"D’Angelo also chafed at the description of his music as simply neo-soul. “I never claimed I do neo-soul,” he said in a Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014. “When I first came out, I used to always say: ‘I do Black music. I make Black music.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Just published an annual review of a field we're calling "The Political Economy of Policing." It highlights great work on the links between police and society's major political/economic institutions. Thanks to my great coauthors Lauren Hagani and Gabe Rojas. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This took my breath

"I know it’s too hot in my prison when the floor is weeping. The walkways are glistening in their own version of sweat upon which we slip, slide and fall."

Thirty-one men at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, positioned their bodies in the shape of the letters “SOS." "The SOS is not an isolated event but a symptom of a greater problem." New from @johnmajoreason.bsky.social the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law:

Give her a break. She needed to order the proper search and rescue outfit for her pictures. That takes time.

Just say no to ICE slate.com/news-and-pol...

Today marks the 11th year since Flint officially had its water source switched to the Flint River. Last year, Keishaun Wade, a Flint resident who works with my lab, wrote about how the Flint Water Crisis was not over. The essay is just as relevant now. theemancipator.org/2024/04/25/t...

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI” Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.

Corporations and the feds say no Diversity Equity but this is acceptable? Y’all ok with this Newman Tractor?

When the reasons your federal grants are rescinded looks sounds like this academic freedom and freedom of speech are both being snuffed out by white supremacy

The contemporary GOP platform is segregationists, and they hope to repeal the entire legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

they are segregationists, attacking a monument to the civil rights heroes that destroyed segregation

Exactly this.

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

Check out @nicolefcarr.bsky.social’s newletter recapping our discussion of The Great Resegregation with @theemancipator.org’s @ibramxk.bsky.social and @amberpayne.bsky.social. This was part of the 24 hour “State of the People” livestream. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

Did not know this was Angie Stone … foundational hip hop … RIP: open.spotify.com/track/1Q0oJ2...

Here we go…

Naiima Khahaifa, a member of Duke University's African & African American Studies Department presents her research at the @black-think-tank.bsky.social's 1st New Faculty Symposium

These folks sound exactly like Jim Crow-era managers who were "personally in favor" of integration but worried about all the ruckus.

I didnt win the Image Award but this lovely article about my being nominated made me smile. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

“Roberta Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness,” the writer and folklorist Julius Lester once observed. “More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is, at times, almost unbearable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/a...

Trust in the press is falling in part becays of this refusal to plainly state what we can all see. This is a Nazi salute. It’s embarassing how much threats from the world’s worst people have cowed the mainstream media.

I don’t know that I have seen anyone consolidate power this quickly. Ive read about it, but havent seen it! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

See y’all next week in Chicago! irrpp.uic.edu/events/john-...

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights. Happening right now. Right in front of us.

What happened to freedom of speech?

One of the questions after my talk today was about scientists refusing to buck the administration because they fear losing their jobs. I said that a lot of self-styled apolitical scientists lost their jobs this week, so silence will not save them. Respond and keep your values and dignity.

After a decade of right-wing fools yelling about “cancel culture,” “free-speech,” and an (imaginary) threat of left-wing censorship, the first thing they do when the get power is ban talking about anything that hurts their little feelings. Ok, back to writing about these neo-segregationists.

A full circle moment, as Tricia Rose joined me on #LeftOfBlack for a wide-ranging conversation about her recent book 'Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free' (Basic Books) and the contemporary state of Black Expressive Culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflD...

Again, these folks have been in power before and yet still do not know how anything works. What in the world did they learn over four years in control of the federal government? Why isn’t this inexcusable incompetence a major story?

uhhh kinda feels like maybe they should publish those birds flu studies? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

From the folks that brought you “diversity of thought,” a list of words that shut down Nationl Science Foundation funding.

In a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, the losing candidate is trying to have more than 60,000 valid votes thrown out. Scholars who study collapsing democracies characterize the efforts as a dramatic escalation of democratic backsliding.

In this new piece we reconsider rurality and region (especially the South) to think about how they shape the criminal legal system www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

'Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine notions of Blackness.' www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...