Beverly Daniel Tatum
@bdtauthor.bsky.social
NYT best-selling author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race; President Emerita of Spelman College; Committed to the ABCs: affirming identity, building community, and cultivating leadership
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Leadership matters!
October 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Leadership matters!
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A hopeful read!
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
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October 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A hopeful read!
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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TUNE IN MONDAY to the Morning Show 8-10am PT on @ksvysonoma.bsky.social Guests> Ken Wayne; Fred Allebach; Susan Kirsch; @bdtauthor.bsky.social on her new book, PERIL AND PROMISE; Karen Kilian; & @thantmyintu.bsky.social on his new book, PEACEMAKER. Listen LIVE to 91.3 FM locally or at ksvy.org.
September 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
TUNE IN MONDAY to the Morning Show 8-10am PT on @ksvysonoma.bsky.social Guests> Ken Wayne; Fred Allebach; Susan Kirsch; @bdtauthor.bsky.social on her new book, PERIL AND PROMISE; Karen Kilian; & @thantmyintu.bsky.social on his new book, PEACEMAKER. Listen LIVE to 91.3 FM locally or at ksvy.org.
Yesterday (9/15/25) “Closer Look” host Rose Scott aired the recorded conversation we had at Spelman College about my new book, Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times. If you missed it, you can check it out here:
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Not a memoir, but a manual: Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum on leading higher education from challenges to joys
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, the former president of Spelman College, is sharing what she calls an insider’s guide to leadership in higher education. “Closer Look” host Rose Scott recently sat down with ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Yesterday (9/15/25) “Closer Look” host Rose Scott aired the recorded conversation we had at Spelman College about my new book, Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times. If you missed it, you can check it out here:
www.wabe.org/not-a-memoir...
www.wabe.org/not-a-memoir...
Thanks to Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley for hosting a conversation about Peril and Promise and book signing on campus this week! Great to see the campus thriving under her leadership!
September 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thanks to Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley for hosting a conversation about Peril and Promise and book signing on campus this week! Great to see the campus thriving under her leadership!
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The kids are all right, as they say:
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Harvard Will Have to Sacrifice Something. It Should Be Our Funding. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
In these trying times, it is the responsibility of students and affiliates to resist federal concessions in any way possible. Relinquishing our responsibility to defend higher education will come at g...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The kids are all right, as they say:
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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I could not agree more!
#PerilandPromise
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
#PerilandPromise
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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September 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I could not agree more!
#PerilandPromise
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
#PerilandPromise
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Enjoyed my conversation with WDET journalist CaryJunior II about free speech and academic freedom on college campuses. Take a listen:
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Former college president encourages dialogue to solve higher ed conflicts - The Metro
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When protests on college campuses in response to the Israel-Hamas war erupted across the nation, leaders at some universities cracked down.</span></p>
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September 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Enjoyed my conversation with WDET journalist CaryJunior II about free speech and academic freedom on college campuses. Take a listen:
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NEW REVIEW: John Hawthorne reviews the newest title from Beverly Daniel Tatum
Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times @jwhawthorne.bsky.social @bdtauthor.bsky.social
Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times @jwhawthorne.bsky.social @bdtauthor.bsky.social
Beverly Daniel Tatum – Peril and Promise [Review]
Theology News & Book Reviews for Christian Readers
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September 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
NEW REVIEW: John Hawthorne reviews the newest title from Beverly Daniel Tatum
Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times @jwhawthorne.bsky.social @bdtauthor.bsky.social
Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times @jwhawthorne.bsky.social @bdtauthor.bsky.social
Thank you @jwhawthorne.bsky.social for such a thoughtful review of my book!
Beverly Daniel Tatum's Peril and Promise
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Anyone who wants to understand what higher education is really like would benefit from reading Peril and Promise. Truly, there’s far more of the latter than the former.
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Anyone who wants to understand what higher education is really like would benefit from reading Peril and Promise. Truly, there’s far more of the latter than the former.
@bdtauthor.bsky.social @erbks.bsky.social
Beverly Daniel Tatum's Peril and Promise
A College President's Perspective
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September 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Thank you @jwhawthorne.bsky.social for such a thoughtful review of my book!
