There's no other way to say this.. WE MUST WIN THE HOUSE AND SENATE TO DESTROY THE GOP CORRUPTION WE ARE SEEING ON A DAILY BASIS

On this day, 52 years ago, Portugal was liberated from fascism

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH MEN!!!!!!!!!!!

To quote @profkori.bsky.social, this GQ article and the author featured is also a textbook case of rewarding white mediocrity

per Nellie McKay: “the three critical problems that…hold African American literature hostage: the insufficiency of the black PhD pipeline, the efforts to discourage white graduate students from exploring black literature, and untrained white scholars' undertaking of scholarship in black literature”

PMLA 113.3 (May 1998): 359 – 69. P. Gabrielle Foreman, “A Riff, a Call, and a Response: Reframing the Problem That Led to Our Being Tokens in Ethnic and Gender Studies; or, Where Are We Going Anyway and with Whom Will We Travel?,” LEGACY 30.2 (2013): 306 – 22.

Americans forever acting like we're beyond stuff we ain't beyond. I'm remain grateful for Black women who tell the truth, regardless... Nellie Y. McKay, “Naming the Problem That Led to the Question ‘Who Shall Teach African American Literature?’; or, Are We Ready to Disband the Wheatley Court?,”

alt-text: American Studies for the Future Keynote Speaker Prof. Koritha Mitchell @profkori.bsky.social April 29, 2026, at 4pm American Studies end-of-year reception follows Boston University, event details at link www.bu.edu/americanstud...

Americans forever acting like we're beyond stuff we ain't beyond. I'm remain grateful for Black women who tell the truth, regardless... Nellie Y. McKay, “Naming the Problem That Led to the Question ‘Who Shall Teach African American Literature?’; or, Are We Ready to Disband the Wheatley Court?,”

Join Jews across the country to demand that Salah Sarsour be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact. Learn more and add your name:: www.bendthearc.us/release_sala...

But Kori, they would have voted for Obama three times if they could have!

So excited to hear thee scholar Dr Kinitra Brooks on the Black Studies Podcast! Just got to the part about epistemic violence. Let's talk about it. S/O to Kristie Dodson. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

This article tracks the rise of what @profkori.bsky.social has identified as "know-your-place-aggression." This is the predictable result of Rufo, Trump and Miller's attacks on Black achievement I n higher education, indeed Koritha anticipated all of this years ago. 🤬

"There’s a deep vein in American writing that understands that the gift isn’t the finished Work but the working, the making, the engaging with the world in the work of writing." That's dope

Please join us on April 29, 2026 for a lecture by keynote speaker Koritha Mitchell on her book "Blissfully Childfree: A Memoir in Letters" as a part of our American Studies for the Future Lecture Series! More information for this event can be found on our website.

We used to put so much effort and care into education and learning.

You're not "helping" when you photoshop stuff like that and put a fake image out there they can easily dismiss when the reality is already bad enough.

The grift by critics of higher ed. Disgraced former right-wing OSU President Ted Carter’s right-hand man, who played such a central role in Carter’s scheme, is the new VP at WVU, right-winger Gordon Gee’s old school.

"Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe." Letter to the Person who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann via @mayacpopa.bsky.social

Of the opinion that everyone should read Margo Jefferson's *On Michael Jackson*...and really anything she writes... harpers.org/archive/2019...

Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...

Everyone is doing just fine… Nurse: Dr. Risam? Me, Dad, Mom: Yes? Mom: She definitely doesn’t mean you, Roopsi

We’re losing recipes!!!

Spring is happening on campus!!! #goegeous #gothic #allergies #studying #mulch #stillcold

Last night was the American Antiquarian Society’s semi-annual meeting at the Century Association. I didn’t take any pictures because phones should not be on in most areas of the building. But, my day was full of quality time with folk I wanted to see! Dr. Mia White made time to meet me for a…

The DRAMATICS! Cory about to do another 24-hr filibuster speech, this time about the beauty, no— the moral majesty of AI.

