It's book release day! So hype! My op-ed for the Los Angeles Times is out too! If you want to know what REFUSAL is all about... here you go! #WeRefuse Wellesley College Seal Press Basic Books This Day In Esoteric Political History latimes.com/opinion/story/…

They're here! Just got my copies of Savings and Trust! I can't wait for readers to learn more about the history of the Freedman's Bank and its enduring influence of Black economic life in America!

Contributing to Black Voices of Appalachia Oral History Project was one of my life’s proudest achievements. As folks pick up the pieces down in WNC and East TN after Helene, my heart is especially with those I worked and built community with down there. nps.gov/podcasts/black…

I’m reading this amazing book by Dr. Crystal Sanders in preparation for her book talk this Thursday! Please join us if you’re in Baltimore. The link is below 📚

Great Migrations: A People On The Move, my latest history series, examines African American migration in the 20th and 21st centuries, highlighting resilience and the search for freedom. #GreatMigrationsPBS premieres January 28, 2025 at 9/8c on PBS! youtube.com/watch?v=bV9ZSF…

When entities are privatized not only do they become for profit but they are not obligated to serve everyone. So every child would not be entitled to an education. That creates permanent underclass.

Adds to their end goal of rolling back child labor laws. The kids that can’t be educated will enter the workforce earlier

Defunding public education is going to have a horrible impact on the next generation who will not have the same access to develop the skills they need to be successful. The cruelty is the point.

Another giant has fallen.  Our dear comrade Rev. Nelson Johnson (1943-2025), revolutionary, Greensboro massacre survivor, pastor, visionary passed away on Sunday. Johnson was founder of the Beloved Community Center and also in 2006 the Southern Faith, Labor & Community Alliance

We mourn the loss of Rev. Nelson Johnson, of Beloved Community Center. We were fortunate enough to witness his love, selflessness and commitment to justice and unity firsthand.  His lifelong dedication to this work helped make this state a better place for us all.

Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition Cedric Robinson proposed that the Black radical tradition was necessitated into existence by “racial capitalism.” daily.jstor.org/cedric-robinso…

The cover of my forthcoming book by UNC Press. I'm glad this story (and the character-driven stories in the book) on 1960s and 1970s high school student activism will get out to the wider world.

And the benefit is that one day you too will need something. And people will bend, make ways, be annoyed and be inconvenienced to make sure you have it.

Black students will be disproportionately impacted by this attack on the Department of Education. Generations of racial redlining has left their districts underfunded, making them especially dependent on supplemental federal funding. Prime example of systemic racism

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

Historically, a federal department of education is the only thing that has kept states from turning back the clock in the segregation of schools and discrimination against people with disabilities. Without it, we all lose. Your children and everyone’s children lose.

pulls me from the brink every time…

Please read about the 1952 McCarran Walter Act in Black Scare/Red Scare. This is not a shameless plug. This is a call for political education that prepares us for this moment—to resist, fight, upend…

Dr. Alexandria Russell's new book 'Black Women Legacies' is being celebrated! The book explores the public history sites of Modjeska Simkins, Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Barber, Harriet Tubman, and many others. It includes my work and that of other Black women in preservation.