I’m so excited to learn of this new edited vol from INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS of Claudia Jones work! Coming to a revolutionary library near you soon!!! intpubnyc.com/browse/claudia…

We had a Q&A session with students yesterday. This was the moment Corinne Gressang (she/her) informed me Chicago Style no longer requires publication place. I still haven't recovered

A student made this meme for me, and I feel seen

The Department of Justice recently removed its disparate impact protections. What this means: a tool that was once used to identify discrimination in employment, education, housing, policing, and health care has now been gutted, leaving Black communities with even more

I was shot at a school shooting at 15. Last night spent locked down at my university while learning of casualties & the many injured. This is not how I imagined life when I was little girl. I miss that carefree child I once was. Thinking of the many affected #BrownUniversity

Apparently my dept has gone viral for this amazing video of us grading finals…. 500,000 views?!?! instagram.com/reel/DSIRRbDDl…

Three years ago, Tyre Nichols was brutally beaten by Memphis police, and died three days later. He was a son, a father, a friend, and a creative soul who loved photography, skateboarding, and sunsets. We remember Tyre for the light he brought to this world. His life mattered.

I study authoritarianism for a living, so I do not say this lightly: America isn't facing an authoritarian future. America is living an authoritarian present. (A long 🧵) /1

We honor the life of Claudette Colvin, whose courageous refusal to surrender her seat as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama was one of several acts of resistance that challenged segregation before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ms. Colvin later became one of the plaintiffs in Browder

This #MLKDay, remember my father by: Amplifying and advocating for the end of state-sanctioned and facilitated violence against Black and Brown immigrants and against people, period. Speaking up for people who are suffering genocide in Sudan. Palestine, Congo, and other

New semester, new tote #stlouis

Remember when Black Lives Matter activists said what they were trying to fix affects everyone, just Black people first? Remember when Black scholars said anti-Black policies eventually always end up hurting others? Remember when Black journalists said it wasn’t economic angst?

Another great piece from Jeanne Theoharis in Hammer & Hope "Be more like King, young people are scolded, yet King himself was dismissed as unreasonable, treated as un-American, and relentlessly policed." hammerandhope.org/article/martin…

The ONLY surviving Gullah-Geechee community in Georgia just stopped developers with an 85% vote on Sapelo Island. They protected their language, culture, and ancestral land from gentrification. When Black communities unite, we win. This is power. theroot.com/how-the-gullah…

I’m honored to be amongst such excellent company!

I'm very pleased to share the work of Slippery Rock University students in our latest volume of Black History Matters: heyzine.com/shelf/a9659026… in celebration of Black history month! Some great and timely essays (schools, housing, AI, ICE, public memory) SRU Office for Inclusive Excellence SRU Pride Center PCRED

On this day in 1968, white state troopers fired into a mostly African American crowd on the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically Black college in Orangeburg, and killed three young Black men. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

If you're in St. Louis, I want to plug the new play A Brick and a Bible, produced by Bread & Roses, premiering at the Missouri History Museum, inspired by my book! Tickets are on sale, let me know if you're coming, I hope to see as many shows as I can! cur8.com/25728/project/…

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with Dr. Melissa Ford's collection of short biographies "Their Example Will Inspire Us": intpubnyc.com/browse/their-e… Communist Party USA PeoplesWorld AAIHS American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Claudia Jones School for Political Education New York Young Communist League The People's Forum DSA Industrial Workers of the World Jacobin

Huge congratulations to the creators, cast, and crew of the new play “A Brick and a Bible”, premiering at the Missouri History Museum tomorrow! The show is beautiful!