Join us next Thursday October 2nd at 6:30 online for a conversation with Jo-Ann Morgan, Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, and Courtney Thorsson for a conversation on Black Arts and the Black freedom struggle: www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-black...

"Yet the history of vagrancy laws shows that they were never about addressing thorny public policy problems like homelessness or crime, but instead about using state power to remove “undesirable” people from our communities." time.com/7315567/vagr...

Actor Sterling Hayden reflecting on naming names to HUAC: "I was a rat, a stoolie, and the names I named of those close friends were blacklisted and deprived of their livelihood." "I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing."

"I don’t think we were as naïve as some folks have suggested. There were uncertainties. I think we had a sense of resolve, and I think it took a lot of courage." Joseph McNeil, Young Spark in a Civil Rights Battle, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

The right hates for white people to know Black history, because it completely upends, not just whitewashed curriculum, but our families’ stories of self-help, hard work, and meritocracy. Black history makes us confront the fact that those stories are partial at best and deeply distorted.

Reposting so it is less “quietly” done

In the archives looking at legal filings regarding Red Squads. And boy howdy am I getting past and present confused in my brain.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

on the falsehood of PBS / NPR’s demise spreading faster than the truth, digital liberalism shows its teeth: accepting defeat in mourning instead of taking responsibility for what could be if we worked towards it…

"The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it — at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way societies change."

“Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit. I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

Yesterday, July 31 -- Faculty & staff protested the firing of four @brooklyncollege.bsky.social faculty members in violation of their academic freedom & as retaliation for protected first amendment speech. #BCFired4 📸 by @paulfrangipane.bsky.social Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...

Please amplify: Four adjunct women professors were fired from Brooklyn College in June for their pro-Palestine politics—a shameful attempt to appease the bullies of Congress before the Chancellor testified 2 wks ago.Please send a letter calling on CUNY to reinstate them. psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

The Quffa family in Gaza is facing extreme challenges just to survive, and every dollar donated will make a real difference for them. If you're able to support them, please consider clicking the link below to donate or sharing this with others who might be willing to help. gofund.me/d026c139

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

Harrowing ‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison describe abuse www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n...

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Abysmal framing, once again from The NY Times: this is not a “fight” between equals but Trump’s unilateral attack on universities theorized by Chris Rufo and Steven Miler. And wtf: “the administration’s efforts to bring elite universities to heel”?

So…not antisemitism.

One thing PhD school didn’t train me for was how to deal with the flippant ways that male activists in the 1960s — and in oral histories today — can talk so glibly about sexual violence against and harassment of women. Been doing this research for 15 years and I never get used to this part.

Y’all I have three degrees, a book to my name, and I help run a bail fund. And for the life of me, I cannot trace all the various forms of bond and pretrial detention that the state made H Rap Brown suffer through. This is how the state made very good use of our barbaric cash bail system.

“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”

Oh wow, right now you can buy my book with a 60% discount! Head over to @nyupress.bsky.social's website & pick up a copy of Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit! You might as well get a few copies — your cousin wants one, your uncle needs one, your mom asked me for one….

Researching efforts by Rap Brown’s (Jamil al-Amin’s) legal team in 1967, who petitioned SCOTUS to review the bail restrictions placed upon him. They argued such conditions not only violated his 1st and 5th Amendment rights but also constituted preventive detention. Just gonna leave this part here.

Thanks @thenation.com for understanding the importance of learning the actual lessons from Martin and Coretta Scott King for this Juneteenth, how much he is distorted in public discourse, and what they give us for our struggles today: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

"We Southernized Dr. King": Historian Jeanne Theoharis on MLK's Struggle Against Racism in the North

Yes to the fight back, yes to the win!

"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.

The mainstream media has a long, but not distinguished, history of getting social movements wrong at the time. Here's my colleague @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on how the media covered MLK. time.com/7271258/news...

Here's an example of a previous ARTnews report I wrote about Professor @sayburgin.bsky.social's NEH fellowship being cancelled and the funds used to pay for new statues of "American Heroes" in a national sculpture garden: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

News: Four union leaders call for Abrego Garcia's release in new letter to El Salvadoran ambassador. Labor is ramping up its advocacy for this sheet metal worker. "The erosion of rights and due process for immigrants in the US is a direct threat to the rights of all working people."

I’m grateful to reporters like @karenho.bsky.social for drawing attention to the ways the current administration has taken over the NEH, terminated those of us who had contracts, and opted for airbrushed, stuck-in-time “hero” history instead of dynamic, challenging, and truthful history.

Excited to welcome @sayburgin.bsky.social to @redemmas.org this Thursday for a look at the complicated history of white organizing in support of Black self-determination, in conversation with Detroit's own @lkspence.bsky.social redemmas.org/events/say-b...

"It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."

Catch me at the wonderful @redemmas.org at 7pm on Thursday, in conversation with Lester Spence! We’ll be talking Detroit, Black Power, and movement strategy.

PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...

TODAY!

Tomorrow’s the day!!!!!! Wondery+ (@wonderymedia.bsky.social) subscribers can listen to the first 4 episodes of Death County, Pa tomorrow morning. Everyone else will need to wait until April 28 to hear full episodes.

Our @zinnedproject.bsky.social 's (along with @rethinkingschools.bsky.social ) monthly freedom school class is tonight! There is still plenty of time to register. Bring your students your colleagues, and friends to join you! www.zinnedproject.org/news/black-p...

My book, Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit, turns 1-year-old this week! Use this discount code (NYUAU30) to get 30% off when you buy it from @nyupress.bsky.social

Really proud to have a local reporter whose beat is our county jail and who works so hard to expose its lethal conditions. Very thankful to you @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social for creating this podcast.

Must-read just dropped from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com. This is the Coretta Scott King we SHOULD know! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

Judge Crockett had courage and saw that a different judiciary was possible

Come talk about state repression, resistance, and bail with me!

This seems like a good time for faculty to act boldly yet strategically, taking the lead, showing that their campuses can...become major centers of education about Trump’s authoritarianism... www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

#tdih 1857 SCOTUS declared in horrific 💔 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that: "Any person descended from Africans, whether enslaved or free, is not a citizen of the U.S." Lerone Bennett Jr. called it one of the decade's “three ominous developments.” See ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...