Amdist this Obama celebration, I was honored to offer a bit of sobering balance in The Guardian’s coverage of the presidential center in Woodlawn. Alongside presidential legacy, this center continues a longtime UChicago land grab inflicted on local residents. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thanks to everyone who came to “Beyond the Quad” to kick off the year with a discussion of how to build solidarity on a wider basis in the face of gentrification, Medicaid cuts, and more. And thanks especially to panelists @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social , Dixon Romeo, JP Murray, and Cathy Cohen

www.pbs.org/show/making-... caught part of an episode of this today from 2022 and low and behold @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social popped up on my TV. A welcome surprise! Now need to watch the whole series.

Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting

Was happy to sit with comrades and community members in Durham ✊🏿. #WhatDoesDukeOweDurham

Excited to speak at Undercommoning the Urban Campus on Nov 3 in Lexington, KY! Joining brilliant minds like Rachel Gross, Faheem Majeed & Leen Katrib to rethink how campuses shape our cities. 📍 David Biagi Forum | 2–5pm #Undercommoning #SmartCities #UrbanCampus

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

What the fuck is going on?!?! We need to stand up for all our colleagues and comrades now!

It was great to build with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social...wondeful to watch the momentum for people power pick up and grow 💪🏿

🌟 TODAY 🌟 What Does Duke Owe Durham? Forum with author @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social about why universities should support workers and communities. 2pm, Asbury United Methodist, Durham. Sponsored by @southernstudies.bsky.social + @durhamrising.bsky.social www.southernstudies.org/davarianbald...

Today the mighty #DurhamRising marches for better relations between Duke + Durham. 🗣️✊🏿 Tomorrow I’ll place these struggles in a broader national context. This work isn’t just critique—it’s about community building + imagining new futures. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

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What Does Duke Owe Durham? Free talk with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social on Friday, Sept. 26, 2-3pm at Asbury United Methodist in Durham. Sponsored by @southernstudies.bsky.social and @durhamrising.bsky.social. More information and RSVP: www.southernstudies.org/davarianbald...

Big news: the Smart Cities Research Lab website is live! smartcitiesresearchlab.com Since 2021, we’ve been working on equitable community development—everywhere from New Haven + Durham to Rotterdam. Next stop: Bangkok. Blessed to keep building. 🙌🏿 #SmarterCities #DevelopmentWithoutDisplacement

Big news: the Smart Cities Research Lab website is live! Since 2021, we’ve been working on equitable community development—everywhere from New Haven + Durham to Rotterdam. Next stop: Bangkok. Blessed to keep building. 🙌🏿 #SmarterCities #DevelopmentWithoutDisplacement

Wow—what a time at the first annual Reparations Summit in St. Louis! 💡 Conversations on higher ed’s harms + strategies for repair ✊🏿 Scholars, organizers, descendant communities nationwide 🙏🏿Thanks to @RobinProudie + #DSLUE for hosting this powerful gathering #FromAcknowledgmentToAction

So thrilled to be back in Durham to help strategize and build people power, so that our wealthiest local institutions truly lean into community responsibility beyond symbolic gestures...let's go ✊🏿!!!

Happy to return to my other home and chop it up at the UChicago Center for Contemporary Theory and also build with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social All my Chicagoland peoples, please come thru on September 30...this Higher Ed crisis is deeper than "corporatization." ccct.uchicago.edu/events/beyon...

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

Hall of Fame weekend in Springfield...everybody outside. THE #MayaMoore!!

Highly recommend "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" by Davarian L. Baldwin. If you live in a city with a big college, you will notice what author Hattie Whitehead describes in her book & musical about Linnentown— universities taking more and more land.

🎶 Linnentown—The Musical is back in Athens! The community was demolished for UGA dorms. Now it lives on. Honored to also lecture at UGA + see the new street named Linnentown. ✊🏿 #RenewalProject #UrbanJustice #CommunityPower

Labor activists in coalition of local unions and labor-adjacent orgs. This was new, including the whole workforce of higher ed: faculty, clerical, health care, custodians, librarians, counselors, IT, buildings maintenance, landscapers, dining services, etc. @higheredlabor.bsky.social

#DurhamRising is calling on Duke to act responsibly toward Durham. I spoke with Facing South on how this fits into a national wave of community action. Proud my #SmartCitiesResearchLab can support. 👇🏿 www.facingsouth.org/2025/08/what...

