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The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education by Drs. @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and me: citejournal.org/volume-25/is...

Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning This article provides a comparative case study of two connected learning experiences in teacher education that vary in scope, participants, time, and design to consider the questions: 1) What chara...

Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning by Drs. me, Cherise McBride, and @justmaybechris.bsky.social (also, RIP the bird app & the way we used to connect via SM for this one) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

may god bless the thankful poor | Friends of the Tanner House x Swann Auction Galleries Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry…

COMMENTS: Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Thankful Poor. (9/29/2025)

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NEW! Our people fought to make space for all our children to learn in-depth about the Black historical struggle through their public education. This effort is a community driven initiative and reminder that we do this work on behalf of them. Join us online October 18. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One of the most important scenes of all time.

🙏🏾. Grateful to have been invited into conversation at AAMP next Saturday around one of my favorite films of all time Spook Who Sat By The Door. Come through and hear the stories of how many people wished, sacrificed, and risked to give us this classic.

Storefront for Art and Architecture

"Serving as an art school w/ studios, art residency, library, open kitchen, + garden simultaneously, Sertão Negro is more than an institution—it is a holistic school rooted in Black cultural traditions + the spirit of the quilombo, where art, food, housing, + land are the grounds for communal life"

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!

Yeah, it’s a fundraiser. We need it to be shared

😎. FUNDRAISER PREVIEW EDITIONS ARE HERE! GET YOURS! DEBUT: AUGUST 22 at the FALL ABOLITION SCHOOL MIXER. See slide for details.

DONATE NOW VIA GOFUNDME. gofund.me/622d53ae

Sadie T.M. Alexander, caught in the crossfire of a war to control America’s past | Will Bunch Penn's law school's pause of a scholarship honoring a pioneering Black woman highlights a campaign to erase America's history.

“We know that [Alexander’s] legacy stands for civil rights,” Rogers said. “It stands for justice, it stands for equity, it stands for democracy, it stands for knowledge. And so, if they are invested in those things, it's definitely surprising to see them sell out...” www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...

Penn Carey Law’s decision to pause scholarship, close equal opportunity office draws fire: ‘A racial attack’ Critics included the daughter of Sadie Alexander, for whom the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander scholarship was named. It was given to students who wanted to focus on racial justice.

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Crime Data: Three Things for Abolitionists to Consider — Abolition Journal | A Project of the W.E.B. Du Bois School for Abolition & Reconstruction Abolition Journal is the publication platform of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. We study the world to change it.

Much of the analysis of crime data is directed to opponents of abolition.

Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.

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Anatomy of a Red Scare As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.

Witchwords. This is what W.E.B. Du Bois called discourse or phrases used to discredit or repress political critiques or organizing.

As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare.

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The Measure of the World By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.

Dionne Brand is one our greatest literary thinkers, and this profile of her is a great read.

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FRESHLY PRESSED. I have new work out. Columns: Black Youth Futures: Experimental Medicine: A Winter Break Reflection on "Me-First" Language Arts
Author(s): Christopher R. Rogers
Source: English Journal, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2025, p. 82-85
DOI: lnkd.in/eNecy_et
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I’m throwing a party w one of my fav people @justmaybechris.bsky.social in a Safer Movements Collective x Chester Gifted Program collab!!!

join us Friday, August 1st for MAMAS COOKOUT 👩🏽‍🍳 there will be abolition trivia! a care corner! a kids space by the Philly Childcare Collective! prizes! dancing!

Philly Abortion Doula Provides Cooking, Clinics, and Child Care to Pregnant Patients “Tell me what you need, and I’ll tell you what we can do,” the doula says.

There’s a lot of mutual aid work being done to combat the errors of our government. I spent an afternoon with the Philly Abortion Doula to learn what she’s focusing on rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/16/p...

“We’d want to know what in the hell you say?”

“Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few. Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests.”– June Jordan

💪🏾 Good News today. My first RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE received seed funding today. “Fugitive Poetry Pedagogies for the People” coming soon. Am opportunity to build up Black Philadelphia literary lesson plans and support a generation of local Black poets and writers in the process.

"[Enslaved people] ingeniously employed 'waiting time' + communication in codes, symbols, songs, chants, + other means of [obfuscation]—a social network relying on Afrodiasporic technologies... The past, present, + future were interwoven into a collective memory and aspiration for true liberation."

#MamasBasement is back. This month's benefit partner is Hoops Sessions Chester, a FREE violence prevention program that gives Chester teens the opportunity to not only enjoy open gym but also become part of a team and take part in workouts designed to build skills both on and off the court.

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”

@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

A photo of protesters gathering to demand an end to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raids in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It."

"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku

Ok, last week of school, let's go!

This the future of retired ball player content. This is it. They found the formula. 🙌🏾

"Poetry is an island that breaks away from the main." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...