe everything is going to get better. that were going to triumph in the end. which is bizarre and i dont think is necessarily healthy. ...

Introduced to black twitter, who did not know it existed. >> in different ways. >> previously in a variety of ways. but i have seen it both act in forms of kind of making sure that cultural appropriation is not occurring, that i am kind of cheering on, and ive seen it act as a mob. >> yeah, i think the thing we have to figure out is how to both harness the cultural power we have to direct conversations, while not seeming reactionary, right? and this is the thing that i worry about, is that our m...

Intellectuals and race scholars in general ask people to do is to sit with the tragedy of white racism, or to sit with the tragedy of racial violence, and really sit with it and think about it and engage it, and not always shift to the happy ending, to the language of innocence, and so to really do that is difficult. and i think thats one of the reasons why theres always this demand to perform joy and pleasure and, you know, and things are getting better. was i think the other part thats a littl...

Doing wage labor, being paid far less in order to do it. and then trying to support those men when they come home and need a place to say. and so women are doing all of this extra labor to hold these communities the together. whats interesting is, were always talking about women in these policy debates, but never, ever saying it, and so theres a deep level of con temtempt ther. >> if you think theres not an empirical basis for professor cooper, well send out a tweet with this fantastic new repor...

U.s. agency for international development or usaid hatched a plan to develop a bare bones cuban twitter. the plan was supposed to use cell phone text messaging to bypass cubas control of information and internet restrictions. once the base of cuban twitter grew, operators would introduce content to inspire cubans to organize smart mobs. but the base never grew that big and the technology was never that great. and by 2012, cuban twitter vanished. so it was a, you know, #fail. but it is interestin...

Young children sitting on their laps. these mothers couldnt dream of having nannies and yet they were the ones who needed them the most. we provide free relief child care to moms undergoing cancer treatment. some of our volunteers are even cancer survivors themselves. how do you rest with a 2-year-old running around? >> our program allows mothers the freedom to take a rest because thats what they need the most to get better. >> what audrey has done for moms with cancer is to give us hope. >> how...

Drops and you shift from one side to the other even if its a different scenery. to try to keep things fresh and new and believe it, it doesnt matter how tired you are, you know that the family is waiting for word, it drives you. it really does. it drives you to do things you normally wouldnt do in a less stressful situation. >> kudos to the crews out there working tirelessly for the families. thank you. lets broaden the conversation out. joining me here, the kapt captain of the 777 and contribut...