@chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.org takes on "intellectual diversity" centers. End game? Republican politicians control the content of classes students take...all in the name of "intellectual diversity" www.instagram.com/reels/DZ_V8o...

“This is essentially legislatively directed hiring at a university. It’s basically setting up political loyalty for tenure.”

Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky

All nine perspectives here are valuable and worth reflecting on, but the ones I find most useful to NYC's Left in this moment are those of @prisonculture.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, and Fahd Ahmed.

Our new episode ... goes in, if we say so ourselves. What's the central structural problem with America's news media? The 20th century fight over the nature of the media and whom it would serve. @chenjerai.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @prx.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I'm really enjoying "The News," Season 8 of @sceneonradio.bsky.social. Hosted by John Biewen and @chenjerai.bsky.social, it examines the growth of news deserts, challenges our assumptions about media bias, and looks at alternatives to the dominant profit-driven model that dominates the US press.

Don't sleep on @sceneonradio.bsky.social podcast if you want to understand how systems are working, and failing, in this moment. All the seasons are great, but if you're in media, entertainment, game design, anything that's being squeezed dry by profit motive, this season is especially illuminating

Thank you for listening and amplifying! @chenjerai.bsky.social @prx.org @dianehodson.bsky.social

In the Trump era, journalists debate how to report the truth without being accused of "taking a side." Is that even the right question? The early history of the news offers lessons. Scene on Radio: The News, Episode 5, is out! (Link👇) @chenjerai.bsky.social @prx.org @victorpickard.bsky.social

New episode of Unruly Subjects!Daniel Boguslaw explains how tech corporations and law enforcement are framing the fast-growing resistance to AI and data centers as “extremism”—and how organizers are fighting back against the attempt to label them security threats. youtube.com/shorts/cqTH8...

Sign on to fight back for the fired six faculty at VSU: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

For our new ep we asked for an analysis of Scene on Radio's "biases" from the company that puts out that Media Bias Chart. We then return the favor, examining the examiner. It all leads to revealing insights into the muddled debates about journalistic bias. @chenjerai.bsky.social @prx.org (link👇)

So good! So delighted to hear you back in the co-host seat!

Trailer for Scene on Radio Season 8: The News LFG! Episodes 1-3 out now wherever you get podcasts! youtu.be/he9vXFUcvZw

This is one of the oldest functions of policing deciding which families are protected and which ones get torn apart 👇🏿👇🏿 youtube.com/shorts/FXIPH...

Excited to announce new confirmed guest speakers for the AAUP Higher Ed Summit this week in Chicago! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏻👊🏿 @rweingarten.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social @stacydavisgates.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social #AAUP2026

We're bringing our launch party series to D.C. with the help of our friends at @51st.news! Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @chenjerai.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 30 to celebrate Hammer & Hope's summer issue. Become a member today to get RSVP details on June 10. ☀️

Great to work with @alletson.bsky.social and the brilliant folks at Reveal on this -- it's a taste of our new season, The News. @chenjerai.bsky.social @prx.org

In Ep 3 of The News: What about that long-running claim of a liberal/left news media? True story or successful propaganda campaign? Why does it matter? We take a fresh look, with receipts and experts like @peterbeinart.bsky.social, Michael Massing, and others. @chenjerai.bsky.social @prx.org 👇

#tdih 1863, Combahee River Raid co-led by Harriet Tubman, freed nearly 800 people from slavery & destroyed Confederate supplies. ⬇️: links to Uncivil “The Raid” podcast with @chenjerai.bsky.social; @blackpastonline.bsky.social; lesson on abolitionists; books by Dunbar & Fields-Black; & more 🧵

You already know!!💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🇵🇸🇵🇸 🇸🇩🇸🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

The summer issue of Hammer & Hope lands later this month, and we want to celebrate with you! Mark your calendars for launch parties — hosted by @chenjerai.bsky.social and @keeanga.bsky.social — in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Become a member today to receive RSVP information this Friday, June 5. ☀️

NEW EP of Unruly Subjects! @Astra & Saul Levin join me to break down why the fight over data centers is bigger than we think 
I we open a letter from Delaney Hall in Newark, where ICE detainees launched a hunger strike Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... youtube.com/shorts/g1OND...

LOL at "no shade to pet groomers" literally shaving doggo feet as I listen to episode 2 @chenjerai.bsky.social et al.

To be in conversation with one of the nation's great storytellers who is also an accomplished union builder was nothing short of ideal Full stream is available to watch. Gratitude to @chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.org @haymarketbooks.org @sununion.org www.youtube.com/live/7JnkGf9...

And it's so good! Y'all do incredible work.

