Oh boy smh

This is especially the case if the Feds want to follow Atlanta's lead and start charging organizers and protesters with racketeering (and conspiracy). Just because the ATL case was dismissed won't stop the Feds from trying

The "nothing to see here" tone from the authorities--not surprising, but still, like, wtf. A Black man hanging himself from a tree, in a public place, in Mississippi? And the idea that folks should just trust the authorities on this ☠️ thegrio.com/2025/09/15/b...

The last several days have demonstrated that we need a stronger labor movement to protect worker’s free speech rights

I mean this sincerely—Malcolm X tried to tell us something deeper about violence in our society in November 1963, as did MLK when he spoke out against the Vietnam War at Riverside in 1967. And folks got mad at them for their analysis…

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Some of you asked if I would make a playlist for my Hip Hop history class. Here it is! It's pretty long because I basically condensed all of my Spotify playlists and added more notable tracks. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Want to read about @austinmccoy.bsky.social's Hip Hop History class? He wrote about it for #AHAPerspectives last year: 🗃️

Some of you asked if I would make a playlist for my Hip Hop history class. Here it is! It's pretty long because I basically condensed all of my Spotify playlists and added more notable tracks. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I get into these moods where I can't stop listening to David Axelrod's Song of Innocence. His production and the rhythm is like the perfect musical EKG and then it's fun to anticipate all of the rap samples

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I always ask students what topics they're interested in when they take my classes to get a sense of what I might need to focus on. Many said they wanted to know more about hip-hop culture's origins. Tuesday, we focused on the pre-1973 moment and, of course, I created a short playlist:

I always ask students what topics they're interested in when they take my classes to get a sense of what I might need to focus on. Many said they wanted to know more about hip-hop culture's origins. Tuesday, we focused on the pre-1973 moment and, of course, I created a short playlist:

The audiobook of Unbuild Walls is now available! bit.ly/unbuildwalls... Also, physical copies are 40% off if you buy at @haymarketbooks.org sale ends Friday! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/462-su...

What's annoying about this "conversation" about policing coming out of this president's repressive escalation is that it is based on not the fears of communities living in particular areas in question, it's about the fears of many white folks who arent ever interested in living w/working class folks

I played this clip of Freddie Gibbs talking about the use of AI in rap music to explain my AI policy in my hip hop history class. I might use it for every class lol www.tiktok.com/@pigsandplan...

Soon you're going to tell me that Dems will need to take the great cracker barrel freak out of 2025 seriously in order to defeat fascism

First day of the semester today. While it is my third time teaching the hip hop history class, it feels like I’ve been doing it forever. I decided to assign these albums for my hip hop history class. I hope I found a good compromise between albums and assigning songs from my class playlist.

This syllabus is for the children.

First day of the semester today. While it is my third time teaching the hip hop history class, it feels like I’ve been doing it forever. I decided to assign these albums for my hip hop history class. I hope I found a good compromise between albums and assigning songs from my class playlist.

Of course this president having the power to impose a white nationalist, neo-confederate, and slavery denialism is ridiculous. But, I won't sit here and act like I didn't grow up and go to college hearing benign versions of this denialism coming from well-meaning (sometimes liberal) white folks lol

Got my advance reader copies of Living in a DAISY Age yesterday! They look amazing! It’s hard to put into words how I feel holding a physical copy of my book 🤯 Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Living...

From one of the coolest and smartest people I knew in my grad school days. Guaranteed must-read for anyone into hip hop or Black intellectual history.

Got my advance reader copies of Living in a DAISY Age yesterday! They look amazing! It’s hard to put into words how I feel holding a physical copy of my book 🤯 Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Living...

Finally done with my hip-hop history syllabus. The major drawback is that its not as geographically diverse as I'd like. But, I'm happy with the new topics I've incorporated (really squeeze lol) and I was able to assign more albums than last time 👏👏👏 Thanks y'all for your suggestions!

Finally done with my hip-hop history syllabus. The major drawback is that its not as geographically diverse as I'd like. But, I'm happy with the new topics I've incorporated (really squeeze lol) and I was able to assign more albums than last time 👏👏👏 Thanks y'all for your suggestions!

This president's attempts to take control over DC is about authoritarianism, racism, classism, and the fact that he and many others will never get over the fact that multiracial and global protests in the summer of 2020 delegitimized police in a way we had not seen

This president's attempts to take control over DC is about authoritarianism, racism, classism, and the fact that he and many others will never get over the fact that multiracial and global protests in the summer of 2020 delegitimized police in a way we had not seen

Not shocking, but ironic how this president criticized Hillary Clinton for her use of "superpredator" discourse in the 1990s and now he mobilizes the same idea to describe young folks ("roving gangs") in DC (and immigrants) without actually using the term to uphold lies about crime

Not shocking, but ironic how this president criticized Hillary Clinton for her use of "superpredator" discourse in the 1990s and now he mobilizes the same idea to describe young folks ("roving gangs") in DC (and immigrants) without actually using the term to uphold lies about crime

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I'm teaching hip hop history again this semester! I've been trying to think of more ways to focus on albums rather than song playlists since the latter has become the primary way a lot of folks listen to music. So far, I'm thinking...

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Thanks for all of the responses and reposts! Still happy to hear more suggestions!

I'm teaching hip hop history again this semester! I've been trying to think of more ways to focus on albums rather than song playlists since the latter has become the primary way a lot of folks listen to music. So far, I'm thinking...

Great news!

A new print run of Anarchy Works just came out from @detritusbooks.bsky.social and it's on sale! Capitalism and the State are dragging us into an abyss of multiplying catastrophes, telling us we can't exist without them. Guess what? We already have and we can do so again!

This demonstrates why pardon power is should be based on a moral and legal calculus emphasizing justice and correcting harms perpetrated by the legal system. This power should be democratized, somehow, if it is going to exist. There are obvious problems with the optimistic framing of pardon power...

This demonstrates why pardon power is should be based on a moral and legal calculus emphasizing justice and correcting harms perpetrated by the legal system. This power should be democratized, somehow, if it is going to exist. There are obvious problems with the optimistic framing of pardon power...

This move feels incredibly predictable. I won't be surprised if the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped releasing employment data, unless it can report "favorable" numbers. Also, Black unemployment rose by a little more than a percentage point since February.

Of course, all some Democrats needed to do last year was to listen to Palestinian and pro-Palestine protesters who tried to tell everyone about genocidal violence and ethnic cleansing instead of trying to suppress them and shame folks into voting for them. Now we got MTG outflanking some of them

One of my pet peeves is when I hear some Dems on TV complain about how pro-Palestinian protests aren't as big. I'm just like, um, y'all iced out protesters and the uncommitted movement, y'all didn't stop college administrators from arresting students, and Biden did nothing to stop Netanyahu.

It's gross how this administration is using MLK's assassination as a shield because they don't want to release the Epstein files.

It's gross how this administration is using MLK's assassination as a shield because they don't want to release the Epstein files.

DAMN. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/a...

Just started thinking about my hip hop history class syllabus for the fall and I thought—I’d never put it past a student to use AI in this class, but it would be an incredible waste if they did lol

Despite the harm all of this caused, this quiet nature of this seems like a retreat on the part of the feds. At least for the time being www.npr.org/2025/07/16/n...

Funny how the only "correct" way for leftists to engage in politics in the US is to become liberal, centrist, or conservative. Don't riot; don't protest; don't run third party candidates in elections; don't run as a socialist in Dem Party primaries; don't try to take control of the DNC, etc., etc.

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.