Prof J

Prof J

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Scholar - Writer - Editor - Book & Movie Lover

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In her latest works, Tamura Lomax reimagines mothering as a radical act of Black feminist love. @profjch.bsky.social spoke with her about her latest works and the radical vision that guides them.

msmagazine.com'Freeing Black Girls' and 'Loving Black Boys': Tamura Lomax on Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled TimesBlack Feminist in Public: Author of Freeing Black Girls and Loving Black Boys Tamura Lomax in Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled Times
Prof J
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In light of current news (which I should be digesting less of), I'm recycling this great interview I did with Mary N. Elliott, who curated the "Slavery and Freedom" exhibit at Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture:

msmagazine.comA Conversation with Mary N. Elliott, Curator of American Slavery at the Smithsonian MuseumThe Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project features Mary N. Elliott, museum specialist and curator of American slavery at the Smithsonian Museum.
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I had a great conversation with A’Lelia Bundles about her new book Joy Goddess about her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker: msmagazine.com/2025/06/11/a...

msmagazine.comA'Lelia Bundles Claims Family History and Black Cultural Legacies With New Book 'Joy Goddess''Langston Hughes called the 'Joy Goddess' of Harlem's 1920s,' said A’Lelia Bundles, great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker and author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance...
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Today marks the 162nd anniversary of the Harriet Tubman-led Combahee River Raid. I'm proud to have interviewed Edda L. Edda Fields-Black who won the Pulitzer Prize in history for her book Combee about this historic milestone, featured in @msmagazine.com:

msmagazine.comDocumenting Harriet Tubman’s Leadership: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River RaidHistorian Edda L. Fields-Black and Janell Hobson reflect on Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.
Prof J
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"Last year, the Heritage Foundation, the think tank responsible for the Project 2025 roadmap for Trump’s second term, recommended that the government defund higher education, claiming that more educated women tend to have fewer babies."

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“If Vice President JD Vance has his way, our whole electoral process may be recalibrating around this new pronatal biopolitics.” #MsReads via @motherjones.com

motherjones.comWhy Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More BabiesMy strange weekend with the pronatalists.

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
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The klan, the police, the butcher, baker and candlestick maker in every little Southern hamlet used to disappear Black people too. When they didn't step off the street. When they whistled. When they bought a new suit and stood too straight. Fascism isn't new here. It's coming for you too.

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Greg Pak
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"I don't know anything about it" In a functioning democracy, Hegseth would resign and Trump would be impeached over this. OVER JUST THIS.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Trump asked about his Cabinet officials including Jeffrey Goldberg on a secret war plan Signal exchange: "I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that’s going out of business. It’s not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it."

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Roxane Gay
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If the Democrats don’t make an absolute buffet out of this group chat national security scandal, primary each and every one of them. It’s literally on a silver platter.

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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

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Alt National Park Service
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Remember, the president does not have the authority to unilaterally shut down the Education Department. Doing so would require an act of Congress and at least 60 votes in the Senate.