In case you didn’t know, the album cover for Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is actually an image of six-by-six-foot patchwork quilt made by textile artist Uzoma Samuel Anyanwu, based on a photograph by Ebru Yildiz. Two days before the album came out, I finally got to see this masterpiece in person.

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When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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That’s right

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"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

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Yeah and even amidst a national crackdown featuring military occupations and a mass deportation push their obvious anxiety lies in any effort to seriously address racial justice returning.

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