Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s Tweets

Mar 19, 2020

Excited to announce, “Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow” is available for pre-order. It focuses on black women's generosity and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy. amzn.to/2Uyoi6L.

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Jul 15

I can’t wait

@ValaidaF

! Thank you so much!!!

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Valaida Fullwood

@ValaidaF

· Jul 15

Replying to @NGAAPCharlotte @FMBCCharlotte and 2 others

Looking Ward to collaborating with @HBGanttCenter in hosting @MckinleyTyrone!

Jul 14

Outstanding 1st week in

@brownlibrary

@NEH_ODH

summer institute! Can’t wait to be on campus! TY

& my new DH family

& others #Digitalhumanities #BlackDigitalHumanities

@BrownUniversity

Lisa M. Chmiola, MS, CFRE, TEDx speaker (she/her)

Jul 11

Thanks for the read and shout out!

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@houdatlisa

· Jul 9

Replying to @RachelJean_MN

Wow, that’s impressive!! And thanks! I’m in the middle of 2 books: @MckinleyTyrone’s book on Madam CJ Walker, and Empire of Sin which is about late 1800s/early 1900s New Orleans.

Jul 8

Thank you

@soulistaphd

! 🙏🏾

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Tanisha C. Ford

@soulistaphd

· Jul 7

ICYMI: The freedom of Juneteenth was fleeting. This is what came next. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0

Yo we done wit panels & interviews. Bring the fellas out! Let’s gooooo!! #NE4Life #ESSENCEFest

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All the NE4Lifers out there get your steps ready like we did in our backyards & basements back in the day. The fellas bout to come out!!!!! #ESSENCEFest #DownSince83 #NewEdition #AllSix

Crush on You!!!!!!!!!!! #EssenceFest #GenXHipHop

90s hip hop is crushing’ the #EssenceFest. #TheLox #Mef #TheRoots #WuTang #LilKim #Ashanti

Thank you

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· Jun 29

Black people have a long history of generosity rooted in community needs & the fight for freedom. After Juneteenth, I’m thinking of @MckinleyTyrone’s words, “the generosity and resistance exerted to re-secure lost freedoms must never cease.” wapo.st/3ybOkBz

Jun 28

The feeling is mutual

@alixguerrier

! Thanks for sharing your expertise!

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Alix Guerrier

@alixguerrier

· Jun 28

This was fun, especially because I learned from @TyeshaMaddoxPhD and @MckinleyTyrone ! twitter.com/MckinleyTyrone…

Jun 28

Excited to chop it up with this incredible panel to explore mutual aid, communities of color, data measurement & digital technologies for giving.

Thank you

and

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· Jun 28

Really excited for virtual summit @urbaninstitute tomorrow on trends in generosity. Panel on rechanneling giving with @mckinleytyrone @IUPhilanthropy @alixguerrier of @DonorsChoose and @TyeshaMaddoxPhD @FordhamNYC is going to be outstanding. Register: urbn.is/3tJZVFl

Jun 28

We’re exploring this important question today! Come thru if you can.

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Urban Institute

@urbaninstitute

· Jun 24

Are fewer people giving to charity, or are they just giving differently? Join the discussion on Tuesday, 6/28. #LiveAtUrban urbn.is/3yh55v5

madebyhistory

@madebyhistory

Jun 26

We have so many authors to thank this week that we need to do it in two tweets! Big shout out to Kristin Celello,

, Josiah Osgood, Eileen Tamura,

, and

Maribel Morey

@MaribelMorey1

Jun 22

Friends, Got news today that the chapter I penned for *The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois* is now available online. Please check out "W. E. B. Du Bois’s International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for Reform" (2022) oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/o

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Jun 22

Happy to see my book highlighted at the

@HOTCUS2022

conference in Scotland this week! Special conference 30% discount is available to anyone around the world this week. #HOTCUS2022 TY

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· Jun 22

Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving @MckinleyTyrone broadens our understanding of black women’s charitable giving & establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy Browse the #HOTCUS2022 exhibit here combinedacademic.co.uk/hotcus-2022/ @HOTCUS @HOTCUS2022 @IllinoisPress

Jun 20

Thank you

@KeishaBlain

!!!!