Thank you, Davarian! So glad you’re part of it. Can’t wait to see what possibilities this book creates

Beautiful work from beautiful minds. Thanks @andyhines.bsky.social for corralling us and assembling #UniversityKeywords. Get yours NOW!!

On today's @21st.show, we talked about a new analysis of racial disparities in Illinois campus traffic stops. Our guests: reporter Nicole Jeanine Johnson, Khadine Bennett of ACLU Illinois, criminal justice professor Miltonette Craig and American studies professor @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social.

✍️ Mission Moment – Founding story or moment of impact. Last year’s conference was a lasting moment in our history, and we can’t wait to convene again in 2026! Until then, we’re listening back to Dr. Davarian Baldwin’s keynote presentation @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

Hey!! If you are near Hartford, CT, THIS WEDNESDAY, come to the iconic Artists Collective space for great Caribbean food and a Screening of the 4th episode of @pbs.org series Great Migrations. A panel will follow discussing the Hartford connections! 1200 Albany Ave @ 6pm...Come thru

We are the power that we've been waiting for. We need to be building out the university and spaces of commoning and collective collaboration that we seek. . . . The vision is not to defend higher education. The vision is to advance it. – @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

#SmartCitiesOnTheRoad There is nothing like amazing young minds. The #SmartCitiesResearchLab had a great time holding a writing and thinking workshop with students at Swarthmore College about "Campus Police Abolition" and liberatory (and more practical!) visions of safety.

We've got Grotke @kgrotke.bsky.social and Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion: I’ve signed a few of these open letters, but frankly, that is not enough. Faculty need to organize AND unionize. I began my #ProfessorLife in a union shop (Wayne State) & I’m now in AAUP-AFT’s at large chapter. Best time to unionize was yesterday. Second best is today.

There was a reason why Black Studies was the first point of attack when MAGA went after Higher Education... Will talk about this and more at Vanderbilt this Friday, April 4. If you are in the Nashville area, come thru👇🏿

The Battle for Higher Ed - a webinar series with Scholars for Social Justice / Freedom & Justice Institute 4/1 Premilla Nadasen 4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard 5/6 Maura Finkelstein

Feeling charged up after listening to @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social’s remarks on @haymarketbooks.org’s ‘On Black Studies’ panel. Universities, as they currently exist, can only survive this political moment if they adopt a truly liberatory focus. Regardless, WE won’t stop writing and educating.

3 recensions dans ce #numéro35, à commencer par une lecture croisée de Camille Vergnaud des ouvrages de @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, *In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower*, et de @wolf-powers.bsky.social, *University City*, sur le renouvellement urbain. journals.openedition.org/metropoles/1...

My heart goes out to Mahmoud Khalil and his wife who is 8 months pregnant. She does not need this kind of stress during her pregnancy. ICE will come after more and more people Green holders, citizens, anybody who goes against them. This is fascism folks. How does this combat antisemitism exactly?

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

While too many remain silent, we are saying the silent part aloud...#scholasticide. And our institutions of higher learning remain far too quiet. @aaup.bsky.social event on Scholastide w/Palestinian experts and scholars RIGHT NOW....we don't flinch

Getting chills listening to @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social intro the @aaup.bsky.social event on scholasticide in Palestine event right now. Brilliant and inspiring.

As Republicans attack Black history, I paid a visit to my alma mater and discovered there’s a lot I don’t know about the history of Black people on my own college campus. All the more reason why we must teach that history, not just in Black History Month but every month of the year.

Columbia has cracked down harder on 'antisemitism' (which both they and the current administration define broadly to include antizionism) than any other university in America. This is the clearest proof we have that doing the presidents' bidding *will not* spare your institution.

Columbia’s violent repression of students who are critical of Israel continues

If you missed our conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine about Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDJ...

“This genocide was not overlooked; it was justified and enabled." And to make matters worse, with the world fixated on Trump’s latest antics, Israel is quietly moving forward with its plans for ethnic cleansing and annexation, almost unnoticed.

This was a fabulous conversation. Thank you so much @isaac-campos.bsky.social 🙏🏿!!

Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Oh this is a bit more blunt of a report on the penn admin-pa legislator meeting

Almost 100 community members came out to our Community Conversation with Dr. @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social! Here are some highlight quotes. #ncpol #dukerespectdurham #drd #durham #bullcity #northcarolina @nctriangledsa.bsky.social