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Kate Kushner
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she/her, History PhD candidate at Princeton University studying southern & African American history. Yale & NCSSM grad.
I'm so excited to read this!
Today is the last day to pre-order BLACK EXCELLENCE with the Penn Press Summer Sale discount! Enter PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout to save 40%!

Official publication on publication date is September 2!

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Black Excellence – Penn Press
A provocative new history of modern black liberalismBlack Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly c...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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My book on policing and resistance under Jim Crow authoritarianism is available for pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social! Code 01SOCIAL30 saves 30%!

Better yet, suggest its purchase at your local library.

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Mississippi Law | Justin Randolph | University of North Carolina Press
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside ...
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April 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Richards Center is excited to welcome Halee Robinson and Joshua Strayhorn to the community as the 2025-2026 incoming postdoctoral scholars. Halee will receive her PhD later this month from Princeton University and Joshua received his PhD degree from Duke University. Welcome Halee and Joshua!! 🎉
May 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Just absolute monsters whose entire reason for being is to inflict maximal cruelty while enriching
themselves.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
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April 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the ending...wow.
December 13, 2024 at 12:22 AM
I love his performance of "Nothing Can Change This Love" on that album. It's *such* a good live album.
It's been 60 years since the world lost Sam Cooke, "the man who invented soul" and one of my favorite voices. Here is one of his best live performances.

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Bring It on Home to Me (Live at the Harlem Square Club, Miami, FL - January 1963)
YouTube video by Sam Cooke - Topic
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December 12, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans
Kavanaugh also brings up "detransitioners," people who "regret" their decision to transition genders. Like Alito, he cites European countries that are "pulling back" from gender-affirming care for minors, saying it's a "yellow light" or "red light" for the court that Europe is "pumping the brakes."
December 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship?
snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...
Dictators for a Day
South Korea and America
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December 4, 2024 at 7:17 PM