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Dr. Keisha N. Blain

@KeishaBlain

· Jun 20

“Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger declared ‘an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property’ for African Americans. They were finally free-or so they thought. But the freedom announced that day was fleeting.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0

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· Jun 19

Replying to @madebyhistory and @MckinleyTyrone

Great and important article @MckinleyTyrone!

for invitation to write about Juneteenth and Black Philanthropy. Freedom ain’t free or promised! #BPM365

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madebyhistory

@madebyhistory

· Jun 19

"In this moment when several constitutional freedoms are under threat, we have much to learn from that first “Juneteenth” generation and their significant efforts to regain what America had taken away from them. @MckinleyTyrone washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0

Deep State Grad. Studies Director (she, her, Dr.)

Way to go,

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· May 15

Congratulations to Dr. Tyrone McKinley Freeman for being chosen for a selective National Endowment for the Humanities-funded faculty institute in the digital humanities at Brown University this summer. We appreciate your dedication and service!

Bartow Elmore and 7 others

The

was awarded to nine historians during #TAUbog22. "The Dan David Foundation & TAU are reaffirming the value of #humanities & its centrality to the entire spectrum of research,” said TAU President Ariel Porat about the re-imagined prize. ow.ly/eJ6g50J8jFJ

May 11

In Tel Aviv, Israel to receive the Dan David Prize in History. Dr. Yael Sternhell from Tel Aviv Univ moderated a panel w/ me & Dr. Kim Welch of Vanderbilt University “Law, Wealth, Power and Generosity: New Ways of Thinking about Black Lives in America” to be aired on the BBC!

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@SouthernEdFound

Apr 19

Professors and authors

@krisrich

and

@McKinleyTyrone

were recently honored by winning The Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world. The two #BlackScholars receive $300,000 for the award. tinyurl.com/y473rc8y

The Philanthropisms Podcast

@Phil_isms_pod

May 6

ICYMI: In the latest episode, I had a great conversation with

- including this discussion of why historians of Black philanthropy face challenges with archival inequality and what can be done about it:

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

@CEPData

May 6

(3/3) And we’re #listening to

@Phil_isms_pod

latest episode, "Madam C. J. Walker & the History of Black Philanthropy” with

Tyrone McKinley Freeman: Madam C. J. Walker & the History of Black...

philanthropisms.com

In this episode we talk to Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI about his book "Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of...

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Illinois Press

@IllinoisPress

Apr 27

Look for a new review of

's MADAM C. J. WALKER'S GOSPEL OF GIVING in the April 2022 edition of "The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" (

@shgape

) For more info on the book, visit go.illinois.edu/f20freeman cc:

@CambridgeUP

Apr 22

Having this conversation was so much fun! Thank you

@LeftOfBlack

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Left of Black

@LeftOfBlack

· Apr 12

In this episode of @LeftOfBlack, @MckinleyTyrone shines a much-needed light on the philanthropic work of Walker throughout her life as he discusses his new book, 'Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow.' newblackmaninexile.net/2022/04/left-o

Women's Philanthropy

@WPIinsights

Our research shows high-net-worth women donors prefer to invest in systems-change, which we see reflected in

@mackenziescott

’s trust-based #philanthropy.

@IUPhilanthropy

’s

: bit.ly/3Lj0JHA #WomensPhilanthropy

on her approach to #giving in

@ConversationUS

theconversation.com

How MacKenzie Scott's $12 billion in gifts to charity reflect an uncommon trust in the groups she...

The approximately $12 billion she’s given away in the past two years has shattered conventions, explains a philanthropy historian.

UNC Press

@UNC_Press

Women's History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Helen Kyriakoudes) - UNC Press Blog

#WomensHistoryMonth 2022 Reading List, curated by Publicity Assistant Helen Kyriakoudes

@hkyriakoudes

: featuring authors Sherrie M. Randolph,

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from...

