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Banned Books and Hoop Skirts: The Lost Cause's Last Stand open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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This is fascism

BREAKING: At least 10 people were taken to hospitals following a shooting at a party near Oklahoma City, police say.

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.

Most know that I don’t enjoy getting awards, being honored, or celebrated in any capacity. But I was so pleased to have received the Outstanding Faculty Award from our university’s Black Student Association yesterday! Made my year for sure. Shirt looks wrinkled but my students looked good, though!

They want him. Lawd’a mercy! 🤦🏾‍♂️

Serendipity! First time seeing my Cornell undergraduate advisor since 2004. 🥴 We were both stuck in a long line to collect our OAH badges this morning. Right place, right time, eh?! To memorialize this moment, here’s a photo with the esteemed and eminent historian of early America, Mary Beth Norton!

@oah.org bound!! Feel free to join our roundtable on unfree labor in the American Southwest. I will be discussing sugar and Black convicts in Texas. Come indulge and please buy our newly released book, Capturing Labor!! @utexaspress.bsky.social 💪🏾💪🏾 #OAH2026

It’s here! Capturing Labor is out and ready to be consumed by the masses! Check out my chapter on the forced labor performed by Black convicts in the Texas Sugar Bowl district. Reeks of racial capitalism and gendered violence, eh? utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333457/

It’s official! No turning back. Ready to release my first book to the world: The House that Cane Built: Sugar, Race, and the Gendered Roots of the Texas Prison Plantation System! So grateful to the folks at @columbiaup.bsky.social 💪🏾💪🏾 Stay tuned!

Lawd, teaching Black capitalism today in my Hip-Hop and American Culture course. Restrain my tongue, oh Lord. I shall not drag Brotha Billionaire too harshly, I hope. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤭

Same. Same. As a Houston boy who took semi-annual field trips to NASA, today definitely had me a bit emotional. We can be so much greater than we’ve been lately in America. 🥹

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

Reminder: Tomorrow’s oral argument in Trump v. Barbara will not tell us whether the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship We already know that it does, and we have known it for a long time What it will show, though, is how far gone this Supreme Court is ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

The transatlantic slave trade is the gravest crime against humanity – why the UN declaration matters theconversation.com/the-transatl...

BREAKING: New Mexico jury finds that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp are harmful to children's mental health and orders Meta to pay a $375 million penalty.

So what happens if the Supreme Court strikes down the Voting Rights Act and birthright citizenship this term?

Um, COULD? WTAF

Texas jails aren’t meeting deadlines to free inmates, costing some counties thousands in settlements www.texastribune.org/2026/03/19/t...

Wow.

Harris County commissioners approve $38 million contract renewal to keep outsourcing jail inmates County can continue outsourcing >1,000 inmates to facilities in Beaumont & Louisiana until 2027 in an effort to ease crowding issues at the Houston jail. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

I think I am on the other side of this flu B. The body aches have subsided but this pesky cough remains. I’ll take that, I guess. 🤷🏾‍♂️

One thing I've come to realise is that people don't realise the importance of engaging with African issues in the West. Africa is where the future is. The population is growing. It's a huge market and target for all kinds of people and things and all sorts of technological and political ideas get

This story is terrible but represents another example of the patriarchy on Leftist movements of the 1960s.

State prison ban on hardcovers threatens to close Texas inmate book project The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow hardcover or used books to be mailed to inmates starting next month. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Long Before MAGA’s White Grievance, There Was Bernie Goetz 1984: a white man named Bernie Goetz shot 4 unarmed black youths on a NYC subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that intensified a culture of white grievance & racist vigilantism jacobin.com/2026/03/goet...

A cold during Spring Break is diabolical. 🤦🏾‍♂️🥹

I have seen very few movies this year so I can't really judge the oscars, but one of the movies I did see was Sinners, and its portrayal of the Jim Crow economy is the film's driving force, even more than its supernatural elements www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Great new episode with Tyler D. Parry, discussing the importance of region in African American historical research, the Black southwest, and the expansiveness of Black Studies thinking. Listen here or at your fave stream: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I just hope Michael B. Jordan stays away from Jay Z and that RocNation crowd now. Create your own wave, sir. 🤭🤷🏾‍♂️ #Sinners

I said this months ago but also needing black characters to always be a perfect and positive representation of black people is just as limiting as typecasting them. They should be able to exist as individual characters and not a referendum. Sometimes they’re bad. They should be able to do that.

Still haven’t seen Sinners. But to be fair, I haven’t watched a single movie all 2026. Can’t remember if I watched a movie in 2025. Such a life, huh? 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." -George Orwell's '1984'

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...