Tribeca is in its 25th year (year 6 for audio!) What makes the podcast lineup feel so intimate at a celeb-entwined fest? I spoke w/ head of podcasts @davygardner.bsky.social plus fest alums @nicholehill.bsky.social , @chenjerai.bsky.social & more for @goodtape.com about what makes Tribeca special.

Good news y’all 😉 Scene in Radio is back!

New @sceneonradio.bsky.social FINALLY. And @chenjerai.bsky.social is back. OMFG. I’m very happy about thisssssssss.

After 18 months of work, we dropped eps 1 and 2 of our new season, The News. We think this project is making some real interventions, as @chenjerai.bsky.social likes to say, into the scattered and confused debates about "the media." Check it! @dannagal.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Happening now! (some tech difficulties but great) Unions of Our Own from with Daniel Gross hosted by @chenjerai.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jnk...

This post has been flagged for extreme cringe 😬 @chenjerai.bsky.social @andrewti.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social #russellbrand #thedailyzeitgeist #piersmorgan #cancelled

Unions of Our Own Join @dgorganize.bsky.social for a conversation with @chenjerai.bsky.social about how to tackle problems in the workplace and how to agitate to win change, hosted with @aaup.org and @sununion.org Tuesday, May 26th at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to join:

The rank & file organizing exemplified by @chenjerai.bsky.social and his comrades is just the kind of movement Unions of Our Own seeks to foster Gratitude @aaup.org @sununion.org @haymarketbooks.org for putting it on Thrilled for this, registration is open events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! This ep is a deep dive into hip-hop, power, politics, & resistance. Featuring A.D. Carson on his new book and Afroman, + RodStarz of Rebel Diaz on political education, organizing, and hip-hop as infrastructure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... youtube.com/shorts/JdCwz...

This weekend, past and present converge. The Lucas Plan turns 50. The British General Strike turns 100. And Zohran Mamdani addressed the May Day crowd. The first city mayor to do so the since Fiorello LaGuardia. I watched and wrote. Why do I keep returning to history? @chenjerai.bsky.social

On the latest episode of Unruly Subjects with @chenjerai.bsky.social, the host (and PhD alum) talks with labor leaders, including Communication faculty and AAUP President Todd Wolfson. www.linkedin.com/posts/chenje...

HAPPY MAY DAY! A little inspiration for today’s actions: Check out this episode of Unruly Subjects with AAUP Council member & NYU professor Chenjerai Kumanyika: “Getting Unruly on May Day: Education Workers, Labor Power, & the Fight Ahead." @chenjerai.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Who got those divine invites?

Check out this episode of Unruly Subjects with Chenjerai Kumanyika, "Getting Unruly on May Day: Education Workers, Labor Power, and the Fight Ahead." @chenjerai.bsky.social

New Unruly Subjects in your Feed!! youtu.be/vg-VUq65akA?...

NEW UNRULY SUBJECTS! How can we defeat authoritarianism? I talked with Mikyung Ryu of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions about South Korea’s fight against martial law, the role of labor, and what movements in the U.S. can learn from it. tinyurl.com/7rfaefd9 youtube.com/shorts/OUU7s...

Trump’s AI National Policy Framework: An Attack on States’ Rights? “Trump’s attempt to force unregulated AI down the throats of the entire United States is not only on the wrong side of history and democracy, it’s on the wrong side of a growing cauldron of popular rage.” @chenjerai.bsky.social

Made this exact point talking to @chenjerai.bsky.social on his podcast. The brand of shackles ICE Air uses was literally founded by the guy who invented the shackles for slave coffles. unrulysubjects.buzzsprout.com/2518143/epis...

NEW EP OF UNRULY SUBJECTS! How can we defeat authoritarianism? This week we talk to someone did it I spoke w/ Mikyung Ryu of the KCTU about South Korea’s 2024 martial law crisis, the union-led response, the general strike, & what folks in the U.S. might learn 👇🏿 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

Big fan of Scene On !!! Can’t wait!

"[T]he language [of Intro 175B] is vague. And when language is vague, that leaves the decision in the hands of the police. And we know that they too often decide to take that peaceful protest, and free speech as actually some kind of threat." — @chenjerai.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtnq...

Thrilled that the latest season of Scene on Radio, The News, is an official Tribeca Audio selection. Honored to be back collaborating with John Biewen, alongside an incredible team including Diane Hodson, Arlene Arevalo, and support from Type C. Can’t wait for y’all to hear it!

Thrilled that our upcoming season, The News, is an Official Selection at Tribeca! Launching late May, Season 8 brings back the great @chenjerai.bsky.social as co-host. We'll explore what's *really* wrong with the media, and how that crisis relates to the other deep problems we keep failing to solve.

Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear. With @mlk50.com