Looking forward to being a featured author at the Gold Coast Book Fair to discuss ‘Before Busing’ Hope you will stay tuned to see the full schedule and make plans to join us. See you at the fair. #GoldCoast Get your FREE tickets at the link in their bio. #goldcoastbookfair

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This is absolutely nothing I did, but I'm very pleased to see that LFTU's COVER is a 2025 AUPre3sses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection for Jacket and Cover: design.up.hcommons.org/2025-jacket-... Thank you to Lindsay Starr and UNC Press for the amazing design!!

This morning’s read is the first ARC of the Fall season: a sharp bio of Charles C. Diggs Jr., maybe the most consequential Black federal legislator ever to serve in Congress.

The GOAT ⁦Dr. Crystal Sanders⁩ 🙌 ⁦Emory University⁩’s Crystal Sanders Wins Two Awards for New Book on Graduate Education During the Jim Crow Era (A Forgotten Migration, ⁦UNC Press) ⁦The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education⁩ jbhe.com/2025/05/emorys…

"The testimony the authors collected... should be enough to call for a national inquiry into the sport’s violently destructive nature, though it is highly unlikely that any such inquiry will be launched." Excellent new review of our UNC Press book. mid-theory.com/2025/05/14/wha…

Have you ever heard of the 1968 #Cincinnati High School Sit-ins? I discuss it and more I my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! Available for pre-order #history #education UNC Press uncpress.org/book/978146969…

A surreal moment when these showed up in the mail last week. Thanks to UNC Press lucas church Thomas Bedenbaugh for all their work to see this through to fruition. And always thanks to Andrew Hartman for the support. #punk

*Secular Sensibilities* by J.A. Selby (Memorial University, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Memorial) is now available w UNC Press Awards. The 📕 considers the emotional, affective, and embodiedness of secularisms in contemporary 🇫🇷 and Québec. uncpress.org/.../978146968.… (Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%)

Excited to share UNC Press's new Fall/Winter 2025 catalog, which is full of excellent, conversation-shaping reads across music, history, politics, culture, and more. A few highlights 🧵

You can read more about this history and resistance to it in my forthcoming book from UNC Press , "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside" uncpress.org/book/978146968…

I am thrilled to see my new book mentioned in the latest issue of Duke University magazine! UNC Press Sonya Bonczek #BlackHistory

Join AAUW CEO Gloria L. Blackwell for an inspiring conversation with American Fellowship alumna Shardé M. Davis, Ph.D., author of Being Black in the Ivory: Thursday, June 26 at 2pm EST: my.aauw.org/event-informat…

Another much appreciated read and review of my book, this time from Ron Jacobs at CounterPunch. #punk UNC Press counterpunch.org/2025/06/23/pun…

I will be in Toronto to talk about college football and racial capitalist sport with Morgan “Absolute Heater of a Memoir” Campbell, Daniel Sailofsky, and Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social) on September 18 at 6pm at Hart House. Very much hope to see y’all there. harthouse.ca/events/violenc…

I had the great honor to give a book talk at the UNCF UNITE conference. Then, I had a book signing and SOLD OUT. #uncf #UNITE2025 #hbcu #AForgottenMigration UNC Press Sonya Bonczek

Vote for ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE by Chris Cooper and THE FABULOUS ORDINARY by Georgeann Eubanks for NC Reads 2026!

I had a wonderful time with Jason doing this podcast last night. Much thanks to him for the invite and opportunity.