As universities prepare to commemorate “Martin Luther King” Day, often hosting celebrity keynoters and paying them handsome sums of money, let’s not forget King’s fierce commitment to eradicating poverty or that he was killed in Memphis, where he went to march w/garbage workers.

It's a perfect day to listen to the new dawn podcast by Michael Dawson episode on MLK's fight for the Poor People's Campaign stitcher.com/s?eid=66083020…

🎙️⚡️ Amna Akbar appears on this New Dawn episode with Michael Dawson to talk about social movements and the study of capitalism in law classrooms. Check it out on your streaming platform of choice. anchor.fm/new-dawn/episo…

This may not seem like the most dangerous thing we face, but it's one of the warning signs of fascism and...wait for it...genocide. The cult of antiquity & the imposition of monuments to a nation's mythical glorious past precede both of those disasters. nyti.ms/2H0nDob

Does this weird logic apply to anything else? don‘t raise the minimum wage, what will those who worked for low wages before think? Don’t end child labor, what abt all the children before who toiled? no to affordable housing, think of all who have paid for unaffordable housing

Legacies of British Slave-ownership ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

"A Giant Plastics Company Tried to Halt a Juneteenth Ceremony for Buried Slaves.". Another example of murderous and global nature of racial capitalism. truthout.org/articles/a-gia…

First post-Covi-19/uprising Race and Capitalism anchor.fm/new-dawn/episo…

Hi folks finally returning after some health problems. There’s a new New Dawn episode that just dropped with K-Sue Park. Find it here: anchor.fm/new-dawn/episo…

A quote from the NYT: “We have more troops in DC than Afghanistan.” Failed herrenvolk democracy?

So many of us did not survive the Trump era.

Silliness tweet: one of the best film expressions of black joy is the dance off in House Party. I still have good, fun, and scary dreams about an epic house party I hosted in high school.

Also nightmares and regrets about another that didn’t happen because I got busted. At the time I wasn’t fond of parents. They were right. Sigh. (But they didn’t understand fun!)

Here's a link to an excellent new New Dawn podcast on gentrification, neoliberalism, and black urban life and politics. anchor.fm/new-dawn/episo…

Stay tuned, next week we're dropping a special edition of New Dawn featuring an amazing conversation between Boots Riley and Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly who is the Race & Capitalism Project's current postdoctoral fellow.

Here's the link to Part 1 of the Charisse Burden-Stelly/Boots Riley New Dawn episode. anchor.fm/new-dawn/episo…

Here's the link to Part 2 of the Charisse Burden-Stelly/Boots Riley New Dawn episode. anchor.fm/new-dawn/episo…

New Series on Afropessimism on Ideology-Theory-Practice! Check out the first essay by Michael Dawson: ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/against-a…

Thoughts on an Abolitionist University: Freeing Higher Education From Itself x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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