For its 80th anniversary, the U.N. asserts we are "better together." Since its founding, the U.N.'s survival has depended on how it positions itself in situations of injustice. The story of the U.N. is the story of Congo. Read my latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/123129/unite...

The national racial gaslighting is at an all time high. I thought they had reached their peak already, but they are aspiring to higher heights.

Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

Also this morning the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission held a hearing at the Reginald Lewis museum in Baltimore. Lovely to reconnect with old friends & colleagues & to meet new friends committed to the work of true repair.

Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416...

Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.

As someone who’s always been critical of Pax Americana, I’m nevertheless terrified by how swiftly it is ending. A thoughtful essay (and great reading list!) by the brilliant @matiangai.bsky.social is a guide on how to keep dreaming (and working) in this moment. www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Tour de force by @matiangai.bsky.social now up on @justsecurity.org “The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.” www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Pax Americana and the rules-based international order have always been built on flawed foundations, writes @matiangai.bsky.social

“The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.”

www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿
youtu.be/pS80uVTSEmU

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?...

We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege,
racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White
supremacy & saviorism
shape global health then and now.

Happening today a convo at 4 PM EST on zones of sacrifice and how power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze + White supremacy & saviorism shape global health.

Register:

umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

Join @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on White Health & International Law Wed. 12/4 at 4:00PM EST.

This is not a drill calling all #globalhealth #internationallaw #racialjustice #publichealth #academicsky
#blackademics

Hybrid event register:
umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

Selective prosecution convo missing the reality of over policing of people singled out routinely based on class, race, addiction, housing insecurity etc... Where are their pardons? What of the efforts to break the millions ensnared in this unjust legal system? When will enough be enough for them?

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Finally for my latest piece for the Arab Center, I wrote about the perils of understanding the crisis of displacement in Sudan solely as a "humanitarian" tragedy rather than a politically manufactured horror of racial capitalism that values profit over human lives.

arabcenterdc.org/resource/war...

Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf).

I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law.

I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine.

Views are mine 👇🏿