Aran Shetterly
@aranshetterly.bsky.social
Author of Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul & The Americano: Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom. Mexicophile, developmental editor, runner, birder, dad, Mainer in VA. https://www.aranshetterly.com
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Morningside
An unflinching look at the all but forgotten though no less shocking 1979 racial tragedy that divided Greensboro, N.C., and the nation, and the grassroots activists who, in their tireless fight for ju...
www.harpercollins.com
Hi @lollardfish.bsky.social! Reporting the recent release of my book, MORNINGSIDE. (I see we share a publisher.) Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) calls it "riveting", "a wild ride", "essential" and "moving". A lot to live up to, but I hope readers will find inspiration in it. bit.ly/3Dc6w2Q
@kaine.senate.gov A lot of workers are hanging tough and not complaining about missing paychecks because they want a win on healthcare. Dems won big Tuesday. You have the upper hand. There's no guarantee we'll have fair midterms. I don't understand the logic of giving Trump what he wants right now?
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
@kaine.senate.gov A lot of workers are hanging tough and not complaining about missing paychecks because they want a win on healthcare. Dems won big Tuesday. You have the upper hand. There's no guarantee we'll have fair midterms. I don't understand the logic of giving Trump what he wants right now?
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Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.
Mamdani. Most exciting thing to happen in American politics in a long time. Now he's got to deliver the change people want. We can help be demystifying democratic socialism and keeping the fear mongers at bay.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Mamdani. Most exciting thing to happen in American politics in a long time. Now he's got to deliver the change people want. We can help be demystifying democratic socialism and keeping the fear mongers at bay.
Thank you @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social for this deep and wise reading of my book #MORNINGSIDE. Here's Jonathan's piece Hope in the face of racist backlash christiancentury.org/books/hope-f... @monogramdp.bsky.social @lissawarren.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
Hope in the face of racist backlash
Aran Shetterly celebrates Greensboro massacre survivors Nelson and Joyce Johnson as great moral...
christiancentury.org
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thank you @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social for this deep and wise reading of my book #MORNINGSIDE. Here's Jonathan's piece Hope in the face of racist backlash christiancentury.org/books/hope-f... @monogramdp.bsky.social @lissawarren.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
What's up with Pete Hegseth's obsession with the male physique?
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
What's up with Pete Hegseth's obsession with the male physique?
Excited to be part of the 2025 @texasbookfest.bsky.social ! Texas friends, hope to see ya there!
September 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Excited to be part of the 2025 @texasbookfest.bsky.social ! Texas friends, hope to see ya there!
"We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible, because man has been delivered...into the hands of history and can no longer turn toward that part of himself which is as true as the historic parts...which he discovers when he confronts the beauty of the world and people's faces." Camus
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible, because man has been delivered...into the hands of history and can no longer turn toward that part of himself which is as true as the historic parts...which he discovers when he confronts the beauty of the world and people's faces." Camus
It took 15 years for Congress to pass a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. The vote in 1983 was 338 for and 90 against. Said King,
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It took 15 years for Congress to pass a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. The vote in 1983 was 338 for and 90 against. Said King,
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."
Yes. Wrong to kill. Prayers. Always prayers. And, it must be said, spreading hate carries risk.
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Yes. Wrong to kill. Prayers. Always prayers. And, it must be said, spreading hate carries risk.
Honored to be among this cohort of amazing writers and thinkers about the African American experience in the United States. @amistadbooks.bsky.social @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
118/141 2025 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ
July 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Honored to be among this cohort of amazing writers and thinkers about the African American experience in the United States. @amistadbooks.bsky.social @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
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ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
What a loss to the nation.
May 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What a loss to the nation.
Looking forward to this conversation about writing and reporting and place and, specifically, Greensboro!
This Saturday in Greensboro, NC, ccome to Scuppernong Books for a conversation between me and @AranShetterly.bsky.social about our books and the history that connects the 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the 2018 killing of Marcus Smith.
April 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Looking forward to this conversation about writing and reporting and place and, specifically, Greensboro!
Looking forward to this conversation with my friend, @ianmcdowell.bsky.social
On April 19, a week from Saturday, at Scuppernong Books, @AranShetterly.bsky.social & I will discuss the historical links between our two books.
scuppernongbooks.com/event/2025-0...
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Aran Shetterly & Ian McDowell, Greensboro's Evolving Civil Rights History
scuppernongbooks.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Looking forward to this conversation with my friend, @ianmcdowell.bsky.social
Yup.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Yup.
