In honor of today's anniversary of her acquittal, I am re-sharing a piece I wrote in my newsletter a couple of years ago about the effort to bail Angela Davis out of jail: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

This Saturday!

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Hope is generated through action.” Abolitionist organizer and author @prisonculture.bsky.social offers a letter to young organizers living through crisis, despair and uncertainty — and argues for hope as a daily discipline.

Baltimore, MD ✨ Saturday, May 30 Dr. Ashley D. Farmer in conversation with Dr. Minkah Makalani talking about Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore ⏰ 7 pm @ Red Emma’s Bookstore RSVP: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

"Commands unquestioned respect." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social & @pantheonbooks.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

AUSTIN, TX! Come celebrate Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness by Ashanté M. Reese tonight, Wednesday April 15 at 7pm, at Book People. I’ll be in conversation with her! www.blackgathering.net/events/austi...

I would like to uplift and remind all of us that people across the country are organizing against detention and are fighting the warehouse concentration camps. You can get connected to the work by joining a mass call on 4/14 - www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Callie House (1861 - 1928) co-founded the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Assoc. which, at its height, had almost 300,000 members. Local chapters emerged across the country and used monthly dues to take care of those who were sick or disabled and cover members’ burial expenses.

It's the last day of Women's History Month, so we can do a two-fer. It was March 31, 1968 when the Malcolm X Society declared independence from the United States. At this midst of this movement was Queen Mother Audley Moore who was the mother of the movement The Republic of New Afrika was born

Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social, author of "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore." Join us on April 9 at 6PM! queenslibrary.org/calendar/lit...

University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war

Our virtual Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers. Learn More about our April guests: Lachi, Ashley D. Farmer, Clare Pollard, Jordyn Taylor, and Natan Last! www.queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea... #NationalPoetryMonth

@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social's 2018 piece engages with the problem of sources for Black women's history: Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

"Initially they had fewer than a dozen people who volunteered as delivery drivers; now they have about 130..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Nonverbal 5-year-old who met Ms. Rachel over Zoom is released from ICE detention His parents, asylum-seekers from Colombia, said their son’s physical & emotional health deteriorated during the weeks they were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

The Cokie Roberts Fellowship jump-started my research for my next book. It supports women's history archival research, the kind of scholarship we really need right now. They are accepting applications for the next cycle by April 15. archivesfoundation.org/cokie-robert...

Dolores Huerta issued a statement following the New York Times’ investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez medium.com/@dolores_hue...

CNN at the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed 9 people, including 5 children: "We're told it was a yogurt factory by the neighbors here." "The children's bodies, we're told, are in pieces and are going to take a while to identify the DNA so that they can actually do a burial."

One, they wanted the content. Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people. Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

I find bookstores incredibly calming and soothing. Luckily for me one of my favorite bookstores, Politics and Prose, is having their member sale this weekend! Very excited about these new books by @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @historianheather.bsky.social and Judith Resnik. All women all March! 🙌🏻

“Weaving together archive, memoir, political speeches, and ethnography, this book is a more than worthy portrait of the Young Lords and their influence in Chicago.“ chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/02/1...

BREAKING: President Trump, in a video message, says "there will likely be more" U.S. service members killed in Iran conflict before it ends.

“Queen Mother” put reparations into political vocabulary & spent a lifetime linking Black liberation in the U.S. to anti-colonial struggles worldwide. @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social talks with @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social about the long, slow build of movement work. inthesetimes.com/article/quee...

The National Park Service began restoring slavery exhibits at the President's House on Thursday, but in the last few weeks Philadelphians made sure the story was told despite the bare walls.

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”

There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state. That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.

Reparations have become a mainstream part of American political debate. One of the movement’s early architects, however, has largely disappeared from popular history. In our Essay of the Week, Robin D. G. Kelley recovers the vision of “Queen Mother” Moore. yalereview.org/article/robi...

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

The newsroom Bezos once poured money into and celebrated as a proud achievement already lost 400 people in the last three years.

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Queen-Mother...

NEW: Queen Mother Audley Moore: Midwife of Black Revolutionary Nationalism with Dr. Ashley D Farmer (@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social) millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/queen-mother...

Sick and wounded patients in Gaza desperate for medical evacuation have pinned their hopes on the promised reopening of the enclave's Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Almost every reason people have for defunding or abolishing ICE is also a reason to defund or abolish the police, yet many people who are rightly calling for action against ICE would never come close to doing to the same for police. But this fight goes beyond just ICE. ICE represents a larger issue.

READ THIS! Excellent overview of Jan 23 by @lfelizleon.bsky.social. These are times of extreme treachery and extreme solidarity, and it's captured here beautifully. "If they think they're going to ship people out in the middle of nowhere, we’re still going to go there and fight for them."

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

This is tomorrow, online and in-person at the library (I’ll be online). Register to get the link !