Cornell William Brooks
@cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social
Prof., Harvard Kennedy School
V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School
18th NAACP president & CEO
Attorney & 4th Generation Minister
For speaking: http://unitedtalent
V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School
18th NAACP president & CEO
Attorney & 4th Generation Minister
For speaking: http://unitedtalent
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This *is the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism #antisemitism
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This *is the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism #antisemitism
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism
Setti Warren was a vet, mayor, FEMA & White House official, Harvard Kennedy School mentor, teacher, & leader. Seeing Setti on campus in his military jacket sent a message: you can serve America on a battlefield & on a campus with an equal love of country. Setti will be missed.
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Setti Warren was a vet, mayor, FEMA & White House official, Harvard Kennedy School mentor, teacher, & leader. Seeing Setti on campus in his military jacket sent a message: you can serve America on a battlefield & on a campus with an equal love of country. Setti will be missed.
GOVERNMENT
STREET CRIME
There was a shooting by a suspect on a bike near the Harvard campus; no one was hurt or hit. The shelter in place request has just been lifted.
We have way more to fear from masked #ICE kidnappers in unmarked cars than street crime on an otherwise safe campus & community.
STREET CRIME
There was a shooting by a suspect on a bike near the Harvard campus; no one was hurt or hit. The shelter in place request has just been lifted.
We have way more to fear from masked #ICE kidnappers in unmarked cars than street crime on an otherwise safe campus & community.
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
GOVERNMENT
STREET CRIME
There was a shooting by a suspect on a bike near the Harvard campus; no one was hurt or hit. The shelter in place request has just been lifted.
We have way more to fear from masked #ICE kidnappers in unmarked cars than street crime on an otherwise safe campus & community.
STREET CRIME
There was a shooting by a suspect on a bike near the Harvard campus; no one was hurt or hit. The shelter in place request has just been lifted.
We have way more to fear from masked #ICE kidnappers in unmarked cars than street crime on an otherwise safe campus & community.
Consider…
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Consider…
WHERE in the #ICE training manual does it say:
“You point a CAMERA at us,
we point a GUN at you.”?
This is neither normal nor lawful nor sane.
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
“You point a CAMERA at us,
we point a GUN at you.”?
This is neither normal nor lawful nor sane.
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
WHERE in the #ICE training manual does it say:
“You point a CAMERA at us,
we point a GUN at you.”?
This is neither normal nor lawful nor sane.
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
“You point a CAMERA at us,
we point a GUN at you.”?
This is neither normal nor lawful nor sane.
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
DISHONORED &
STOLEN HONOR
Charlie Kirk & Medgar Evers were both assassinated. Kirk was a racist & WW2 veteran Evers sacrificed his life to end racism. The Pentagon tried to erase Ever’s legacy AND now wants you to join the army to honor Kirk ‘s. SHAME.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
STOLEN HONOR
Charlie Kirk & Medgar Evers were both assassinated. Kirk was a racist & WW2 veteran Evers sacrificed his life to end racism. The Pentagon tried to erase Ever’s legacy AND now wants you to join the army to honor Kirk ‘s. SHAME.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
September 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
DISHONORED &
STOLEN HONOR
Charlie Kirk & Medgar Evers were both assassinated. Kirk was a racist & WW2 veteran Evers sacrificed his life to end racism. The Pentagon tried to erase Ever’s legacy AND now wants you to join the army to honor Kirk ‘s. SHAME.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
STOLEN HONOR
Charlie Kirk & Medgar Evers were both assassinated. Kirk was a racist & WW2 veteran Evers sacrificed his life to end racism. The Pentagon tried to erase Ever’s legacy AND now wants you to join the army to honor Kirk ‘s. SHAME.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
ALLIES
There is no skin color, bank balance, or neighborhood to protect you in a racist autocracy. You really think you & your group are safe from armed thugs radicalized online or autocrats in power? Standing alone is a dangerously naive response to a divide conquer strategy.
There is no skin color, bank balance, or neighborhood to protect you in a racist autocracy. You really think you & your group are safe from armed thugs radicalized online or autocrats in power? Standing alone is a dangerously naive response to a divide conquer strategy.
September 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ALLIES
There is no skin color, bank balance, or neighborhood to protect you in a racist autocracy. You really think you & your group are safe from armed thugs radicalized online or autocrats in power? Standing alone is a dangerously naive response to a divide conquer strategy.
There is no skin color, bank balance, or neighborhood to protect you in a racist autocracy. You really think you & your group are safe from armed thugs radicalized online or autocrats in power? Standing alone is a dangerously naive response to a divide conquer strategy.
Describing aloud the dangers we face as a nation requires patriotic courage. The worst form of cowardice is falsely reassuring ourselves that America does not require our voices & our courage. Frederick Douglass bravely spoke unspoken truths aloud & loud. He is a role model in this moment.
September 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Describing aloud the dangers we face as a nation requires patriotic courage. The worst form of cowardice is falsely reassuring ourselves that America does not require our voices & our courage. Frederick Douglass bravely spoke unspoken truths aloud & loud. He is a role model in this moment.
A DOG or A BLACK MAN?
Given a choice between an enslaved Black man or dead dog, #Trump White House apparently chooses dog.
The picture of this brutalized Black man has been removed by the Park Service, but a pic & exhibit of this postal service pet remain in a Smithsonian museum.
Given a choice between an enslaved Black man or dead dog, #Trump White House apparently chooses dog.
The picture of this brutalized Black man has been removed by the Park Service, but a pic & exhibit of this postal service pet remain in a Smithsonian museum.
September 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A DOG or A BLACK MAN?
Given a choice between an enslaved Black man or dead dog, #Trump White House apparently chooses dog.
The picture of this brutalized Black man has been removed by the Park Service, but a pic & exhibit of this postal service pet remain in a Smithsonian museum.
Given a choice between an enslaved Black man or dead dog, #Trump White House apparently chooses dog.
The picture of this brutalized Black man has been removed by the Park Service, but a pic & exhibit of this postal service pet remain in a Smithsonian museum.
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You can’t oppose ONLY hate that affects you & think you’re safe from others. Those who hate Jews assassinate Christians; those who bomb Black churches also bomb synagogues; & those who shoot immigrants also have Americans in their line of fire. #Groyper #CharlieKirkshot
You can’t oppose ONLY hate that affects you & think you’re safe from others. Those who hate Jews assassinate Christians; those who bomb Black churches also bomb synagogues; & those who shoot immigrants also have Americans in their line of fire. #Groyper #CharlieKirkshot
September 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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You can’t oppose ONLY hate that affects you & think you’re safe from others. Those who hate Jews assassinate Christians; those who bomb Black churches also bomb synagogues; & those who shoot immigrants also have Americans in their line of fire. #Groyper #CharlieKirkshot
You can’t oppose ONLY hate that affects you & think you’re safe from others. Those who hate Jews assassinate Christians; those who bomb Black churches also bomb synagogues; & those who shoot immigrants also have Americans in their line of fire. #Groyper #CharlieKirkshot
Here, moral arrogance & historical ignorance insult the legacies of 4 men & fail to invent a legacy for 1.
BTW, for the Christians, “God is not mocked.”
BTW, for the Christians, “God is not mocked.”
September 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here, moral arrogance & historical ignorance insult the legacies of 4 men & fail to invent a legacy for 1.
BTW, for the Christians, “God is not mocked.”
BTW, for the Christians, “God is not mocked.”
Trump will posthumously award racist #CharlieKirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was also given to John Lewis by Obama. An unearned award and flags flown at half staff can’t erase Kirk’s hate. Grieving a death is not license to reinvent a life & legacy.
September 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trump will posthumously award racist #CharlieKirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was also given to John Lewis by Obama. An unearned award and flags flown at half staff can’t erase Kirk’s hate. Grieving a death is not license to reinvent a life & legacy.
On #September11th , 2001, my commuter bus was late arriving at the Pentagon. I remember the hate that crashed planes & ended lives as well as the later hate directed against innocent Muslims, Sikhs, & other “Brown people.” Today, we face new old hates.
September 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
On #September11th , 2001, my commuter bus was late arriving at the Pentagon. I remember the hate that crashed planes & ended lives as well as the later hate directed against innocent Muslims, Sikhs, & other “Brown people.” Today, we face new old hates.
Having preached eulogies as a minister, I can say even sincere grief about a death does not entitle you to lie about a life. Flying the American flag half staff for racist #CharlieKirk but objecting to the same for former Navy Officer & President #JimmyCarter ?
September 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Having preached eulogies as a minister, I can say even sincere grief about a death does not entitle you to lie about a life. Flying the American flag half staff for racist #CharlieKirk but objecting to the same for former Navy Officer & President #JimmyCarter ?
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#CharlieKirk & racism placed me on his “Prof Watchlist,” exposing many of us to threats & even violence. Despite that, our humanity DEMANDS we grieve the evil theft of EVERY human life by #violence. I pray for his family, especially his wife & children.
#unconditionallove
#CharlieKirk & racism placed me on his “Prof Watchlist,” exposing many of us to threats & even violence. Despite that, our humanity DEMANDS we grieve the evil theft of EVERY human life by #violence. I pray for his family, especially his wife & children.
#unconditionallove
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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#CharlieKirk & racism placed me on his “Prof Watchlist,” exposing many of us to threats & even violence. Despite that, our humanity DEMANDS we grieve the evil theft of EVERY human life by #violence. I pray for his family, especially his wife & children.
#unconditionallove
#CharlieKirk & racism placed me on his “Prof Watchlist,” exposing many of us to threats & even violence. Despite that, our humanity DEMANDS we grieve the evil theft of EVERY human life by #violence. I pray for his family, especially his wife & children.
#unconditionallove
A Supreme Court majority just declared IF Justice Sotomayor spoke Spanish in front of a Home Deport, masked ICE agents can #racialprofile & cuff her. If that seems like an exaggeration, read her dissent or just ask profiled “immigrant looking people.”
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Supreme Court majority just declared IF Justice Sotomayor spoke Spanish in front of a Home Deport, masked ICE agents can #racialprofile & cuff her. If that seems like an exaggeration, read her dissent or just ask profiled “immigrant looking people.”
BREAKING
RACIST LOGIC
The absence of Black people in 1 or even 100 protests does not represent the presence of a permission slip for a racist autocrat to occupy the nation’s capital.
The White House refusing to hear dissent does not = Black consent. @AP
#nationalguard
RACIST LOGIC
The absence of Black people in 1 or even 100 protests does not represent the presence of a permission slip for a racist autocrat to occupy the nation’s capital.
The White House refusing to hear dissent does not = Black consent. @AP
#nationalguard
September 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
BREAKING
RACIST LOGIC
The absence of Black people in 1 or even 100 protests does not represent the presence of a permission slip for a racist autocrat to occupy the nation’s capital.
The White House refusing to hear dissent does not = Black consent. @AP
#nationalguard
RACIST LOGIC
The absence of Black people in 1 or even 100 protests does not represent the presence of a permission slip for a racist autocrat to occupy the nation’s capital.
The White House refusing to hear dissent does not = Black consent. @AP
#nationalguard
A DECLARATION OF WAR
By law, the president can only declare war or create a Dept. of War thru Congress
EXCEPTION: when a lawless autocrat declares war de facto by social media—against cities, immigrants, and Black & Brown people to gain control over ALL Americans. #DepartmentOfWar #Chicago
By law, the president can only declare war or create a Dept. of War thru Congress
EXCEPTION: when a lawless autocrat declares war de facto by social media—against cities, immigrants, and Black & Brown people to gain control over ALL Americans. #DepartmentOfWar #Chicago
September 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A DECLARATION OF WAR
By law, the president can only declare war or create a Dept. of War thru Congress
EXCEPTION: when a lawless autocrat declares war de facto by social media—against cities, immigrants, and Black & Brown people to gain control over ALL Americans. #DepartmentOfWar #Chicago
By law, the president can only declare war or create a Dept. of War thru Congress
EXCEPTION: when a lawless autocrat declares war de facto by social media—against cities, immigrants, and Black & Brown people to gain control over ALL Americans. #DepartmentOfWar #Chicago
Our Ancestors Were Messy is such an excellent podcast. Imagine were gossip columnists & historians to spill the tea on the friendship & feud of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes—WITH wit, wisdom, erudition, and humor. GREAT listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Our Ancestors Were Messy is such an excellent podcast. Imagine were gossip columnists & historians to spill the tea on the friendship & feud of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes—WITH wit, wisdom, erudition, and humor. GREAT listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
A racist antisemite slaughtered children in a Catholic school with guns. You don’t have to be Catholic, Jewish, &/or Black to realize hate is like a sawed off shot gun aimed at a crowd. The blast is deadly & indiscriminate. There is no targeted “they,” only an endangered “us.”
August 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A racist antisemite slaughtered children in a Catholic school with guns. You don’t have to be Catholic, Jewish, &/or Black to realize hate is like a sawed off shot gun aimed at a crowd. The blast is deadly & indiscriminate. There is no targeted “they,” only an endangered “us.”
FASHIONABLE FAMILY
This brutha shifted the axis of the earth with the angle of the hat alone 👏🏾@africanarchives.bsky.social
This brutha shifted the axis of the earth with the angle of the hat alone 👏🏾@africanarchives.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
FASHIONABLE FAMILY
This brutha shifted the axis of the earth with the angle of the hat alone 👏🏾@africanarchives.bsky.social
This brutha shifted the axis of the earth with the angle of the hat alone 👏🏾@africanarchives.bsky.social
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America’s capital is invaded by the National Guard, but WHEN the home of ONE former Trump appointee is invaded by the FBI, NOW the threat to democracy seems clear for SOME conservatives. One John Bolton =s the threat to 702,000 DC residents and all 340 million Americans ?
America’s capital is invaded by the National Guard, but WHEN the home of ONE former Trump appointee is invaded by the FBI, NOW the threat to democracy seems clear for SOME conservatives. One John Bolton =s the threat to 702,000 DC residents and all 340 million Americans ?
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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America’s capital is invaded by the National Guard, but WHEN the home of ONE former Trump appointee is invaded by the FBI, NOW the threat to democracy seems clear for SOME conservatives. One John Bolton =s the threat to 702,000 DC residents and all 340 million Americans ?
America’s capital is invaded by the National Guard, but WHEN the home of ONE former Trump appointee is invaded by the FBI, NOW the threat to democracy seems clear for SOME conservatives. One John Bolton =s the threat to 702,000 DC residents and all 340 million Americans ?
SEPARATE HEADLINES, CONNECTED THREAT
This White House lowers standards for ICE & FBI agents hoping those LESS qualified will be MORE willing to violate our Constitution, homes, & bodies. With lower standards, quotas for arrests, & a White House enemies list, nobody’s safe.
This White House lowers standards for ICE & FBI agents hoping those LESS qualified will be MORE willing to violate our Constitution, homes, & bodies. With lower standards, quotas for arrests, & a White House enemies list, nobody’s safe.
August 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
SEPARATE HEADLINES, CONNECTED THREAT
This White House lowers standards for ICE & FBI agents hoping those LESS qualified will be MORE willing to violate our Constitution, homes, & bodies. With lower standards, quotas for arrests, & a White House enemies list, nobody’s safe.
This White House lowers standards for ICE & FBI agents hoping those LESS qualified will be MORE willing to violate our Constitution, homes, & bodies. With lower standards, quotas for arrests, & a White House enemies list, nobody’s safe.