On Wednesday 2/25, @nu_africana will host a special screening of the award-winning documentary Daughters followed by a discussion with the producer, director, one of the men featured in the film, colleagues who work on #massincarceration Please join us @Northeastern @NUCSSH

Wesley Morris on “On Morrison”: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

February 18th is one of my favorite days of #blackhistorymonth on this day in 1931 and in 1934 the world was blessed with the genius of #ToniMorrison and #AudreLorde happy heavenly birthday to these icons 💜

Thank you Prof. Saida Grundy for this eye opening tribute to #JesseJackson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Feminist thinking teaches us all how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life." ― bell hooks from "Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics" (bookshop.org/a/7256/97811...) #CiteBlackWomenSunday #TeachTruth

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold. In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware

“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. See, his limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happened to be Black.” —Michelle Obama

“Word-work is sublime...because is it generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life.” --Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993

Inspired by #ToniMorrison this #BlackHistoryMonth I am focusing on “doing my work” without distractions. To that end I will be doing the #1000 words a day #writingchallenge again. Join me! 1020 words today.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

A caregiving social movement IS political.

Timely classroom resource. Mapping Deportations offers data visualizations & a timeline on how history of anti-immigrant legislation & racism have always been intertwined, back to 1803 law in response to Haitian Revolution. Let us know how you use the site. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ma...

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

I spent several weeks this fall visiting elite liberal arts colleges, on the theory that these small, wealthy schools—with a singular focus on undergraduate education and almost no federal research money to threaten—are best poised to weather the crisis in higher education. Here's what I learned:

I just finished reading Tracy K. Smith's "Poetry in Perilous Times" and know that I will be thinking (and writing and teaching) about it for a very long time. Some highlights... "Every poem is an invitation to its reader and writer to pay closer, fuller, and more courageous attention."

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

“Based on my professional judgment & disciplinary expertise, issues of race, gender, & sexuality are not peripheral but integral to the study of administrative ethics & public service.” — Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

Proud of my brother-in-love standing up for academic freedom 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

"When universities censor topics involving race, gender, sexuality, power & inequity, they are not protecting students. They are underpreparing them. They deprive students of the intellectual tools to become informed citizens." — Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M

“Rest gives us space to dream of the future that we deserve. But when we rise, we are met with the responsibility to make it so.” scalawagmagazine.org/2024/03/rest...

With ICE presence 💔 increasing in Lewiston, Maine -- we recommend the YA edition of "The Sum of Us" by Heather McGhee & the podcast episode about a 3rd generation dairy farmer & farmers from the Somali Bantu community. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

Senegal has won the Africa Cup of Nations in dramatic fashion. Pape Gueye scored in extra time for the Teranga Lions to beat host Morocco 1-0 in a chaotic final which at one point saw Senegal’s players leave the field to protest a penalty decision. https://cnn.it/49GLXZ1

On January 20, we walk out EVERYWHERE. When leaders abuse power, we stop cooperating. On Jan 20 @ 2 pm local time, we walk out to defend our future and our freedom. Find an action near you at the link below. Higher ed workers, let’s show up. @womensmarch.com #FreeAmericaWO

ICE not only manhandled and terrorized a 10th grader who is an American citizen, they stole his phone. And then they sold it. I repeat, they stole his phone, and then they sold it.

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