@slavecodes.org

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂

@rude1.blacksky.team

Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂ CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places [ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ] prev. @harvard.edu Fellow 🏴‍☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ] Board @pactcollective.xyz TSC @lexicon.community move fast & break chains Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ

Vanessa Williamson

@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social

Author of "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History." Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center.

Citizen.Coping

@propcazhpm.bsky.social

⛔️ Pls don't follow with 0️⃣ posts or with no alt-text on posts with images or with no bio/profile🖼 Seriously. Beware 📌. Posts are impermanent. Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.

Michael Harriot

@michaelharriot.bsky.social

Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones.bsky.social

TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish

Dr. Allison Wiltz

@allyfromnola.bsky.social

Black womanist scholar with a PhD from New Orleans, LA. Bylines in Momentum, Oprah Daily, ZORA, Cultured #WEOC Founder. allisonthedailywriter.com

Ana Lucia Araujo

@araujohistorian.bsky.social

Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org

Seth Rockman

@sethrockman.bsky.social

Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html

Brandon Tensley

@brandontensley.bsky.social

Now: National Politics Reporter, Capital B, a Black-focused nonprofit newsroom. Before: National Political Writer, CNN. Writing a book about Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight for 33 1/3. Email: brandon.tensley@capitalbnews.org | Signal: btensley.53

Sarah J. Jackson

@sjjphd.bsky.social

Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics. Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more. Typos and opinions both mine. Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS

Omar Wasow

@owasow.bsky.social

Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

@ebonyteach.blacksky.app

I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.

Perry Bacon

@perrybaconjr.bsky.social

Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !

Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)

Victor Ray

@victorerikray.bsky.social

Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Larry Glickman

@larryglickman.bsky.social

Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.

Capital B

@capitalb.bsky.social

News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta: @capitalbgary.bsky.social & @capitalbatl.bsky.social

Dominique Baker

@bakerdphd.bsky.social

Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her Personal account https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)

@markanthonyneal.bsky.social

Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).

Carole V. Bell

@cvbell.bsky.social

🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell

Brian Highsmith

@bhighsmith.bsky.social

institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA

Lauren Williams

@laurenwilliams.bsky.social

CEO + Cofounder, capitalbnews.org

Straight Outta Brooklyn

@chriscarrega.bsky.social

A veteran criminal justice reporter and adjunct professor turning a new leaf. Priors: @CapitalB @CNN @ABC 2 top U.S. tabloid newspapers. 🇧🇧🇬🇾 #NABJ #SJUAlumni Isaiah 54:17

Aallyah Wright

@aallyahpatrice.bsky.social

Journalist focused on rural Black America 🌎 A daughter of the Mississippi Delta 🌻 https://capitalbnews.org/author/aallyah-wright/

Soraya Nadia McDonald

@soraya.press

proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press 📍Brooklyn

Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/

Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/

Hakeem Jefferson

@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press. Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.