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We’ve got 2 finalists for @americanpublish.bsky.social’s 50th annual PROSE Awards!

🙌🏽 TELL HER STORY for Biography and Autobiography
🙌🏽 THE CORONER’S SILENCE for Legal Studies and Criminology

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author's pitch: how Eleanor Bumpurs became "more than my neighbor" Today's author's pitch comes from Professor LaShawn Harris. She is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Her area of expertise includes twentieth century African American His...

new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: distinguished historian @madameclair08.bsky.social pitches her new @beaconpress.bsky.social book, TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
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More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername The 1984 shooting death of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.

40+ years after Eleanor Bumpurs’ death, the public continues to remember her. Her daughter, Mary, says the legacy of her case is to keep her spirit moving. To let people know what happened to her. @madameclair08.bsky.social

More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername The 1984 murder of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.

#OTD 41 years ago, Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black woman with mental health challenges, was killed by the NYPD. Her death still drives calls for police accountability. Historian Ashley Farmer, Bumpurs’ former neighbor, explores why people continue to #SayHerName. buff.ly/j8S3oQP

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Even before police officers went into Eleanor Bumpurs’s house on #TDIH in 1984, she had already been harmed by the city. They did not give her adequate psychiatric services. They did not give her municipal services. @madameclair08.bsky.social

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“Like many New Yorkers, she [Eleanor Bumpurs] witnessed the ravages of Reaganomics on working-class and poor people, including her own family.” — @madameclair08.bsky.social

Read Your Resistance: A Tribute to Black Women Activists - Chicago Review of Books Fall is a time for restart and renewal; a reconnection to routines gleefully abandoned during summer. It is also the busiest season for the publishing of “big” books by “big” authors—like the person…

In a time before viral videos and hashtags, activists and cultural critics invoked Eleanor Bumpurs when talking about police brutality. @madameclair08.bsky.social has written the first ever biography about her, TELL HER STORY. @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

Thank you!😍

Tell Her Story Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City By LaShawn Harris “[An] immersive account . . . With a kaleidoscopic view of the shooting’s aftermath that draws on interviews, court proceedings, and national and international reactions, Harris paints the killing as a major turning point in American political consciousness, when Black activists and the public began to question police treatment of the disabled and mentally ill. The result is an elegantly written and riveting view of a pivotal but little-remembered political sea change.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Harris’s impeccably researched and elegantly written volume brings new visibility to this significant story.” —Ms. Magazine “An excellent study of the 1980s that captures the heart and soul of the social movements that foreshadowed calls to ‘Say her name.’ A timely and necessary book.” —Marcia Chatelain, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America “A powerful and poignant rescuing of the life and tragic murder of Eleanor Bumpurs . . . will both haunt and inspire. . . . Her searing narrative reminds us that this nation’s too-regular and brutal police killings of Black women have always been met by extraordinary family and community mobilization, and the demand for justice.” —Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy “A gripping historical rendition of the tumultuous transition from the hope of the civil rights era to the misguided projections of a presumed post-racial Obama era . . . It is an absolute must-read.” —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership [truncated for space]

Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City by LaShawn Harris. (@madameclair08.bsky.social)

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LaShawn Harris - 8.11.25 Wake Up With WURD w/ Solomon Jones Author LaShawn Harris joins the show. She talks to us about her new book: "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City".

@madameclair08.bsky.social was only 10 yrs old when her neighbor, Eleanor Bumpurs, was shot dead by an NYPD officer. Harris was drawn to her life story because she’d grown up hearing Bumpurs mentioned in hip hop and Spike Lee films.

Hope the pups like the book. 😍🐶

The Enduring Legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, Murdered by the NYPD For Resisting Eviction I spent summer 2017 mustering the courage to contact Mary Bumpurs. Toward the end of that summer, I stood outside Mary’s apartment, hoping she would not slam the door in my face or give me a tongue…

30 years after Eleanor Bumpurs’s death, New Yorkers and those beyond the Empire State continue to #SayHerName. Today’s activists remember her and have introduced her tragic story to new generations of social justice advocates. @madameclair08.bsky.social buff.ly/yzJe3fe

LaShawn Harris - 8.11.25 Wake Up With WURD w/ Solomon Jones Author LaShawn Harris joins the show. She talks to us about her new book: "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City".

Who was Eleanor Bumpers before her fatal encounter with the NYPD on October 29, 1984? @madameclair08.bsky.social wrote TELL HER STORY to uncover Bumpers’s personal history, her dreams and aspirations, who she was as a mother and neighbor.

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@madameclair08.bsky.social’s TELL HER STORY shows how Eleanor Bumpers’s assassination in 1984 set off a movement against police violence. And it’s on @msmagazine.com’s new August books roundup! 🤩

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Through her own personal connection with Eleanor Bumpurs, @madameclair08.bsky.social recounts and honors this #SayHerName memory in TELL HER STORY. And it comes out tomorrow!

The @karenhunter.bsky.social show welcomes Award-Winning Historian; Author of "TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing that Galvanized New York City" – Available Tomorrow! : LaShawn Harris!

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TELL HER STORY, the life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother, Eleanor Bumpers, that changed community activism forever, is “an immersive account.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social, ⭐Starred Review buff.ly/DnytLvf

The Fatal Eviction of Eleanor Bumpurs In her new book "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City," history professor LaShawn Harris shares the full story of Bumpurs's life and death.

"This [eviction] was never a thing for the police to get involved with. What were they going to do, put her in the street?"

Read an excerpt from professor and historian LaShawn Harris's new book, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" here:

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Blurbs are in for "Tell Her Story." Thank you great scholars and friends. Thank you @beaconpress.bsky.social

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It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015 and the Uprising that followed. Many in Baltimore remember the grief, anger and pain of those days, but also the solidarity and organizing that came from taking to the streets and declaring “Whose streets? Our streets.”

Nationwide 'Hands Off!' protests erupt against Trump and Musk Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off!"

Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."

Literary Organizations Release Joint Statement Decrying Anti-Trans Executive Order The American Booksellers Association, Audio Publishers Association, Independent Book Publishers Association, PEN America, and dozens of other orgs issued a letter addressing President Donald Trump's…

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