So excited to share that my latest paper is now available online in Social Forces! I explore Black residents’ emotional attachment and the agentic nature of their desires to stay in the neighborhood despite it not meeting some material needs. I’m happy to be able to center these experiences!

“Stuck” or still?: place attachment and residential mobility in an urban resource desert

Abstract. What does attachment to place look like in neighborhoods marked by disinvestment? Drawing on nineteen in-depth interviews with Black public housi

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Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Lacee A. Satcher! @laceesatcher.bsky.social‬ @bostoncollege.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/POPfellows

I am thrilled to co-organize with @laceesatcher.bsky.social the mini-conference "Black Placemaking and Worldmaking: Space, Power, and Possibility" at the 2026 Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. If the call resonates with you, please submit your work.

Excited about my latest publication in Qualitative Sociology! I explore how Black residents in a resource scarce ”desert” perceive access to groceries, pharmacies, and parks and why their lived realities often diverge from GIS-based assessments of access. doi.org/10.1007/s111... DM me for a link!

In the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Perceived Access in an Urban Resource Desert - Qualitative Sociology

Neighborhood resource access is a critical determinant of health and well-being, yet traditional measures often overlook the subjective experiences of residents in under-resourced areas. This study ex...

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Yesterday, Rev. William J. Barber delivered the State of Our Union on Black Star Network. @rolandsmartin.bsky.social 🖤 I watched State of the People yesterday on @legaldefensefund.bsky.social @nativelandpod.bsky.social & other accounts. 🖤 Follow black-owned & other nontraditional media. #blacksky

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

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ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it

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Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Joel Mittleman@joeljm.bsky.social · 2y ago

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airport

As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t...

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

I am not sure who needs to hear this, but if you are a scholar who uses state or federal public health data sets, you might want to download them to your computer before they disappear.

And Stanford is right. Don't acquiesce in advance. Don't obey illegal orders.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is worth comparing with the Stanford "no changes necessary" thing earlier today someone posted--two major private universities with exactly the opposite instructions to researchers.

So do something other than issue strongly worded statements for the love of god!

It's been on its deathbed for a while, but it seems like the era of dog-whistle racism has officially passed.

What a terrible day. I hope people can find some peace.

'For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity.' www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

Shattered in the Fire: A Historic Black Haven (Gift Article)

For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity.

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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…

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I talked to the Black residents of Altadena who say they’ve lost everything but hope. “When you escape tragedy, you say, ‘it could have got me.’ It didn’t. So I’m going to keep on going,” said 83-year-old Walt Butler.

Black residents mourn lost homes, history as wildfires scorch Altadena

“All that stuff that you thought was so important can be gone in five minutes.”

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Secondhand cars kill. Especially children.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 2y ago

Like smoking a cigarette, driving a giant SUV/pickup endangers anyone nearby. The narrative power of secondhand smoke galvanized the anti-tobacco movement in the 1980s – and it could do the same for car bloat today. My deep dive, in Vox 🧵 www.vox.com/future-perfe...