Those who don’t know their history don’t recognize when it’s being repeated.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
September 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Those who don’t know their history don’t recognize when it’s being repeated.
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Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
Looks like another example of historical erasure underway!
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Looks like another example of historical erasure underway!
According to a 2023 Opportunity Insights study (conducted by a group of Harvard economists) of admissions to Ivy-Plus colleges, among the most elite in the U.S., “the largest beneficiaries of preferential treatment in admissions: wealthy and connected white students.”
September 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
According to a 2023 Opportunity Insights study (conducted by a group of Harvard economists) of admissions to Ivy-Plus colleges, among the most elite in the U.S., “the largest beneficiaries of preferential treatment in admissions: wealthy and connected white students.”
It’s Publication Day! Excited to find Peril and Promise in the “New and Noteworthy” section of my local Barnes & Noble!
September 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s Publication Day! Excited to find Peril and Promise in the “New and Noteworthy” section of my local Barnes & Noble!
Thanks to @jillwatts.bsky.social and her book, The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt for making the history of my grandmother and other African American change agents visible! #NoErasure!
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thanks to @jillwatts.bsky.social and her book, The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt for making the history of my grandmother and other African American change agents visible! #NoErasure!
My grandmother, Constance Daniel, a member of Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” was fired from her job at the Dept of Agriculture in 1942 for publicly criticizing the Farm Security Administration for using federal dollars to pay poll taxes for southern White farmers but not for Black farmers.
September 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My grandmother, Constance Daniel, a member of Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” was fired from her job at the Dept of Agriculture in 1942 for publicly criticizing the Farm Security Administration for using federal dollars to pay poll taxes for southern White farmers but not for Black farmers.
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
On this Labor Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about this article and I am reminded of what happened to my grandmother in 1942, one of few Black women working in the Roosevelt administration.
On this Labor Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about this article and I am reminded of what happened to my grandmother in 1942, one of few Black women working in the Roosevelt administration.
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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September 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
On this Labor Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about this article and I am reminded of what happened to my grandmother in 1942, one of few Black women working in the Roosevelt administration.
On this Labor Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about this article and I am reminded of what happened to my grandmother in 1942, one of few Black women working in the Roosevelt administration.
Academic leadership in uncertain times | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Academic leadership in uncertain times
A former college president offers advice for administrators navigating unprecedented challenges
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August 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Academic leadership in uncertain times | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big news! You can register for free to watch my conversation with Ian Wilhelm at the Chronicle Festival! ✨
In this interview, we discussed leadership, challenges on campus, and my new book Peril and Promise. Don’t miss it!
Register here - shorturl.at/Oq6GM
In this interview, we discussed leadership, challenges on campus, and my new book Peril and Promise. Don’t miss it!
Register here - shorturl.at/Oq6GM
Chronicle Festival 2025: Innovation Amid Uncertainty
Join college leaders, experts, and changemakers at the Chronicle Festival as they share ideas for navigating the future — and shaping it.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Big news! You can register for free to watch my conversation with Ian Wilhelm at the Chronicle Festival! ✨
In this interview, we discussed leadership, challenges on campus, and my new book Peril and Promise. Don’t miss it!
Register here - shorturl.at/Oq6GM
In this interview, we discussed leadership, challenges on campus, and my new book Peril and Promise. Don’t miss it!
Register here - shorturl.at/Oq6GM
✨ Just up on Forbes! ✨ My forthcoming book Peril and Promise earns praise from scholar Marybeth Gasman: “Beverly Daniel Tatum offers both a warning and a sense of hope. Her newest book is needed right now by leaders.” Grateful my message resonates with leaders. shorturl.at/5vZ32
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
✨ Just up on Forbes! ✨ My forthcoming book Peril and Promise earns praise from scholar Marybeth Gasman: “Beverly Daniel Tatum offers both a warning and a sense of hope. Her newest book is needed right now by leaders.” Grateful my message resonates with leaders. shorturl.at/5vZ32