Alliance for Nonprofit Management

@AllianceforNPM

Congratulations to

allianceonlinecommunity.org

, the winner of the 2021 Terry McAdam Book Award! The Alliance is honored to award Dr. Freeman for his exceptional book Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow. Read more HERE:

Terry McAdam Book Award

Honoring the most inspirational and useful new books contributing to nonprofit management and capacity building.

Center for MSIs

@CenterForMSIs

Mar 29

"Research shows that #HBCU students attribute the many ways that faculty believe in them for their success" -

@marybethgasman

, and Exc. Dir. of

@CenterForMSIs

@SDPInstitute

Read how HBCUs Inspire Black #Scholars &

How HBCUs Inspire Black Scholars

's profile in

@Forbes

forbes.com

Tyrone Freeman is a scholar of African American philanthropy and a tenured professor in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He...

NonProfit Times

@NonProfitTimes

Mar 30

“This issue of proximity has gotten a lot of attention recently. We see that in Walker’s life because every #gift that she made was one she once needed herself."

@IUPhilanthropy

Professor

Episode 49: Dan David Prize Winner Tyrone Freeman

on Madam CJ Walker - ow.ly/z8Uf50Iw47j #FreshResearch #podcast

thenonprofittimes.com

#BPM2022 #BlackPhilanthropy

Had so much fun with

@NewBlackMan

Thank you Sir! 🙏🏾 Working at intersections of Africana Studies, Black Women’s History & Philanthropic Studies is exciting! Am looking for collaborators to go even deeper. Please check it out!

@LeftOfBlack

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Mark Anthony Neal

@NewBlackMan

· Mar 31

@MckinleyTyrone joins me on @LeftOfBlack this afternoon at 1pm EST to discuss his book 'Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow' (@IllinoisPress) youtube.com/watch?v=OhQXAq

How MacKenzie Scott's $12 billion in gifts to charity reflect an uncommon trust in the groups she...

The Munshine Group

@MunshineGroup

Mar 28

Updates on the remarkable #philanthropy of

@mackenziescott

and her $12 billion to #charity.

@YahooNews

with look at where money is going and what it means for #nonprofits from

The top donor is challenging conventional wisdom about giving. Jorg Carstensen/dpa/AFP via Getty ImagesMacKenzie Scott disclosed on March 23, 2022, that she had given US$3.9 billion to 465 nonprofits...

Grateful to

for joining

’s fundraising class to talk about all things philanthropy today. We all learned so much. Thank you!

Thank you

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· Mar 28

Writing for @Forbes about #HBCUs and how they inspire great scholars like @MckinleyTyrone, winner of the @DanDavidPrize nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fmarybethgasman%2F2022%2F03%2F27%2Fhow-hbcus-inspire-black-scholars%2F%3Fsh%3D70c03bb3cb4b&data=04%7C01%7Cmarybeth.gasman%40gse.rutgers.edu%7C4d980809fdea43e5365708da104e6c32%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C637840226242725756%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=%2F1kbjZWFLTq7r3DAxG%2BeGW5VVqy09UPKKcdYpeeqgh0%3D&reserved=0 @SDPInstitute @CenterForMSIs @RutgersGSE @RutgersU @RutgersU_News @IUPUI @LincolnUofPA

Rachel Wimpee PhD (she/her)

Mar 3

Thank you

@RachelWimpee

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@RachelWimpee

· Mar 3

This is so incredibly well deserved. Congrats to @MckinleyTyrone (PS, everyone should read his book!) twitter.com/DanDavidPrize/…

Mar 2

When the pics of my grandparents floated across the screen in the video I lost it. They taught me the generosity I write about. Thank you

@DanDavidPrize

for an incredible moment!!

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Dan David Prize

@DanDavidPrize

· Mar 1

Tyrone Freeman, @Mckinleytyrone of @IUPhilanthropy , winner of the #2022DanDavidPrize, works on the history of African American philanthropy, redefining who counts as a philanthropist and what counts as philanthropy.

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