John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason
@johnmajoreason.bsky.social
“You gotta be rock solid, not to be outsmarted The rise from rock-bottom to one of the top scholars.”
"D’Angelo also chafed at the description of his music as simply neo-soul. “I never claimed I do neo-soul,” he said in a Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014. “When I first came out, I used to always say: ‘I do Black music. I make Black music.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...
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Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
Just published an annual review of a field we're calling "The Political Economy of Policing." It highlights great work on the links between police and society's major political/economic institutions. Thanks to my great coauthors Lauren Hagani and Gabe Rojas. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Political Economy of Policing
This article synthesizes emerging research on the political economy of policing, conceptualized through a Gramscian framework that examines policing as an interinstitutional structure shaped by econom...
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"I know it’s too hot in my prison when the floor is weeping. The walkways are glistening in their own version of sweat upon which we slip, slide and fall."
Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.
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Thirty-one men at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, positioned their bodies in the shape of the letters “SOS." "The SOS is not an isolated event but a symptom of a greater problem." New from @johnmajoreason.bsky.social the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law:
What’s Happening Inside This ICE Facility in Texas Should Shock Your Conscience
We know this is the America that some have fought hard to create. Is this the America that we will accept?
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Give her a break. She needed to order the proper search and rescue outfit for her pictures. That takes time.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last yr.🚨🚨🚨 IT GETS WORSE 😳 "Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN." Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
Today marks the 11th year since Flint officially had its water source switched to the Flint River. Last year, Keishaun Wade, a Flint resident who works with my lab, wrote about how the Flint Water Crisis was not over. The essay is just as relevant now. theemancipator.org/2024/04/25/t...
The Flint water crisis is not over, ten years later
What happened in Flint wasn’t an accident. The media circus is gone, but the injustices that caused the water crisis are still in place.
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One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI” Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
washingtonpost.com
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural
Symbols aren’t just symbols.
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Corporations and the feds say no Diversity Equity but this is acceptable? Y’all ok with this Newman Tractor?
When the reasons your federal grants are rescinded looks sounds like this academic freedom and freedom of speech are both being snuffed out by white supremacy
The contemporary GOP platform is segregationists, and they hope to repeal the entire legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
Howdy Politics@howdypolitics.bsky.social · 2y agoRepublican Charles Cunningham who is Black just said that the courts were wrong in Brown v Board, the landmark decision to desegregate schools. This is what he said in defense of school vouchers. The bill author did not say anything to disagree.
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
they are segregationists, attacking a monument to the civil rights heroes that destroyed segregation
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2y agoThey're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
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Check out @nicolefcarr.bsky.social’s newletter recapping our discussion of The Great Resegregation with @theemancipator.org’s @ibramxk.bsky.social and @amberpayne.bsky.social. This was part of the 24 hour “State of the People” livestream. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
On dangerous times and "The State of the People"
Ahead of the State of the Union, I joined Amber Payne and Ibram X. Kendi of The Emancipator, alongside sociologist Victor Ray. The topic? The Great Resegregation. History would like a word with us.
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Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:
a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
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Did not know this was Angie Stone … foundational hip hop … RIP: open.spotify.com/track/1Q0oJ2...
Funk You Up - Long Version
Sequence · The Sugar Hill Records Story · Song · 2009
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Naiima Khahaifa, a member of Duke University's African & African American Studies Department presents her research at the @black-think-tank.bsky.social's 1st New Faculty Symposium
These folks sound exactly like Jim Crow-era managers who were "personally in favor" of integration but worried about all the ruckus.
Jared Mitovich@jaredmitovich.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: Two Philly-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the @upenn.edu president on Tuesday after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.” One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...
