This is terrific news. Let’s help Stevie have a softer landing.

Philly, join us, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, and karim at the Blackwell Regional Library to celebrate MY CITY NEED SOMETHING: PORTRAITS AND PROSE FOR BLACK EXISTENCE! Saturday 2/14 12-2pm We'll be selling copies of the book at a discounted price. See you there Event details: tinyurl.com/2m9at7dh

What Goes Around Comes Around: On Reading the World and Hearing the Word by @justmaybechris.bsky.social agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...

🎚️. SAVE THE DATE. The flier may change but the event won’t. Just to get it out there before we all double booked. February 14, 2026 | 12 - 2pm Blackwell Regional Library 125 S. 52nd St. | FREE Paperback on sale for $18 + tax MORE: lnkd.in/e5XbywCX

“A historiography of a Black Existence that blooms with the care & criticism of its poetry and photography.” —@ill-iterate.com MY CITY NEED SOMETHING: PORTRAITS & PROSE FOR BLACK EXISTENCE by @justmaybechris.bsky.social & Karim Brown hits the shelves next month! Preorder now: buff.ly/l8tXv0M

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🔥 Get ready for My City Need Something, an extraordinary new collaboration between me and karim brown that explores the heart of Black life and the power of urban community. We're offering a 25% discount on preorders — just use code MYCITY25 at checkout! 👉: www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-... 👈

Newsreel’s “films, produced during the political ruptures of the 60s + 70s, may be the closest the US has come to a homegrown revolutionary cinema. In their approach to financing, filming, + distribution, [they] embodied a genuinely counter-hegemonic method that moved beyond revolutnry aesthetics…”

NEW! 🎁 . Here’s a gift from me. Some storytelling for A Gathering Together Literary Journal, with the incredible cover image from Tafari Melisizwe. Helpful framing too for the book to come. Thank you to all who helped it reach the light. READ: agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...

Earlie Hudnall Jr. and the Jack Yates High School Photography Program.

NEW! 🎁 . Here’s a gift from me. Some storytelling for A Gathering Together Literary Journal, with the incredible cover image from Tafari Melisizwe. Helpful framing too for the book to come. Thank you to all who helped it reach the light. READ: agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...

Don’t read my new book if you ain’t ready for this. www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-...

“When I think abt improvisation, I go back to when reading felt fun: like when the photocopies were ordered incorrectly, + I had to flip the reader around to find the other page; or when info was cut off, and I had to figure out what was missing. For me, reading is joyful when there’s a chase.“

“How might someone read one poem as they ascend a staircase + read the same words as a different poem when they descend? How cld different sight lines create nonlinear readings?… A sentence has pockets, holes, escape hatches[: how could] those ?’s cld be translated into an architectural context?”

Tapping my sign again.

Life is short and I want to work with people who do work. That's it.

AKINBODE AKINBIYI.

. @makcapitalism.bsky.social "Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory w/ Christopher R.( @justmaybechris.bsky.social )Rogers | Philadelphia Portal Ep. 2" Sterling( @lbsterlingjo.bsky.social )Johnson, Jared( @jaybeware.bsky.social )Ware #makcapitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfLh...

Was closing tabs & saw this para I so admire, written by @justmaybechris.bsky.social in our new article - purposefully breaking academic form & the 4th wall, inviting in, trusting, validating, organizing...& probably answering a reviewer's Q too. Flowers, friend! citejournal.org/volume-25/is...

Friday at 10 AM ET @justmaybechris.bsky.social joins the Philadelphia Portal (a Philly based media project that @makcapitalism.bsky.social is a part of & currently streams on the MAKC YT channel) We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...

NEW! FREE REPORT DOWNLOAD! Friends of the Tanner House Presents: Making the Tanner House Dream Come True [print version coming soon…] | A reflective report on our 2024-25 neighborhood programming activities | ACCESS: savethetannerhouse.org/forlovetothr...

The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education by Drs. @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and me: citejournal.org/volume-25/is...

Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning by Drs. me, Cherise McBride, and @justmaybechris.bsky.social (also, RIP the bird app & the way we used to connect via SM for this one) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

COMMENTS: Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Thankful Poor. (9/29/2025) READ: medium.com/@damayor/may...

NEW! Our people fought to make space for all our children to learn in-depth about the Black historical struggle through their public education. This effort is a community driven initiative and reminder that we do this work on behalf of them. Join us online October 18. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🙏🏾. Grateful to have been invited into conversation at AAMP next Saturday around one of my favorite films of all time Spook Who Sat By The Door. Come through and hear the stories of how many people wished, sacrificed, and risked to give us this classic.

"Serving as an art school w/ studios, art residency, library, open kitchen, + garden simultaneously, Sertão Negro is more than an institution—it is a holistic school rooted in Black cultural traditions + the spirit of the quilombo, where art, food, housing, + land are the grounds for communal life"

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and @anna-phd.bsky.social write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!

😎. FUNDRAISER PREVIEW EDITIONS ARE HERE! GET YOURS! DEBUT: AUGUST 22 at the FALL ABOLITION SCHOOL MIXER. See slide for details. DONATE NOW VIA GOFUNDME. gofund.me/622d53ae

“We know that [Alexander’s] legacy stands for civil rights,” Rogers said. “It stands for justice, it stands for equity, it stands for democracy, it stands for knowledge. And so, if they are invested in those things, it's definitely surprising to see them sell out...” www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...

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Dionne Brand is one our greatest literary thinkers, and this profile of her is a great read. jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-...

FRESHLY PRESSED. I have new work out. Columns: Black Youth Futures: Experimental Medicine: A Winter Break Reflection on "Me-First" Language Arts Author(s): Christopher R. Rogers Source: English Journal, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2025, p. 82-85 DOI: lnkd.in/eNecy_et DM me for link.

I’m throwing a party w one of my fav people @justmaybechris.bsky.social in a Safer Movements Collective x Chester Gifted Program collab!!! join us Friday, August 1st for MAMAS COOKOUT 👩🏽‍🍳 there will be abolition trivia! a care corner! a kids space by the Philly Childcare Collective! prizes! dancing!

There’s a lot of mutual aid work being done to combat the errors of our government. I spent an afternoon with the Philly Abortion Doula to learn what she’s focusing on rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/16/p...

“We’d want to know what in the hell you say?”

“Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few. Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests.”– June Jordan

💪🏾 Good News today. My first RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE received seed funding today. “Fugitive Poetry Pedagogies for the People” coming soon. Am opportunity to build up Black Philadelphia literary lesson plans and support a generation of local Black poets and writers in the process.

"[Enslaved people] ingeniously employed 'waiting time' + communication in codes, symbols, songs, chants, + other means of [obfuscation]—a social network relying on Afrodiasporic technologies... The past, present, + future were interwoven into a collective memory and aspiration for true liberation."

#MamasBasement is back. This month's benefit partner is Hoops Sessions Chester, a FREE violence prevention program that gives Chester teens the opportunity to not only enjoy open gym but also become part of a team and take part in workouts designed to build skills both on and off the court.

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.” @jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku

Ok, last week of school, let's go!

This the future of retired ball player content. This is it. They found the formula. 🙌🏾

"Poetry is an island that breaks away from the main." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.