The Gray Sage

Imagine turning sundown towns into Afrofuturist communities.

Throughout the history of activism, peaceful protest is one of the most sacred forms of promoting change. There are countless ways within our reach: Litigation—voter registration—poll volunteering—advocating to Congress. Read more: www.lwv.org/blog/uniting... @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

Taking time to reflect on the power of young leaders to transform institutions. #Skystorians

Bond yields reverse higher. 🇺🇸

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🚨U.S. inflation rises to 3% in September as prices increase at the fastest rate since January.

The White House says they will likely not release October’s inflation data next month, blaming the shutdown.

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👋 Say hi to our 2025 Emerging Reporters: Annabelle Ink, Lee Ann Anderson, Safa Wahidi, Kahlie Wray and Gabriel Velasquez Neira!

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The SS was filled to the brim with society's rejects who were too stupid and incompetent to get any other sort of position. This is a feature, not a bug of authoritarian regimes. Incompetence breeds atrocities.

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The HIDDEN VOICES series of histories and posters provide an extensive collection of scholarly materials to educators around the world for free! The work on the African diaspora showcases the best collaborative history ever.

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New York City schools adopted the GRAPHIC HISTORY OF HIP HOP in 2023. It became an Amazon bestseller the next year. Hundreds of graphic histories are now used around the world to inspire students to achieve.

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It won the 2025 Cooper/James Prize for research from the National Council for Black Studies.

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ILLMATIC CONSEQUENCES came out in the same year as the reparations book. It highlighted the specifics of critical race theory, the ways it was distorted by fascist activists, and the ways Afrofuturism can move the world forward.

we are at nearly at peak inflation level numbers on people seeing the economy as "getting worse"

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After a decade of additional research in economic history, the social history of capitalism shaped the analysis of housing markets and reparations in THE BLACK REPARATIONS PROJECT. The book was a PROSE prize finalist in 2024.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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In 2014, SUBURBAN ERASURE won the top research prize for non-fiction about New Jersey. Within three years, it changed the language of spatial analysis by emphasizing the destruction of Black communities to create wealthy suburbs.

Faculty group urges Yale to reject potential Trump compact offer In a Thursday email addressed to the Yale community, Yale’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors urged faculty members to ask administrators to reject a possible compact from t...

Yale AAUP urges University administration to reject a potential federal compact as “a severe threat to academic freedom and to the students and faculty at Yale.”

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Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

“Investors in the markets are always looking for information that they can use to understand what the future looks like. We actually have knowledge of what the future looks like, in terms of climate, in a way that we don’t have in anything else in the markets.”

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

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After this long journey, it is time for a serious vacation. #Blackademics

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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

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Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

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“My first reaction, honestly, was to laugh, which is not usually my initial reaction when viewing protest videos,” said Tim Zick, a professor of Law at William & Mary Law School and author of “Managed Dissent: The Law of Public Protest." "It’s clever satire.”

Huge library available through my YouTube playlists.

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To DaVinci, From Imhotep

“Convergence” was the process of create global, digital, information infrastructure between 1999 and 2015.

“Counterconvergence” has been the process of consolidating control of that infrastructure since 2016.

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Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/

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Huge thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social & @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social for spotlighting this recent episode of the podcast @draftingthepast.bsky.social, where I got to talk about writing a first book of narrative history. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

First, a reminder that these threads are now shared on @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & my Black & White & Read All Over site. She’s put a ton of work into it & it’s a model for creating our own public scholarly spaces & solidarity, so check it out & subscribe if you like what we’re doing there, thanks!