A complete and total capitulation of an institution, a brand, the commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and dignity. This is unimaginably terrible. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

Congratulations to the Journal of Africana Religions on @ahmadgreene.com's appointment as Managing Editor. The journal and field are fortunate to have such a stellar scholar involved in this work.

CONGRATULATIONS, FRIEND! @ahmadgreene.com 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Congratulations to @ahmadgreene.com and the Journal of Africana Religions on this great match. If you're a scholar of Africana Religions, please submit your work: africanareligions.org/announcements/.

A reminder.

Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes (@ahmadgreene.com), Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies, is the new Managing Editor of the Journal of Africana Religions, a leading publication on African and African Diasporic religious traditions. Read more: bit.ly/4lZG7qq

The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!

I love—em-dashes.

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

📍 DC

did you know how much religion shaped the Stonewall uprising? Read Ahmad Greene-Hayes’ stellar article on Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera in the inaugural issue of *QTR: A Journal of Trans & Queer Studies in Religion*! @ahmadgreene.com @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...

Our summer reading book sale is still on today and tomorrow! Use code (or say to our bookseller irl) "SUMMERREADS" at checkout to get 20% off all books! Let us know in the comments what you're reading this summer 📚 🌞 #SummerReading #BookSale #RedEmmas

Please join me tomorrow in Baltimore at @redemmas.org where I'll be in conversation with Dr. @gaylewald.bsky.social about my new book! redemmas.org/events/dr-ah...

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

So great to read @mpgphd.bsky.social's conversation with @ahmadgreene.com about his new book, *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which is a game-changer. #AfAmReligion

senior editor @mpgphd.bsky.social talks underworlding and Zora Neale Hurston with the brilliant @ahmadgreene.com in the latest edition of Phoning It In! religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...

had an amazing time learning more about @ahmadgreene.com's gorgeous new book! religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...

I’ll be in DC next Tuesday to co-host @mirrormemoirs.bsky.social ‘s film screening with our DC-based board members @queenadesuyi.bsky.social @ahmadgreene.com @its-mbwende.bsky.social at @festivalcenter.bsky.social - I hope to see our DMV community members there!

Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social research fellow @ahmadgreene.com on *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which will be published by the University of Chicago Press on May 6. The book is shipping now.

sitting with @ahmadgreene.com's _Underworld Work_ this morning and just what a treat y'all need this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I join the happy recipients of @ahmadgreene.com’s #underworldwork!

In the authoritarian year of 2025, I desperately want adults to be okay with me or anyone else not enjoying something that they enjoy. Amen.

Reading @ahmadgreene.com & Laura Helton this week in our Sacred Geographies course! We’ll focus on archives and collecting as forms of making/claiming/narrating/critiquing/embodying “the sacred.” Next week we visit Chi History Museum to engage archives & collections (& exhibits!) in person.

Everyone acted they asses off.

Natasha Rothwell Covers The New York Times Culture Pages

You CANNOT financial literacy your way out of poverty. Poor ppl are financially literate. The system is just designed to keep their wages low and keep them poor by making others rich. A poor person enjoying uber eats ONCE a month to feel like they’re human is not the reason they’re poor. Stop.

The legendary Roberta Flack, who sang “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," “Killing Me Softly," "The Closer I Get to You," "Feel Like Making Love," and "Where Is The Love," has died at 88.

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

let me hit this gym. 💪🏾

it is a new day.

Sometimes you don’t even know you’ve fallen into depression until you’re in it.

Joy Reid’s evening news show on MSNBC is reportedly being canceled in a major shake-up

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

I forgot that I had an account for a minute but greetings and salutations 🤭👋🏾

taking a break from doom scrolling about the president to doom scroll about aviation safety

Stay informed but protect your peace! 🫶🏾

whew

up way past my bedtime 🫠

Please, please I beg you: In your coverage of immigration raids at schools especially: ensure your reporting does not put these same vulnerable communities at risk through your photographs and videos. They’re going to use those same images to identify people.

there is just too much going on

I know one thing I’m not gon’ let this chaotic news cycle run me ragged.

Be patient with yourself 🤍

Mood

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

Hey kids, remember to ask the question for clarity instead of assuming 🫶🏾

At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.

Are people “secretive” or are you deep in business you don’t belong in?

Disassociation all the way