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Ashley D. Farmer

@drashleyfarmer

Historian, Professor, Writer. Author. Next 📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25)

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You can still donate to your local PBS Station and the PBS Foundation, they need our funding more than ever now. pbs.org/about/about-pb…

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BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP. apnews.com/article/immigr…

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A couple of months ago, I was asked to write an essay about Edwardian Era Black corsetieres and seamstresses for a production of the play Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage happening at London's Donmar Warehouse Theater. I'm delighted to share that essay in full with you here. 🪡🧵

A couple of months ago, I was asked to write an essay about Edwardian Era Black corsetieres and seamstresses for a production of the play Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage happening at London's Donmar Warehouse Theater. I'm delighted to share that essay in full with you here. 🪡🧵
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In a late night vote, the House approved Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid huffpost.com/entry/us-congr…

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Records show that Maryland officials have known about the existence of this lost cemetery since at least the 1970s. Yet the graves of more than 100 Black children remain abandoned, mostly unmarked and deteriorating in an overgrown forest. Read here: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

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BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says 73 people have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza. apnews.com/article/israel…

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#OnThisDay in 1963, when a National Guardsman poked his bayonet at Gloria Richardson in Cambridge, Maryland, she pushed it away, refusing to back down during protests against racism and inequality. The image of Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee,

#OnThisDay in 1963, when a National Guardsman poked his bayonet at Gloria Richardson in Cambridge, Maryland, she pushed it away, refusing to back down during protests against racism and inequality. The image of Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee,
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people cnn.com/2025/07/22/tec…

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Queen Mother Moore didn’t ask for reform she demanded return. Reparations, repatriation, and self-determination weren’t slogans for her, they were her strategy. This Teach-In is essential study for anyone serious about Black sovereignty. Thanks for this! #ReparationsNOW

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#OnThisDay in 1964, Unita Blackwell became the Issaquena County delegate for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which fought to replace Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. “We had no idea that we were changing the whole

#OnThisDay in 1964, Unita Blackwell became the Issaquena County delegate for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which fought to replace Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. 

“We had no idea that we were changing the whole
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Gerald Horne interviews Eugene Puryear on Harry Haywood, Lenin, Cyril Briggs, Sen Katayama, M. N. Roy, the Scottsboro Boys, and the Black Belt Thesis for KPFK Los Angeles. Forthcoming in the next few weeks. A truly fantastic interview. Stay tuned!

Gerald Horne interviews <a href="/EugenePuryear/">Eugene Puryear</a> on Harry Haywood, Lenin, Cyril Briggs, Sen Katayama, M. N. Roy, the Scottsboro Boys, and the Black Belt Thesis for KPFK Los Angeles. 

Forthcoming in the next few weeks. A truly fantastic interview. Stay tuned!
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Today would’ve been Queen Mother Audley Moore’s birthday. I’ve teamed up with Black Women Radicals to give away two copies of my forthcoming biography. Head over to the photo app to enter.

Today would’ve been Queen Mother Audley Moore’s birthday. I’ve teamed up with Black Women Radicals to give away two copies of my forthcoming biography. Head over to the photo app to enter.
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The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced newrepublic.com/post/198550/is…

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This is horrific. I couldn’t have finished my book without the incredible archives at Amistad. It’s such an irreplaceable source of Black history. An avoidable and unnecessary mess.

This is horrific. I couldn’t have finished my book without the incredible archives at Amistad. It’s such an irreplaceable source of Black history.  An avoidable and unnecessary mess.
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Brown University agreed Wednesday to a $50 million deal with the Trump administration after months of negotiations over its frozen medical and health sciences funding. Read more: abcnews.link/Rsb1vuq

Brown University agreed Wednesday to a $50 million deal with the Trump administration after months of negotiations over its frozen medical and health sciences funding.

Read more: abcnews.link/Rsb1vuq
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BREAKING: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, says it will close down after federal cuts. cbsn.ws/3HcXd5c

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You can virtually watch TCB- The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing film this weekend for $9 via the Blackstar Film Festival this weekend. Make a donation while you’re there too! 🖤 blackstarfest.org/festival/films…