bradley
@oathbound.bsky.social
DEI professor, historian of the Black Atlantic, 90's popular culture enthusiast
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Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
I went undercover at a fancy hotel bar last night and I regret to inform you that the only class warfare happening in the US right now is between multimillionaires and billionaires 🙃🙃
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I went undercover at a fancy hotel bar last night and I regret to inform you that the only class warfare happening in the US right now is between multimillionaires and billionaires 🙃🙃
I love how by the time we get to the 20th century (aka not my specialty) in the survey course I’m teaching I just default to reading them poetry every class
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I love how by the time we get to the 20th century (aka not my specialty) in the survey course I’m teaching I just default to reading them poetry every class
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Vigilance committees were antislavery organizations that began forming in northeastern cities in the 1830s, often supported by Black churches, writes Jesse Olsavsky in our latest issue. Their work took on new urgency after the revamped Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Vigilance committees were antislavery organizations that began forming in northeastern cities in the 1830s, often supported by Black churches, writes Jesse Olsavsky in our latest issue. Their work took on new urgency after the revamped Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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Tomorrow, Nov. 12 is the virtual book launch for ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS (Duke University Press, 2025). Please join me at 6pm Central (7pm ET)!
The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...
The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tomorrow, Nov. 12 is the virtual book launch for ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS (Duke University Press, 2025). Please join me at 6pm Central (7pm ET)!
The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...
The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...
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A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
Study: Rents for low-wage Atlantans rose 9 times faster than for high earners
Rents for suburban workforce housing in the metro Atlanta region increased by almost 20%, while rents for luxury units increased by 2%, a study said.
www.ajc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
Athletic Spice was really carrying the whole team on her back vocally speaking
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Athletic Spice was really carrying the whole team on her back vocally speaking
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year x of my wondering why conference hosts think I want to download an app for their conference
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
year x of my wondering why conference hosts think I want to download an app for their conference
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Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors. Our long-term survival prospects would be greatly enhanced by connections to a few cool institutions and individuals. binj.news/2025/11/06/e... #journalism #appeal #Boston #Massachusetts
Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors
Our long-term survival prospects would be greatly enhanced by connections to a few cool institutions and individuals
binj.news
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors. Our long-term survival prospects would be greatly enhanced by connections to a few cool institutions and individuals. binj.news/2025/11/06/e... #journalism #appeal #Boston #Massachusetts
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Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.”
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
Meet the historian ensuring ‘The Gilded Age’ drama rings true | Emory University | Atlanta GA
Emory professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar specializes in sharing the often-overlooked historical experiences of Black women in America. That includes using her talents to bring the characters in the HBO ...
news.emory.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.”
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
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CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...
slaverynorth.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
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Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and ...
tinhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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Thousands of volunteers are racing to preserve America’s history — photographing museum exhibits they fear the Trump administration could erase.
A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history
Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'
www.latimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thousands of volunteers are racing to preserve America’s history — photographing museum exhibits they fear the Trump administration could erase.
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The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
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November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
buff.ly/rccy0qL
buff.ly/rccy0qL
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I was at Harvard in the history department at this exact time and had friends who were TFing literally in that classroom and.... i'll just say that certainly was not any of our experience
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I was at Harvard in the history department at this exact time and had friends who were TFing literally in that classroom and.... i'll just say that certainly was not any of our experience
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Take time to read this interview in full. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about lessons from the Civil Rights Movement for this current moment.
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy
Federal agents have long harassed immigrants and Black and brown people in cities, but something dangerous is changing behind the scenes.
hammerandhope.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Take time to read this interview in full. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about lessons from the Civil Rights Movement for this current moment.
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
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"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
I just tried to use this yesterday so many thanks to that stranger 😭
Just got my annual reminder from a stranger’s email that my Generic Syllabus Maker needs to be updated to include the next calendar year. Done! Now I just have to figure out why the Rice-specific one isn’t working …
October 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I just tried to use this yesterday so many thanks to that stranger 😭
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Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire
bcrw.barnard.edu
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
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LaShawn Harris provides a crystal clear profile of the heinous police murder of Eleanor Bumpurs,the activism her death inspired, and ultimately the limits of “police reforms.” I can’t wait to dig into the book! theconversation.com/more-than-40...
More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername
The 1984 murder of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
LaShawn Harris provides a crystal clear profile of the heinous police murder of Eleanor Bumpurs,the activism her death inspired, and ultimately the limits of “police reforms.” I can’t wait to dig into the book! theconversation.com/more-than-40...
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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The strike authorization vote has begun!
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
Baristas are rallying at Starbucks stores across the country this weekend. Here's why
As 70 rallies kick off across the country, unionized baristas say they’re fighting for fair pay and hours—just as fall coffee orders surge.
www.fastcompany.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The strike authorization vote has begun!
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.
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Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social
Battling book bans in Beantown and beyond - The Tufts Daily
I consider myself to be generally aware of the state of book banning in the United States. I read about the fights going on in school districts and libraries throughout Florida, Tennessee and Texas. I...
www.tuftsdaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thanks to The Tufts Daily for covering #MassFreedomToRead and An Act Regarding Free Expression! www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025... @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @danaalisonlevy.bsky.social