I started this thread yesterday on Coretta Scott King for her 99th birthday. Every day I'll continue it. “Not enough attention has been focused on the roles that women have played in the struggle." she told a reporter in 1966, "Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement.”

Starting with my favorite from a 1968 welfare rights march, Coretta Scott King stressed, “I must remind you that starving a child is violence….Punishing a mother & her family is violence….Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”

“I am made to sound like an attachment to a vacuum cleaner,” CSK explained, “the wife of Martin, then the widow…all of which I was proud to be. But I was never just a wife, nor a widow. I was always more than a label.” So every day for the next year, I’m going to post a quote or fact about her.

Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

Against Despair | A Collective Reading Series for Collective Practice Join us for a reading series on and with “Let this Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care” by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. 1st session on 28 May! 🔗 www.southsouthmovement.org/events/again...

feels a lot like we're building toward a Summer Of Finding Out

I haven't seen the actual executive budget but it sounds like the Mayor is holding the budget flat. So maybe close to the FY26 actual budget. So no actual increase in funding. Not close to 0.5% and perhaps not keeping up with inflation either. Once we see the actual budget, we'll see what's what.

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

There were no fatalities after powerful storms brought tornadoes to at least five Mississippi counties, destroying 500 homes and injuring 17 people.

“Critically, Cavanaugh confirmed that they did not examine any of the applications or underlying materials that had been submitted when applying for the grants or any materials generated by NEH staff when those applications were reviewed.” DIDN’T DO THE READING AGAIN

Operation Metro Surge's impact in the Twin Cities can still be felt three months after it ended. Many immigrants are at risk of losing homes and businesses, and some are dealing with mental health challenges.

i am so excited for yall to read this book!

I spoke with Gerrick Kennedy, Brandy’s co-writer, on their book Phases and his friendship with the R&B legend www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

omg 🥹❤️

speaking of academic folks boycotting the U.S., over 2,000 mathematicians are petitioning the International Mathematics Union to move its annual conference outside the United States this year over their immigration policies and war in Iran. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Wow, I'm floored. This documentary looks incredible and shares the same essential thesis as my video, but with higher production value and more interviews with experts, including my guest in the video, @xriskology.bsky.social. Can't wait to see it.

i defended my diss(ertation) track 13 years ago today. time flies. but we been workin. and still learning. grateful.

We need to talk about Steph Curry Y’all. New Unruly Subjects! Steph Curry, Israeli tech, & the politics of sports-washing. Chenjerai talks w/ Dave Zirin & Demetrius Noble about how star power gets used to normalize war, occupation, & profit. Wherever you get podcasts. pod.link/1849696769/e...

in 2018 i published an essay with npr music about kanye and gospel music. but also about the problem of celebrity and the refusal to reckon with empire. sadly, every single move he’s made since this essay has only intensified its truth. www.npr.org/2019/10/23/7...

Eid Mubarak to everyone...except those profiting off of Sudanese, Palestinian, Congolese, Haitian and Indigenous (and all other oppressed people's) death and destruction. May this year bring you ruin and may your wealth be redistributed to those you stole from.

cover reveal for FROM INFINITE WORLD … very grateful for the design team and everyone at @w.w.norton! also, i am so very grateful for the generous and kind blurbs from imani perry, deesha philyaw and sarah schulman! preorder today!

was on the black studies podcast. happy for the invitation. i have no idea what i said even though i’m pretty sure i talked about black studies, being from east orange, art, religion, pentecostalism, queerness? lol check it out! thanks John Drabinski for the invitation and conversation!

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

If your ticked off about corporate homeownership, wait til I tell you about the impact of restrictive zoning and building codes on reducing housing supply and driving up costs in a manner than makes housing a lucrative investment.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

i just showed my students some of The Apostle two weeks ago. so so so good. RIP.

FROM INFINITE WORLD: The Sound of the Hammond Organ and the Tragedy of AIDS in the Black Church — description

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

"owners of residential buildings pay most of their rent earnings not on maintenance or operations, but to service their debts to their creditors...they borrowed too much to buy...based on an expectation that rents would rise faster than they actually did." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

This is indeed broadly true of rent-stabilized landlords in NYC when they lobby against things like rent freezes or low proposed annual increases. “Rising costs” in general audience stories about this almost always describe those as, like, maintenance or wages. But it’s mostly debt-servicing.

*coughs. loudly.* 🤧 preorder (if you feel so moved) from your favorite local bookstore. i don’t live in philly but i do uncle bobbie’s for my books … ! (bookshop.org/p/books/from...) cover reveal soon. 🤭

Nice, the amazing @ashoncrawley.bsky.social's upcoming book, "From Infinite World: The Sound of the Hammond Organ and the Tragedy of AIDS in the Black Church" is up for preorder. bookshop.org/p/books/from...

I wonder if Columbia & all the rest have regrets? 🎁

they are so close to figuring out the normies hate them, so incredibly close

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

When people say genAI is "inevitable" they are literally repeating desperate marketing lies by the people who profit from that lie and that is all they are doing.

the stylist’s

When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.

I'm re-listening to @thislynne.bsky.social's stunning podcast, *When We All Get to Heaven* to choose an episode for a spring course. A difficult choice! www.heavenpodcast.org

800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school. Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

at no point in this headline did i know what would happen next