In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive. Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️

Yeah…as someone who extensively covered his Big Lie in Georgia and the “parental rights”/ anti-everything movement in the U.S., I’ve written, spoken about and warned against the MSM’s normalization of this man and everything connected to him. From Nov. 9, 2024: theemancipator.org/2024/11/09/t...

Merry Christmas, Y’all ✨🎄🎁🖤

Grief is…something. God, I miss my grandmother. We should be talking our way through Christmas recipes tonight…Holding it together for my own children. ✨

Prepared to be sick of me in 2026. I ain’t lettin’ my foot off the gas. Hop on the ride or get ran all over. I say this in love for all things Black. All things Black narrative. All things truth. All things for us, by us. ✨🖤

The Trump administration targeted several book-adjacent government agencies, while libraries and comics publishers reeled over Baker & Taylor’s closure and Diamond’s bankruptcy, respectively.

I’m sure I’d trust the news judgement of a TV news novice and ideologue over experienced journalists working for what was the best newsmagazine in the industry. No one believes this explanation.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

At the top of the year, I’d predicted this fate for U.S. journalists and used the historic Black press to contextualize the type of threat we should all brace for during a second Trump presidency. Adding that link to this important @niemanlab.org piece…http://bit.ly/4b4w6pn

This “kill switch” that Alfonsi references is the most important point highlighted in this email. The administration’s tactical non-responses (or irrelevant to the story responses) to damning coverage, in addition to the political takeover of the FCC, are ways to essentially foster state-run media.

Made this point often while investigating school boards. So many school districts were sued in free speech complaints, while mostly white agitators reserved their right to monologues against teachings of race, truth. And they often won. This point aligns w my Feb. essay: www.ajc.com/education/ge...

Another must-read from @coreygjohnson.bsky.social for @propublica.org this morning: www.propublica.org/article/todd...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I hope newsrooms can go ahead and adjust their policies on using the words “lie” and “racist.” Cause this ish is just as openly racist, vile and disgusting as they want it to be. The masks have been off.

“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”

These people have lost their damn minds.

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

Anyone else realizing their 2026 calendar is loaded?? I can clearly see 2027, and that’s…unsettling, exciting and terrifying all at the same time.

Except it wasn’t unusual. It was quite on brand. Those of us who have worked in television and engaged in conversations where we implored management to consider airing clips with context rather than live rants full of disinformation, lies, partisan slop and anti- public health rhetoric, can attest.

More insanity.

Delighted to see that @markarms.bsky.social included one of my picks in the Best of 2025 list (Part One) posted over at @niemanstoryboard.org. Everyone should read THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, written by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social about the working homeless. And the rest of these stories as well!

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Sort of the way everyone of them spewed the word “woke”, got mainstream media to repeat and legitimize the usage without question, and could never define what they were describing.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Today would be a good day for y’all to read @coreygjohnson.bsky.social ‘s 2024/2025 gun industry investigation, Without Knowledge or Consent. Basically breaks down an origin story to consider when pondering America’s appetite for gun violence: www.propublica.org/series/witho... @propublica.org

Beyond grateful. Reading the @publisherswkly.bsky.social longlist for 2026 History Fiction + Non-fiction. My debut book, The Price of Exclusion, hits 18/55.This is a text that covers HBCU, Black American, Caribbean,ancestral + global medical histories.Hope you’ll add it to your holiday wishlist.✨🙏🏾

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins THE OVERSEER CLASS: A Manifesto by Steven W. Thrasher cover art by Jamaal Barber Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

A tremendous thank you to @americanstudier.bsky.social for including the Morehouse College announcement re: my forthcoming book, The Price of Exclusion, in this week’s #ScholarSunday newsletter.

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REP. HIMES: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. Any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”

A sincere thanks to Morehouse for this unexpected shoutout. I’m really humbled by the support for my debut book,The Price of Exclusion:The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation.Here’s the college’s write-up + pre-order link.Can’t wait to see you all in June: news.morehouse.edu/nicole-carr-...

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You can't know the U.S.'s history without knowing the U.S.'s Black history. “America does not have a full accounting of itself without the historic Black press,” says Nicole Carr, author, investigative journalist, and professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Tell me you don’t know America without telling me.

Wish you all could have heard our classroom discussion on this some weeks ago. Students and I came to the same conclusion re: industry folks.

Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list. I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.

It was a pleasure to speak with @stacykess.bsky.social about my approach to teaching journalism in an age of fascism, rampant lies and racial reckoning.

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

I just pre-ordered so damn fast. Can’t wait to read this from you!

Shop Black-owned on Small Business Saturday. The good owner of Reparations Club in L.A. has my forthcoming book on a pre-sale discount today @bookshop.org ! The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."

🧵Ecstatic + GRATEFUL to share the cover of my first book, The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in A Segregated Nation (HarperCollins June 2026). I can’t wait to share this in community with you. Pre-orders are available today, wherever books are sold : bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Thank God for families. The ones we’re born into, the ones we birth and the ones we choose. ✨

“This incident shows that we have important work to do at Morehouse College.” - New reporting from Joshua Bass re: the Morehouse student charged with assaulting a Clark Atlanta University student. The strangulation is captured in a disturbing viral video: maroontigermedia.com/2025/11/matt...

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

Earlier this year, I wrote about being concerned that we would soon witness journalists being jailed for doing their jobs.https://open.substack.com/pub/nicolefcarr/p/the-historic-black-press-and-the?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web It’s happening. Let’s not allow this to become the norm.

More relevant than ever…

Why not Jan. 6?

On Hurricane Melissa, the Department of Ed, Black women,newsrooms, immigration & the Black press. I look forward to sending out new Fortify newsletters soon. Until then, let’s look at what’s relevant in our archives. #jamaica #education #journalism #immigration www.instagram.com/reel/DRV96n6...