This past December, Robert E. Lee's statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by a 16 year old Black girl's. Barbara Johns did a thing exactly 75 years ago today. Her action at her school in Virginia literally helped reshape American law. Along with 450 of her classmates

The tiny group of powerful bigots ruining everything love to pretend their hierarchies are natural, even though it’s extremely clear that everyone fucking hates them and the garbage they are fighting to build

AAUP and @aft.org members: Endorse the letter by Todd Wolfson and Randi Weingarten calling on the TIAA to divest from fossil fuels and to reinvest those funds in renewable energy and climate solutions that support workers. Sign on at link below⬇️ @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social

Very pleased to be speaking about COMMON SENSE at @thomaspaineha.bsky.social on May 14, in the heart of Tom Paine country in New Rochelle, NY. This talk will really dig into what I see as fascinating and unexpected resonances between the media environments of 1776 and 2026

So much quality time with different folk! Brent Edwards invited me to visit with the current Schomburg fellows, including Angela Fornoy, whose THE WILDERNESS I read upon release! Then, I caught up with Dr. Crystal Moten before I visiting the renovated Studio Museum of Harlem. #Grateful

I have nothing but tears. www.instagram.com/p/DXb4iTrDYS...

Sometimes a Lyft ride is all you need to feel the misogyny and misogynoir (H/T Moya Bailey) permeate the air and coat every surface. Wow!

Every day brings a new AI product, use case or outcome. But one method endures for knowing what these systems actually do and to whom: auditing. Thrilled to share my new coauthored book, Auditing AI-a roadmap for accountability across this dynamic terrain #openaccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...

Welp ... www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

In 2026, everything I value is under attack. It therefore hit hard to realize why contributors to BLACK STUDIES ON 135TH STREET were held to such a strict word count. Literally half of the book is a bibliography!!! Yes, a Black bibliography has been published in 2026 in honor of #Schomburg100! 1/3

Forgive me for a moment of self-indulgence. MAGA, you started it. We’ll finish it. We put a time limit in CA & VA, because, unlike you, we love our country, our union and our constitution. You’ve got trouble even in Texas now you’ve made it clear you reject folks with Mexican ancestors. TONTOS.

A statue of Jesus received more legal recourse from the Israeli government than tens of thousands of Christian and Muslim Palestinian people.

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In light of the #Hugo Award finalists being announced: Let me just say I'll be talking about #Audiofuturism at @laworldcon.bsky.social on the Academic Track in August. Maybe nominate it for Best Related Work next year? See you in Anaheim!

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general across the country have been working to protect and expand access to reproductive healthcare within their states in the face of Republican-led attacks.

“We’re showing the Board of Regents that we’re not backing off.” @tamu-aaup.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/04/20/t...

a crime against humanity and good taste

Huntington Bank’s Voice Rewards credit card has excellent fraud prevention & protection. I’m now grateful for two mistakes it has kept me from making! #PraiseDance

Huntington Bank’s Voice Rewards credit card has excellent fraud prevention & protection. I’m now grateful for two mistakes it has kept me from making! #PraiseDance

final assignment guidelines for students in "later romantics," who are tasked with rewriting the syllabus and explaining their principles of inclusion and exclusion: we're all being written out of the history of knowledge; write yourself back into it.

BLACK STUDIES ON 135TH STREET is out today! My contribution, “Following Schomburg’s Example,” is about amplifying decency. U.S. culture doesn’t require white people to be decent, so if you want more decency in the world, you must amplify & support it when you see it! True 100 years ago. True now.

As well as yet another dean being shown the door….

What is academic labor? Who performs the type of knowledge work we call academic labor, of what does it consist & what might its aims be? Join us on Tuesday, April 28 at 3 pm ET for conversations about the theme of the winter issue of #Academe. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Stunned and grateful for this review of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME! 🙏🏽 “The book makes complicated concepts so relatable, readers once wary of the cosmos because of its vast nature, can finally wrap their brains around it in digestible pieces.“