Relative to the illegal arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. A Federal attorney told me recently that a DoJ order has come down demanding dramatic arrests. Rather than street arrests, they want home arrests. These endanger everyone involved. Anyone seen the paperwork on this?
March 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Relative to the illegal arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. A Federal attorney told me recently that a DoJ order has come down demanding dramatic arrests. Rather than street arrests, they want home arrests. These endanger everyone involved. Anyone seen the paperwork on this?
@kaine.senate.gov Dear Senator Kaine, I hope you and your colleagues will do everything in your power to stop the illegal arrest (state kidnapping) of Mahmoud Khalil. The president has promised more illegal detentions. This is a test.
March 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@kaine.senate.gov Dear Senator Kaine, I hope you and your colleagues will do everything in your power to stop the illegal arrest (state kidnapping) of Mahmoud Khalil. The president has promised more illegal detentions. This is a test.
WTF with the "she loves me, she loves me not" approach to tariffs. Pure chaos. What's the plan? It's like he's playing freeze tag with the world economy.
March 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
WTF with the "she loves me, she loves me not" approach to tariffs. Pure chaos. What's the plan? It's like he's playing freeze tag with the world economy.
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I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
@realgdt.bsky.social Sr. del Toro, what are your top 5 to 10 movies to understand Mexico and Mexican society? Saludos!
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
@realgdt.bsky.social Sr. del Toro, what are your top 5 to 10 movies to understand Mexico and Mexican society? Saludos!
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My friend @aranshetterly.bsky.social on the legacy of Rev. Nelson Johnson, and the errors and omissions of his @nytimes.com obituary.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/rev-...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/rev-...
Remembering Rev. Nelson Johnson and the Historical Record | Common Dreams
His clarifying insistence on truth telling will be sorely missed during a time when people are being threatened, demonized, and fired for telling American history’s multiple truths.
www.commondreams.org
March 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My friend @aranshetterly.bsky.social on the legacy of Rev. Nelson Johnson, and the errors and omissions of his @nytimes.com obituary.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/rev-...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/rev-...
It was gratifying to see the @nytimes.com publish an obituary for the great civil and human rights activist Rev. Nelson Johnson. It felt necessary, however, to correct some errors and fill in omissions. See my response on @commondreams.org here: commondreams.org/opinion/rev-...
Remembering Rev. Nelson Johnson and the Historical Record | Common Dreams
His clarifying insistence on truth telling will be sorely missed during a time when people are being threatened, demonized, and fired for telling American history’s multiple truths.
commondreams.org
March 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It was gratifying to see the @nytimes.com publish an obituary for the great civil and human rights activist Rev. Nelson Johnson. It felt necessary, however, to correct some errors and fill in omissions. See my response on @commondreams.org here: commondreams.org/opinion/rev-...
You go, Governor Janet Mills. Thank you. Proud to be a #Mainer
more of this “fuck you, make me” energy please
TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
February 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
You go, Governor Janet Mills. Thank you. Proud to be a #Mainer
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Is there really a contradiction between identity & class politics?
@aranshetterly.bsky.social discusses his powerful new book, Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul. Listen to the full podcast here tinyurl.com/44wjms6y
@aranshetterly.bsky.social discusses his powerful new book, Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul. Listen to the full podcast here tinyurl.com/44wjms6y
February 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Is there really a contradiction between identity & class politics?
@aranshetterly.bsky.social discusses his powerful new book, Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul. Listen to the full podcast here tinyurl.com/44wjms6y
@aranshetterly.bsky.social discusses his powerful new book, Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul. Listen to the full podcast here tinyurl.com/44wjms6y
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My article on the late Rev. Nelson Johnson, the labor organizer turned pastor who was one of the most influential figures in North Carolina’s civil rights history. Greensboro police abetted the KKK/Nazi death squad who killed 5 of his friends in 1979.
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-m...
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-m...
Triad mourns pastor, labor organizer, and civil rights legend Nelson Johnson
Rev. Nelson Johnson, the labor organizer turned pastor who was one of the most influential figures in North Carolina’s civil rights history, died Sunday at the age of 81, after
www.yesweekly.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My article on the late Rev. Nelson Johnson, the labor organizer turned pastor who was one of the most influential figures in North Carolina’s civil rights history. Greensboro police abetted the KKK/Nazi death squad who killed 5 of his friends in 1979.
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-m...
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-m...