Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
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the biggest congratulations to the fly and formidable for being awarded the prestigious Freedom Scholar award! and to all the awardees, thank you for your labor of love, study, and struggle
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THE WAIT IS OVER! Our 2022 #FreedomScholars are here! Join us in celebrating this fantastic group of brilliant thinkers, courageous activists, & bona fide change-makers. We're thrilled to invest $2.5M into the scholarship that shifts the balance of power. bit.ly/3Uyp7sU
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so excited for this!
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NYC on Nov.5 -- I get to talk about Essie Robeson and Black internationalism with the amazing @nylefort -- join us at Peoples Forum on 37th Street
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Join us on 9/28 for an in-person and online book talk with on BECOMING ABOLITIONISTS, joined in conversation by . Becoming Abolitionists shows that abolition is not only about getting rid of police but building a safer world. RSVP: peoplesforum.org/events/book-ta
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in conversation tomorrow at 7pm est with the jazziest historian on the planet, Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, about the book that raised a generation of freedom fighters. register here: bit.ly/3R4TOVB
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Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. —George Jackson #BlackAugust
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please read this and join organizations like the who are fighting to cancel all student debt!
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hi- i wrote about how first generation, Black, people of color graduates use student loans to pay for social inequalities and poverty that burden our families and why Biden must cancel them all, without balance and income caps. Some highlights:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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police and white supremacists are killing us loudly. student debt is killing us softly. let’s talk about what we can do about it
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SunDDay School is back in session
Join us this Sunday, June 26th at 1 PM EST along with several special guests as we talk about how we can achieve student debt abolition!
Register here
bit.ly/sunddayschool
#DD10Year #SunDDaySchool
Join us this Sunday, June 26th at 1 PM EST along with several special guests as we talk about how we can achieve student debt abolition!
Register here bit.ly/sunddayschool
#DD10Year #SunDDaySchool
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last year i earned a PhD from University. yesterday i crossed the stage & made my mama proud. excited to join the African American & African Diaspora Studies Dept at University as an Assistant Professor! my eyes are heavy from loss, my heart is full from love
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Cancel student debt. All of it.
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Right now 89% of student loan borrowers with full-time jobs say they cannot afford to pay their student loans.
Join us TOMORROW at 1PM at the Eaton DC Hotel for a special edition of SunDDay School: Black Student Debt
#ForgivetheLoansJoe
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"Becoming Abolitionists" provides a blueprint for each of us to begin to run, dream, and experiment toward a just and livable future.
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TONIGHT! Join us!
The library and will host a panel discussion via Zoom on "Black Activism, Then and Now" featuring
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Full details and registration: princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/6137883
#Blackhistorymonth2022
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Coinciding with a special issue of , this program commemorates 10 years since #TrayvonMartin’s murder while investigating the violence within the Constitution which enabled his murder, systemic police brutality, and the embedded racism in U.S. Law.
qnsmu.se/ConstitutingCo
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BREAKING: New report from Amnesty International finds Israeli authorities are committing the crime against humanity of apartheid against Palestinians in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Palestinian refugees.
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For the 10 year anniversary of Trayvon Martin's murder, I had the honor of interviewing his mother, Sybrina Fulton, for 's February cover story. I'm thankful for her honesty and hard work. This was the hardest story I've ever written in my life.
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ten years after Trayvon Martin’s murder, i wrote about the spiritual promiscuity of BLM for : “Prayer offers comfort. Call-and-response turns a Lil Boosie song into a movement anthem. Libation transforms Hennessy into holy water.”
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we are lucky to have and this triumph of imagination. buy it, share it, teach it, grapple with it, learn from it. no matter your politics, Becoming Abolitionists will stretch your mind and strengthen your heart. link in bio!
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i witnessed write her rigorously researched, elegantly written, and politically expansive book through a pandemic while raising children, taking care of family, organizing behind the scenes, and making time to watch NBA games and keep up with our Netflix shows
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i’ve never been so excited to announce anything in my life! ’s book drops this fall. i’ve seen the sweat, tears, and time she’s put into this elegantly written and rigorously researched book on police abolition and much more. pre-order now!
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675803/b
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Free Mumia and ALL political prisoners.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Tests Positive for COVID, Prompting Urgent Call to Release Elder Political Prisoners
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Check out the cover of "There’s A Revolution Outside, My Love," an anthology edited by Tracy K. Smith and , featuring work by Randall Kenan, Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Ross Gay, and many more.
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but love lifted me
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"At Princeton, I was eager to make sense of my experiences in Ferguson and my family’s funeral parlor. Ironically, as I began studying African American mourning, I experienced a spell of personal loss." — @NyleFort, graduate student
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i love how contextualizes in a broader conversation about the relationship between social movements and electoral politics. it’s phenomenal. check it out!
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hi, i am honored that my very first cover story is on St. Louis' very own Congresswoman @CoriBush for the January cover of @TeenVogue. @RepCori energy is unmatched and I hope it shines through the piece. Would love to know what you think!
teenvogue.com/story/cori-bus
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My interview with
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‘Choose your side, there’s no in-between’ — Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. breaks down the troubling history of white mob violence in the U.S.
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“As much as we ought to condemn the nationalists outside the walls of Congress, we must continue to organize against the politicians inside who maintain the racist, capitalist, and militaristic agendas...”
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i’m SO excited to read and teach and do political education around Derecka’s two forthcoming books on abolition and activism. she is a brilliant, humble, courageous literary icon in the making!
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hi, some personal news— so grateful to write two books that I deeply believe in, for my city, for all of the protestors, organizers, and thinkers who make our liberation work possible, and for you, too.
so eager to learn what you think!
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