If you aren’t putting together that every protest movement in our country gets met with hyper militarized police force except white supremacists it’s easy to miss your rights being swept away as well

#HaitianHeritageMonth | EN— Join us • Sat., May 11th • 10:30am • at Indianapolis Public Library Glendale Branch — 3660 E 62nd St— for a timely conversation on the next library strategic plan with the Haitian community. 📚Free library card & Haitian Creole workbooks for kids. 1/2 Beairshelle Edmé

After weeks of weaponizing graduation to shut down our encampment, justify our mass arrests, and lock down campus entirely, Columbia has cancelled commencement altogether. Almost as if it was never about commencement in the first place.

Something that consumed every non-work hour of my life for over a year is now complete. With a foreword from Eric Liu + an afterword from Bridget Marquis, “Meet Me at the Library” hits bookstores on 10/8/24. Pre-order now. islandpress.org/books/meet-me-… More details coming soon!

Soon, academics who stayed quiet when it was most urgent to speak out will publish articles and books on the encampments.

Helicopters circle overhead as 100s of police descend upon my campus, in full riot gear, standing off against students & faculty. Almost 1 officer for every protester. The words escape me but the feeling doesn't. This is unjust. This is chilling. This is unnecessary. This is us

What job do I have if the students don't have a future? —Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas. cbsn.ws/4anlkqx

Whats being shown: Laws- international & domestic- dont matter Power matters Disgusting, grotesque acts at mass scale r performed w impunity We need a world where ppl democratically control the wealth we create w our labor Then we'll have power2stop these kinds of atrocities

I am pleased to share that the federal Environmental Racism/Justice private members bill (Bill C-226) was approved at Senate yesterday. It becomes the first environmental justice law in Canada. Statement from my organizations ENRICH and the CCECJ ccecj.ca/press/senate-p…

Tackling environmental racism in Canada nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles…

I am excited to share the front and back covers of my forthcoming book "From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Impacts of Racial Trauma in Black Communities from the Colonial Era to the Present". The book will be published on November 25, 2024.

🚨🌎BREAKING: Climate scientists at Cornell just made the extremely alarming announcement that our Planet absorbed almost no CO2 last year. We're now in uncharted territory. Here's what happens next. 🧵1/9 #climatecrisis

SAYING “JESUS” WHILE BLACK What do White #evangelicals say about a Black woman who said “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus” AND then was shot in the face by a White policeman? #SayingJesusWhileBlack #SonyaMassey

💬 Earlier today I appeared on Indiana’s WISH-TV News with Reyna Revelle, Jeremy Jenkins - WISH TV & Phil Sanchez to discuss the Haitian Creole Program Haitian Creole Language & Culture Program, language trauma & bilingualism, and my appointment as Adjunct Lecturer at IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies this fall. Watch the full interview ⬇️

I am excited to share the cover and description of my forthcoming book "From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Impacts of Racial Trauma in Black Communities from the Colonial Era to the Present". Out Nov. 25. Pre-order at Amazon: amazon.ca/Enlightenment-…

“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…

I spent time in Springfield OH reporting on Haitian migration. Some of the nasty misinfo being echoed today was already circulating. I spoke to officer Jason Via, Deputy Director Public Safety: "We haven't really seen any of that. It's really frustrating" npr.org/2024/08/12/nx-…

For those interested in where Sundown Towns are located, I’ve put the map link in the comments. This is real time and updated often.

Celebrating my #Haitian friends & community; talented scholars, musicians, artisans, compassionate community leaders, beautiful souls. Over the past year in my hometown Indiana, we’ve grown together. They are making the area a more vibrant/hopeful place🇭🇹❤️