Everything is just too much. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Agreed!

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Just wait until they abolish birthright citizenship. 🤦🏾‍♂️ This Court is compromised!!

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period. Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

Such a beautiful day in Oklahoma. Tough to make this trip to the library to write, especially after a good plate of griot and diri djon djon! And they never give you enough pikliz!🤬🤬

Houston-area politics is looking decidedly old. Mayor John Whitmire, age 76, already announced he’s running for reelection in 2028. Annise Parker, the former mayor and current frontrunner to replace Lina Hidalgo as Harris County Judge, is 69. The median age of its city council is roughly 55.

Carter G. Woodson “believed that if he didn’t document the chronicles of Black people and people from the African diaspora, if he didn’t write this record, that Black people wouldn’t be acknowledged with their humanity” (Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State Uni) www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

“Low enrollment“ is always a bad argument (tho one that many humanists buy into in worries about “declining” majors) but it’s a particular sham at a research university. These are vital, active research fields that produce important knowledge, which is why research universities must support them.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

The American people are systematically deluded about their own country. We have worse health outcomes, more shootings, more people in prison, less vacation, less paid time off, less parental leave, higher childcare costs, higher infant mortality, lower social trust ... on & on & on.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH Jam Session 🎧✊🏾✨ — happening NOW ‼️ Come vibe out with us, click here to join 👉🏾 share.stationhead.com/m7435a2tz6qd

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Audley Moore, “Queen Mother” of Black Nationalism and a power in US Black radical politics for more than seven decades, are finally given their due in this compelling, deeply researched biography. SOLID A 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/quee...

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:

My book is available for pre-order! Get your copy here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

“I am somebody!” I grew up obsessed with the sound of Black orators whose voices alone felt like they could open heaven, even as they fought to help Black folks find peace here on earth. Knowing how much Jesse Jackson loved our people taught me to love and struggle for us too. A true legend.

Reverend Jesse Jackson was one of America’s greatest patriots. He spent his life summoning all of us to fulfill the promise of America and building the coalitions to make that promise real.

Acclaimed artist Betye Saar is 99 years old. She turns 100 in July. #ArtSky #BlackSky #BHM

We love to see this here! Read Dr. Jermaine Thibodeax's essay--with Dean Daina Ramey Berry in the Colored Conventions edited collection! uncpress.org/978146965426...

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day. Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

Doing Douglass Day transcribing with my students! Good trouble! #DouglassDay #ColoredConventions 💪🏾💪🏾 www.DouglassDay.org

“You cannot tell the story of American culture, innovation, music, art, and food without Black Americans because they are woven into every thread of the national narrative.” — Angela Val, president and CEO of Visit Philly.

Today, February 7, 2026, is officially the 100th anniversary of Negro History Week and the 50th anniversary of Black History Month. Carter G Woodson purposely started Negro History Week on February 7th so that it would end on February 14th, which is Frederick Douglass's birthday

Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mother Bethel is the oldest independent Christian denomination founded by Black people and it was founded at 6th and Lombard Streets as a reaction to white supremacy.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

“My extraordinary great-great-grandfather obtained his liberty at some point before the Civil War,” Eugene Robinson writes. But America has erased the history of Black men like Henry Fordham. Robinson was determined to find out the truth:

SHE GOT GAME Yeah Booyyyeeee she’s got it,!! www.reuters.com/sports/publi...

The history of prison uprisings in the US feels like a very timely topic right now!

Black educators have always done more than teach. We carry history, culture, and responsibility in systems not built for us. This BHM, I am highlighting Black educators making history right now. In classrooms. In schools. In communities. If you are a Black educator, your work matters. We see you.

Rest in peace to a Houston Hip-Hop legend, Michael ‘5000’ Watts, founder of Swishahouse Records. 🙏🏾

Jay-Z: *appears in the Epstein files* Solange:

If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools. I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.” Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.

Subjects of The Alabama Solution have led protests for years, using cell phones to expose brutality and forced labor.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

"Like other historians have made clear, post-World War II civil rights victories in sports depended on the earlier heroic, sustained efforts of athletes and sport entrepreneurs like Butler." The Q&A for SOL BUTLER by @[email protected] is now live! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/qa...

I always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”

I hate to predict this, but I feel it in my bones. It will get worse. Someone else will be executed on camera. The protests will grow violent. He’ll evoke the Insurrection Act. More protests. He'll move into more cities. More executions by ICE. More violence. He’ll announce midterms are cancelled.

"I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did." Rest in power, Ms. Claudette Colvin. The fight for equality continues. ❤️

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Sadly, no surprises here. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Maduro indictment www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.