Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

Snippet from CU Office of the President "Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of African American Studies, has been appointed University Professor—the highest academic distinction Columbia confers on our own faculty." Congratulations🎉

About half of all births are covered by Medicaid. Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid. More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid. So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.

Breaking News: The Trump administration abruptly walked back its cancellation of more than 1,000 visas held by international students.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

Cornel West: Republicans like my friend Ron DeSantis just want to restore classical education Republicans: Plato is DEI

they snatched these two men inside the courthouse. they were not wearing uniforms. they had no badges. they had no warrant. they’re just abducting people.

cannot be said enough how much these people genuinely hate your freedom to live your life as you choose. newrepublic.com/post/194212/...

House Speaker Hall: Bill seeking to ban virtually all abortions in NC will not advance #ncpol www.wunc.org/2025-04-08/h...

Thankful for all the art makers past and present.

“The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.” h/t ‪lostvagus.bsky.social‬

Historians, if you have undergraduates studying Black History in the c18 & c19, please encourage them to apply for a summer fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. I am extending the deadline. librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

So we’re gonna just let Rep. Green walk out by himself? SMH

As one of the few women to lead the NAACP, Hazel Dukes has steadfastly advocated for #equality, dedicated to uplifting her community & fighting for #votingrights, economic development, education and fair housing. The SPLC mourns the loss of such a trailblazer. Rest in power, Hazel ❤️ bit.ly/4brerGT

“It’s a digital coup. An information coup… for more than a decade we have been targets of hybrid warfare… But this now takes it to the next level. It facilitates a concentration of wealth and power - because data is power - of a kind the world has never seen before.”

“I don't have another reference point for a private individual coming in, infiltrating, trying to turn government to the benefit of his businesses and locking out and federal employees. It is a coup. I'm a historian of coups, and I would also use that word.”

One Day Economic Boycott was a start. Change your daily shopping habits. Boycott, shun, protest Amazon, Whole Foods, Meta, Tesla. When you’re in groups, insist they not spend common funds on these corps in any way. Support local merchants and growers.

"The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a medievalist of color for research and travel. The award may be used to visit archives, attend conferences, or to facilitate writing and research." DUE 15 FEB More on award & Greene: www.medievalacademy.org/page/GreeneA...

RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences. When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.

The California DoE is legally correct and tbh it's not a close call imo.

If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

If you have time today please reach out to your senators to urge them to vote against RFK jr. Here’s a template to make this easier.

“Remember that opposition can be passed down across generations even when outward signs would suggest accommodation and acclimation.” Thank you Tiya Miles open.substack.com/pub/tiyamile...

If you're a young trans person struggling to cope with the Trump administration's actions and statements, you're not alone. Below is a list of resources and organizations that can support you

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

“Monstrous work: the work of Black people for Black people, work that attempts to foster and provide healthy choices, second chances, access to futures. Caring for the lives and living of Black people has never been legitimate in the eyes of the state” -Eve Dunbar

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

BIG NEWS ALERT: Please come to the BLACK PHILADELPHIA Feb 20-22, 2025 that I am co-organizing with 1838 Black Metropolis & McNeil Center at Penn. A brilliant lineup of scholars, thinkers and writers are presenting! librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

Reflecting on this again: “The study of history is a collective and cooperative endeavor, not a competition for personal academic eminence.” —David Montgomery Grateful for generous colleagues that made the conference vibrant with thoughtful engagement.

What a joy to work with these brilliant scholars #AHA25 #NewDirections

Shannon Eaves, there is something intellectual/scholarly about survival. Taking Black women's ideas seriously #AHA25 #NewDirections

Crystal Moten, to what ends and why are Black women engaged in Black heritage making and public history? Can historiography hold the breadth of work that Black women public historians do? #AHA25 #NewDirections

Brandi Brimmer foregrounding Black women's relationship to the state and political cultures. Invoking Elsa Barkley Brown and Tera Hunter #AHA25 #NewDirections

Arielle Rochelin contemplating Black women's missional politics in Malawi and the Congo #AHA25 #NewDirections

Ashley Preston asking us what Black clubwomen can tell us about how to survive repressive regimes. How they laid the foundations for the modern Civil Rights movement #AHA25 #NewDirections

Crystal Moten is amplifying the labor of Black women public historians and the absence of their contributions in the historiography #AHA25 #NewDirections

Join us today at 3:30 in Gramercy West, Hilton #AHA25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

(free) registration for the 18th annual feminist theory workshop (run by @dukegsfs.bsky.social) is open. Mar 21-22, 2025 at Duke. Keynote speakers: Nicole Fleetwood, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Sophie Lewis, and Linda Zerilli. Hope to see you there! gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/18th-annual-...

The American Medical Association featured me on their Ethics Podcast this month. If you haven’t read my book, but are interested in it, it’s a good synopsis of the major arguments. It’s also worth .5 CME credit, edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-journal-...

Sitting with beautiful work from Tracy Smith: “My error was in exercising a freedom I did not, in reality, possess. For in reality, I am not Free but rather Freed, a guest in the places-we might just as easily call them institutions-where freedom is professed.”

“The study of history is a collective and cooperative endeavor, not a competition for personal academic eminence.” —David Montgomery www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.