Exploring the Legacy of Nicodemus, a historic Black settlement in Kansas www.wellingtondailynews.com/exploring-th... #blacktowns

King’s Chapel unveiling first-of-its-kind statue, “Unbound,” to honor the 219 Black people who were enslaved by members and ministers of the church. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Trying not to overdo it with book promo but we’ve got a giveaway that’s a copy of Kaplan’s Plot with a matching LL Bean boat and tote. We’re giving five away on IG. www.instagram.com/p/DOwSra2jy-...

I'm extremely pleased to share this conversation at the Center for Brooklyn History about my new book with the great Annette Gordon-Reed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhF...

Hi Bluesky! Have I mentioned my book UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy is out October 28? It tells a bigger story of reproduction in America through the experiences of five women, and it’s available for preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Isn't Jay Jacobs also one of the reasons Dems lost the house?

It's funny how fashion trend is so collegiate and the *broad sweep of hand in the air* is so...anti college/anti intellectual. Like how generative ai text is derivative of the true thing.

Definitely not renewing my VF subscription guys

This book is 🔥 btw.

The data centers seem to be very attracted to predominantly black communities don't they

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

lol if you're inviting bigots to your campus willingly, I'm assuming you're a bigot because in 2025, this makes no sense.

Me, banging the table: CORDUROY SUIT WITH A GOLD CHAIN! CORDUROY SUIT WITH A GOLD CHAIN! CORDUROY SUIT WITH A GOLD CHAIN!

Gonna stream All The President’s Men in remembrance

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Flags half staff for Robert Redford

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

One of the observations that’s highly contested but seems to bear out in reality is the power of anti-Black racism as a tool for coercion for other marginalized communities.

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis remembered her Sunday as a fierce, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.” Read more: https://cnn.it/4ptwVNy

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

and this thing... are related things bsky.app/profile/solo...

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This is also what affirmative action originally was: recognizing that it wasn't enough to say "our admissions are now open, yippee!", but you had to take *affirmative action* to make sure that people actually applied. The idea that this is somehow suspect is beyond bizarre.

Chicago folks, the Art Institute's exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett's work is open and I highly encourage you to visit. I saw the exhibition 3 times when it was at the Brooklyn Museum. You will thank me later. www.artic.edu/articles/121...

Hi.

Now, here's a word.

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

There's not a cloud in these New York City skies today. 24 years later.

It really cannot.

Seeing this quote floating around today misattributed to James Baldwin, as it has been for years. It was written by Robert Jones, Jr., author of THE PROPHETS, who long blogged as “Son of Baldwin.” I even saw a so-called AI summary attributing it to Baldwin 😭😭

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Unlike what some of his obituaries claim, Charlie Kirk was "not a champion of free speech," says @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, who details Kirk's support for McCarthyist censorship.

This piece lives rent free in my head for 21 years.

Bloomberg tapped a former exec from The Related Companies to serve as deputy mayor.

elite impunity is not only about massive, unaccountable wealth but it sure doesn't help

Good morning. Here's a VH1 segment on Jeffrey Epstein from 2007.

The cancel culture panic was never about free speech. It was about domination. I wrote something to this effect when the cancel culture panic was still the political correctness panic, way way back in 2017. (Which now seems like another lifetime) Link: www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/u...

Yup.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Not in NYC but want to get actively involved in public library organizing? For The People has you covered on Oct 9. Sign up for "I Did It: You Can Too." us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions to strengthen public libraries.

Just because lots of things have precedent does not mean that new terrible things aren't happening too. People need to be able to hold multiple truth at the same time.

They name big names but it’s the regional entities that have a direct hand in affordable housing that do dealings with HPD and HDC you want to check for