The White House is a national historic landmark, overseen by the National Park Service. Surely there must be some sort of process one needs to follow before tearing down huge chunks of it?

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’

Bom Retiro, São Paulo: where immigration, public health, and the built environment collide 🇧🇷 @emorycollege.bsky.social Prof. Jeff Lesser’s "Living and Dying in São Paulo" (@dukepress.bsky.social) is sharp, human, and #OpenAccess. Read in English: bit.ly/4hby34t Read in Portuguese: bit.ly/43hyjcr

We are setting up at #WHA2025 -- Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest.

A mini bouquet of pink dahlia on a bookshelf with inventory (Dionne Brand), Feeding the Ghosts (Fred D’Aguiar), Blacklife (Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi), The Renunciations (Donika Kelly), Slave Moth (Thalias Moss) and Wilson Harris (Companions of the Day and Night) among others. Some beauty.

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

In non-fiction I'm interested in WHEN TREES TESTIFY: SCIENCE, WISDOM, HISTORY, AND AMERICA’S BLACK BOTANICAL LEGACY by Beronda L. Montgomery. She was recently a Michigan State prof, so I'm partial. #ewgc #booksky

“A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chi...

BREAKING: "Just landed." Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

I am a historian of the early modern Spanish Atlantic world, and my latest book, Republics of Difference, looks at the way religious and racial minorities in Seville and Lima used the tools of constrained self-governance to create their own spaces, laws, and cultures.

Ive sat in on DV response training courses 4 cops & they spent the whole time shooting spitballs at the ceiling, making jokes about abusing their own spouses, arguing w the presenter in a "less a question more a comment" way, & the women bragging they were even harder on hysterical victims than men

What did the everydayness of racial chattel slavery look like beyond enslaving? I explore this question in my talk. Join us!

Remember when I said something nice was coming today? Well: I was asked to write the introduction to the new edition of Toni Morrison’s BELOVED! I’m so honored and happy! Here’s the new cover—that’s my name down at the bottom!!!!

Rod Johnson is a 67-year-old Black military veteran who already suffers from PTSD.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

This was such a delight! Thinking about family and its (il)legibility as essential to politics. Thank you @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for a marvellous paper and @jhowesuk.bsky.social for wonderful response.

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

Sums it up well. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Much of the Internet is becoming unusabe, and we're watching that trend accelerate in real time

I even let my picture be taken, willingly! Those who know me know what a commitment to this project is represented here! Sign up for the book release conversation, me and my pal and colleague Barrye Brown from the Schomburg! Oct 20 7pm EST luma.com/cyxih6zu

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

"The Fire Inside: The Social Justice Imperative at the Heart of African Diaspora Studies" Monday, 10/27/2025 10:00 am - 11:50 am PDT cls.soceco.uci.edu/event/visiti...

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Wonderful projects and a wonderful initiative more like this please!

This is bananas. Just absolutely bonkers.

The endpoint of plenary and unilateral impoundment, like the *immediate* endpoint, is that whoever is exercising the powers of the presidency gets to use federal funding coercively to compel outcomes he doesn’t otherwise have the legal right to compel.

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

We ended class in “Black Atlantic History” today by discussing social death and historical redress. A brilliant student argued that historical redress is insufficient if we don’t attend to Black people’s material circumstances and political exigencies in the present.

Today, we wrap up our summer #AHAPerspectives miniseries on historians' work with the National Park Service! We're finishing with an article by @hngreen.bsky.social, who shares her experiences writing an NPS historic resource study and how politics today will constrain future such work. 🗃️

Friday, Sept. 19, 6:00 pm: I'll be part of “Sailing to Freedom,” a free program sponsored by the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program/College of Charleston – the opening of a new exhibition and a book talk about *Freedom Ship*. Info/register here: calendar.charleston.edu/event/sailin...

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

My teaching emphasizes history as more of a conversation than a debate. That is, I want students to understand how historians craft their interpretations of the past by responding to how others have interpreted it. Seldom does that mean just taking a contrary position on a fixed question.

If you’re white and know Spanish, speak it in public even when random. If you’re a business owner and not an immigrant, normalize playing music in Spanish. Use you’re privilege to #resist

Partner paid $11 today for one honey saffron latte w. oat milk (not including tip)

This is totally unacceptable.

"Multiple historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are on lockdown after receiving threats, including Alabama State University, Virginia State University, Hampton University in Virginia, Southern University in Louisiana, and Clark Atlanta University in Georgia." abc13.com/post/multipl...

Did any of these people actually read or listen to what Kirk actually said or did? I don’t know how you can portray someone who created a “professor watchlist” as a free speech champion or how someone who said vile things about minorities and immigrants was being civil.

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 10:30 am, I'll give a talk/workshop at Johns Hopkins entitled "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." The event is sponsored by the Tidewater Initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Join us! sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

Today, and most days for a very long while, was societally pained. I was cheered to be sent this video of the unpacking of my beautiful little book. It can feel frivolous to be cheered lately, but onward! [onward to buy my book on oct 14 please]

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.