Quote: "Her well-earned acclaim, respect and power in the public realm have also made her a target of misogynoir. ... the image of a Black woman who rises to power for her intellect not her performance is even more uncomfortable for those wishing to keep Black women “in their place.”" Preach. ✊🏾♀️

Our first @nu_africanastudies event of this semester is appropriately entitled “A Litany for Survival” join members of our dynamic Africana Studies faculty for a conversation about Black Studies, Black scholars, and Black students on Tuesday February 10th 4-6pm #blackstudies #africana

The parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and today’s assault on higher ed remind us of the need to join communities of resistance. Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.

Some of many examples in U.S. history of invasion, & the devastating impact for the people. 🧵 Aug. 19, 1953, Iranian Premier was removed from power in a coup organized & financed by British & U.S. govts. Shah quickly returned to take power & signed over 40% of Iran’s oil fields to U.S. companies.

The Venezuelans are very clear about who their president is – and it’s not Trump

Ok let’s keep playing this.

Deep sadness and anger. lithub.com/feeling-deep...

bell hooks Taught Us to Imagine Freedom. Universities Are Forcing Us to Fight for It. msmagazine.com/2025/12/15/b...

It’s that time of the year! Tell me about the most beautiful essay/article you read this year. The one you can’t shake. The one we all missed because *gestures wildly*. The one you printed out. Tell me what moved you.

Hello, it’s me: the person who is about to launch book two and racing to wrap up book three 😬 Pleased to report I hit 50K today and I am feeling good I think *The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic* might be a banger 👀 (Under contract with @dukepress.bsky.social!)

“Once I became aware of myself, it occurred to me that I should add to the world’s stories.” —Ama Ata Aidoo The final author in our Gender & Black World Literature class is none other than Ghanaian powerhouse Ama Ata Aidoo. We have so much to learn from her…

For an essay assignment about How to Say Babylon in my Gender & Black World Literature class I gave my students the option of writing a short memoir. I am SO impressed by the depth, the creativity, & the vulnerability in these essays. WOW.

“What does it mean to be radical in this moment?” Listening to my Africana Studies colleague Caleb Gayle speak about his new book “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State” which takes up this question.

"Let's go to Haiti, and how history repeats itself." This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.

Proud prof mom moment—while talking to my teenage boys about Uncle Jonathan’s book Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness 16 yo son 2 nods and says “like how Equiano talks about the enslaved in the water…” When I tell you the way I exclaimed!!!

Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak

Now that #LarrySummers is backing away from #Harvard commitments can I please get a version of my AM and PhD diplomas without his signatures? Is it possible to get new ones issued with Drew Faust, Claudine Gay, or Derek Bok instead please 🙏🏾 #askingforafriend

Join us on 11/12 for a lecture by Dr. Tiffany Bailey our postdoctoral fellow in Black Feminist Studies

Writing this “welcome letter” to AY 2025-26 hit so different this year. cssh.northeastern.edu/africana/dir...

dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/a... @policingblack.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social "Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."

“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)

Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...

Day 1 of #1000wordsaday writing challenge felt so good. And went by faster thank expected! #amwriting #proflife #book4

How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Octavia Butler’s mother gave her the gift of a typewriter for her 10th birthday. Toni Cade Bambara’s mother swept around her and did not disturb her as she created on the kitchen floor. As a mother their actions convicted me. What am I doing to nurture Black girl genius?

I’ve spent the past two days thinking and writing in community with a wonderful group of people at @radcliffe.institute for a seminar on. The Environmental Writer-Activist. So grateful for the time to sit with thoughts and good people.

“Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“From what I’ve read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.” Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the final book on my syllabus for Black Women Lead. I can’t wait to hear how students are processing this novel today and what it has to teach us about leadership.

Happy book birthday! Congratulations! This is a big day! I love connecting with authors on launch day. And the title looks great. Just bought a copy. And look at you #1 in new release! 🙌📙🎉

Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus

Even though I teach the ways that power functions to make this less clear to people it still majes my head hurt that people don't seem to get this.

#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.” —Marie Vieux-Chauvet Happy Women’s Day!

#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.” -Mayor Michelle Wu @mayorwu.boston.gov

#WomensHistoryMonth Day 6. "I’m an African feminist who believes deeply in the power of art and artistic expression in changing the world. My feminist work has largely been centered on pan-African, feminist and environmental activism." -Nana Akosua Hanson

#WomensHistoryMonth Day 5 "My life journey, my numerous personal experiences, and my political and ideological stance have led me to understand that, as a black woman, I need power in all its manifestations and within all the spaces I occupy." --Pascale Solages @PascaleSolages

#WomensHistoryMonth2025 Day 3. “Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.” -Fannie Lou Hamer

#WomensHistoryMonth 2025 Day 2. “Feminism is for everybody.” —bell hooks

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 28. “Those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.” —Ayanna Pressley

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 27. “Creating is absolute power. And we all create. I use my art to hopefully create a better reality.” -Fabiola Jean-Louis