Lester K Spence
@lkspence.bsky.social
Professor, Author, Son of Blood and Thunder, Father. Newsletter (https://lesters-newsletter-2ff539.beehiiv.com/subscribe), Knocking the Hustle ( http://bit.ly/1SzPlHi)).
What's mandate of Black Studies during this moment. What's our responsibility? Join us as we host the first of a series of public conversations in Baltimore, at the Baltimore Unity Hall. We'll be in dialogue with Paul Coates and Olakekan Kamau-Nataki. Next Wednesday from 6-8pm.
October 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What's mandate of Black Studies during this moment. What's our responsibility? Join us as we host the first of a series of public conversations in Baltimore, at the Baltimore Unity Hall. We'll be in dialogue with Paul Coates and Olakekan Kamau-Nataki. Next Wednesday from 6-8pm.
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science is out. Most important academic article I've written to date.
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science is out. Most important academic article I've written to date.
First day of the 2025 JHU Racial Politics Summer School.
June 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
First day of the 2025 JHU Racial Politics Summer School.
Took a glance at the washington post today and saw rahm emanuel has an op-ed on what the democrats should do. as kind of a lark i googled "rahm emanuel" and "wealth tax" to see what i'd get. www.democracynow.org/2015/11/5/th...
December 17, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Took a glance at the washington post today and saw rahm emanuel has an op-ed on what the democrats should do. as kind of a lark i googled "rahm emanuel" and "wealth tax" to see what i'd get. www.democracynow.org/2015/11/5/th...
On May 3, 2024 the JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences sent the attached statement on protest to Hopkins administrators and faculty.
May 4, 2024 at 2:44 PM
On May 3, 2024 the JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences sent the attached statement on protest to Hopkins administrators and faculty.
And here's John Burgess, the founder of American political science (from Jessica Blatt, author of Race and the Making of American Political Science):
January 30, 2024 at 4:18 PM
And here's John Burgess, the founder of American political science (from Jessica Blatt, author of Race and the Making of American Political Science):
Yes to the broader point. But this isn't a quibble. Articulating this as unintentional ignores the historical record (of America AND POLITICAL SCIENCE). Here's Michael Perman (in Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement of the South, 1888-1908) over twenty years ago:
January 30, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Yes to the broader point. But this isn't a quibble. Articulating this as unintentional ignores the historical record (of America AND POLITICAL SCIENCE). Here's Michael Perman (in Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement of the South, 1888-1908) over twenty years ago: