Activists! Organizers! Ashanté M. Reese and Ashley D. Farmer have organized this FREEDOM SCHOOL. Share widely, please.

Get ready for an impactful 2024 Racial Justice Summit! Friday, September 20 at Rutgers–Camden. Hear from experts on environmental & housing justice, keynote Arielle V. King, and RAJU fellows. Don’t miss out! #RacialJusticeSummit Reserve your free spot: go.rutgers.edu/RAJU-Summit

The devastation of state abandonment and police and vigilante violence after Katrina 19 years ago have forever shaped my consciousness especially because I had Claudrena Harold & others to teach me. May those who perished and those still fighting continue to inspire our struggle.

Fred Hampton was born Aug. 30, 1948

Calling all historians specializing in Africa! Rutgers New Brunswick is hiring. Deadline 10/15/24 - jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/234558. Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes) ASWAD AAIHS ABWH Truth Leslie Alexander

NO DRIVERS NO TENNESSEE - NASHVILLE’S 31 BILLION DOLLAR TOURISM INDUSTRY IS DEPENDENT ON DRIVER LABOR💥💥💥🚗

Good first day back at Hunter College Geography & Environmental Science and the first class of my new Black Geographies and Ecologies class. I'll take it as a compliment that a number of students from previous classes signed up for the new class

Standing with the Taxi Drivers who started their wildcat Strike today in Tennessee‼️ I was asked to share! LFG 🔥#OrganizetheSouth #Hotlaborsummer ✊🏽

The only joy that I can muster in this moment is the knowledge that I don’t actually have to make some heart wrenching choice between my future and those of folks in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and Haiti. The only choice for our collective future is solidarity. That’s it.

I forgot about this! Folks who survived Katrina showing their solidarity with Iraqis who were being slaughtered by the U.S. military in the name of our “freedom.”

An update from the church in Gaza. Lord have mercy

"writers cannot leave governments, Empires to their own devices."-- Toni Morrison, 1986

Nearly 4,000 Firestone rubber workers in Liberia win their union election in a landslide 👊 Needless to say the worker organizers are fired up 🔥

BREAKING: Workers at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor have walked off the job and onto the picket line. We refuse to accept wages that can’t support our families. It’s insulting. And it ends now.

#Blacksound is now available as an audio book on Audiobooks.com Audible and other major retailers, read by me (the author) — in case you’d like to listen 🎧 🖤 audiobooks.com/audiobook/blac…

HAPPENING NOW: Columbia students are picketing on the first day of classes to demand the university divest from Israel. As the admin works to suppress their right to peacefully protest for Gaza, students say they’re more determined than ever to mobilize.

Teaching AfAm Lit and the Environment course this semester and the first novel we’re reading is Blake, Or the Huts of America. Getting into all things Great Dismal Swamp

OMG!!!!! I can’t believe it is out in the world!!! Please order your copy today and let me know what you think.

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture invites applications for its inaugural Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia. Fellowship Benefits: Stipend of $8K for a minimum of six weeks in residence at Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Deadline: Sept. 27

“…white capitalist society itself is a crime and is the greatest teacher of corruption and violence.” -Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin