40+ years after Eleanor Bumpurs’ death, the public continues to remember her. Her daughter, Mary, says the legacy of her case is to keep her spirit moving. To let people know what happened to her. @madameclair08.bsky.social

#OTD 41 years ago, Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black woman with mental health challenges, was killed by the NYPD. Her death still drives calls for police accountability. Historian Ashley Farmer, Bumpurs’ former neighbor, explores why people continue to #SayHerName. buff.ly/j8S3oQP

Even before police officers went into Eleanor Bumpurs’s house on #TDIH in 1984, she had already been harmed by the city. They did not give her adequate psychiatric services. They did not give her municipal services. @madameclair08.bsky.social

In this edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I review a beautiful new book about Eleanor Bumpurs. I recommend a great new season of the One Million Experiments podcast, several good recent articles and essays, and more…

“Like many New Yorkers, she [Eleanor Bumpurs] witnessed the ravages of Reaganomics on working-class and poor people, including her own family.” — @madameclair08.bsky.social

In a time before viral videos and hashtags, activists and cultural critics invoked Eleanor Bumpurs when talking about police brutality. @madameclair08.bsky.social has written the first ever biography about her, TELL HER STORY. @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

I got an advanced copy of this book and it is EXCELLENT. Happy Publication Day, LaShawn!

Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City by LaShawn Harris. (@madameclair08.bsky.social) link to publisher's web page: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...

@madameclair08.bsky.social was only 10 yrs old when her neighbor, Eleanor Bumpurs, was shot dead by an NYPD officer. Harris was drawn to her life story because she’d grown up hearing Bumpurs mentioned in hip hop and Spike Lee films.

30 years after Eleanor Bumpurs’s death, New Yorkers and those beyond the Empire State continue to #SayHerName. Today’s activists remember her and have introduced her tragic story to new generations of social justice advocates. @madameclair08.bsky.social buff.ly/yzJe3fe

Who was Eleanor Bumpers before her fatal encounter with the NYPD on October 29, 1984? @madameclair08.bsky.social wrote TELL HER STORY to uncover Bumpers’s personal history, her dreams and aspirations, who she was as a mother and neighbor.

@madameclair08.bsky.social’s TELL HER STORY shows how Eleanor Bumpers’s assassination in 1984 set off a movement against police violence. And it’s on @msmagazine.com’s new August books roundup! 🤩

Through her own personal connection with Eleanor Bumpurs, @madameclair08.bsky.social recounts and honors this #SayHerName memory in TELL HER STORY. And it comes out tomorrow!

The @karenhunter.bsky.social show welcomes Award-Winning Historian; Author of "TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City" – Available Tomorrow! : LaShawn Harris! @madameclair08.bsky.social #MotivationalMonday #KarenRebels

"Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" www.amazon.com/Tell-Her-Sto... @karenhunter.bsky.social @madameclair08.bsky.social #KarenRebels

Happy #PubDay, @madameclair08.bsky.social! 🎉 TELL HER STORY, the life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother, Eleanor Bumpers, that changed community activism forever, is “an immersive account.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social, ⭐Starred Review buff.ly/DnytLvf

"This [eviction] was never a thing for the police to get involved with. What were they going to do, put her in the street?" Read an excerpt from professor and historian LaShawn Harris's new book, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" here:

I am forever honored that Karen Lewis entrusted me to co-author her memoir--I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education @haymarketbooks.org Karen was a powerful labor leader, formidable fighter & staunch defender of students, teachers & public education 1/ www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2444-i...

Beauticians continue to teach us lessons on how to strategize in difficult political movements.

Blurbs are in for "Tell Her Story." Thank you great scholars and friends. Thank you @beaconpress.bsky.social Read all the blurbs here: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...

It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015 and the Uprising that followed. Many in Baltimore remember the grief, anger and pain of those days, but also the solidarity and organizing that came from taking to the streets and declaring “Whose streets? Our streets.”

Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."

The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of US history. #TransLivesMatter 🏳️‍⚧️

In celebration of Black History Month, we've partnered with @beaconpress.bsky.social to giveaway a pair of signed books by author @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social bit.ly/4kixpUa

On the first day of Black history month, I wanted to share a story about the Kings. In 1965, because of the strictures of the Civil Rights Act (that linked federal funds to school districts to school desegregation), the Kings were able to get their kids into a new, better-funded ATL school.

Happy Black History Month!!!!

Happy Publication Day #MSU Prof. Pero Dagbovie! 📚✊🏾🥳 #BlackHistoryMonth #MichiganState

#They can’t take away what they didn’t give. asalh.org/about-us/abo...

Congrats @cherylneely.bsky.social on your @beaconpress.bsky.social 📕😍 "Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025" msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a... www.beacon.org/No-Human-Inv...

@beaconpress.bsky.social 📕 Alert: "Tell Her Story Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s Preorder: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...

@beaconpress.bsky.social 📕 Alert: "Tell Her Story Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s Preorder: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...

What amazing company! What an exciting set of comments on Kali Gross’s VENGEANCE FEMINISM! signsjournal.org/kali-n-gross...

Some righteous rage from @mspackyetti.bsky.social. www.thecut.com/2023/05/jord...

The FBI’s Untold War Against Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: Interview with Author John Potash www.newblackmaninexile.net/2015/09/the-...

Teedra Moses’ NPR Tiny Desk performance is out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQTE...