@hofrench.bsky.social
Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
A discussion about my new book, The Second Emancipation, on the PBS program The White House Chronicle, with Adam Clayton Powell III and Llewellyn King: whchronicle.com
04.10.2025 12:35 β π 41 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0We screened it at Yale this week, followed by a fantastic (and sobering) Q&A. Howard French, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Raoul Peckβitβs been a remarkable two weeks here!
04.10.2025 15:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe more than five minutes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/a...
04.10.2025 13:34 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A discussion about my new book, The Second Emancipation, on the PBS program The White House Chronicle, with Adam Clayton Powell III and Llewellyn King: whchronicle.com
04.10.2025 12:35 β π 41 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Me too.
04.10.2025 02:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Raoul Peck's new documentary. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
03.10.2025 17:11 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1Happening now.
02.10.2025 21:08 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Excellent essay about a strong new book by @marcusrediker.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
02.10.2025 13:59 β π 51 π 21 π¬ 1 π 1Anyone running for mayor who doesn't call this out is disqualified. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...
02.10.2025 02:00 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Here we go again. If Cuomo and Sliwa can't find the words to denounce this, they are in effect, denouncing themselves.
01.10.2025 16:35 β π 23 π 11 π¬ 1 π 0We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.
01.10.2025 16:33 β π 2243 π 773 π¬ 73 π 22Reading, on a new Bruce Lee biography, by Jeff Chang. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
01.10.2025 14:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
01.10.2025 13:42 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Headlines that pack a punch.
01.10.2025 13:27 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Reading. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30.09.2025 20:49 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
30.09.2025 13:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The guy who said that diversity is not a source of strength, and who believed that calling it the "War Department" would induce fear and respect overseas.
30.09.2025 12:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of my great recent pleasures as an author has been seeing the list of foreign editions of my books grow. Just learned that The Second Emancipation will be published in Ukraine, and is already being translated into French). Π‘Π»Π°Π²Π° Π£ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ½Ρ!
30.09.2025 12:29 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happening now.
28.09.2025 21:59 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The emptiness of Hakeem Jeffries.
28.09.2025 20:36 β π 74 π 18 π¬ 12 π 4My latest:βThrough gossamer tributes, Kirkβs cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated βlike a position on tax rates or health care policy.β
28.09.2025 15:04 β π 2201 π 635 π¬ 46 π 43It's all right here, really.
28.09.2025 13:37 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1In which Ezra Klein labors to clean up after a monumentally wrong take on Charlie Kirk's politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
28.09.2025 13:37 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1Hear, hear.
28.09.2025 13:21 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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