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Ada Ferrer

@aditaferrer.bsky.social
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Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.
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Fact-checking U.S. military boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific as death toll passes 200
The U.S. military on May 30 struck another boat it said was engaged in "narco-trafficking operations" in the eastern Pac
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sharing a bookcase with Rich Benjamin. Love his book!
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
An important move. Popes have previously apologized for the Church's role in the slave trade (the Jesuits were the single largest holder of enslaved people in the Americas). Leo apologizes for the legitimization of slavery, the theological underpinnings of slaving. www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-l...
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery
History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” (Magnificent Humanity), which...
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The New York Times en Español @nytimeses.nytimes.com · 22/05/2026
En su libro más reciente, la historiadora Ada Ferrer escarba entre montañas de diarios, cartas y documentos dejados por sus padres con el mismo rigor que aplica a los archivos nacionales de Cuba.
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Memoria de una familia dividida entre Cuba y EE. UU.
Unas conmovedoras memorias de la historiadora Ada Ferrer, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, relatan la vida de su familia tras una ruptura traumática.
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Mi padre solía escribirle al gobierno cubano. Ahora me toca a mí www.nytimes.com/es/2026/05/0...
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Mi padre solía escribirle al gobierno cubano. Ahora me toca a mí
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My Father Wrote Letters to the Cuban Government. Here Is Mine. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
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Opinion | My Father Wrote Letters to the Cuban Government. Here Is Mine.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
If you're a certain kind of power-seeker, it's really convenient that a lot of people know so little about history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
x.com/adita_ferrer...
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Ada Ferrer on X: "So happy to see #KeeperofMyKin on the NYT list of new books to read in May! https://t.co/KQWo9zdv49 @ScribnerBooks https://t.co/T9Bx4UKrJS" / X
So happy to see #KeeperofMyKin on the NYT list of new books to read in May! https://t.co/KQWo9zdv49 @ScribnerBooks https://t.co/T9Bx4UKrJS
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It’s Been Centuries Since Haiti’s Revolution. It’s Still Paying for It. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...
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Opinion | It’s Been Centuries Since Haiti’s Revolution. It’s Still Paying for It.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 27/04/2026
Just a remarkable public space, the New York Public Library main reading room #hatm
The main reading room of the New York Public Library
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🔥🔥🇭🇹🇭🇹
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The world will soon be divided into three kinds of people: those who know math and those who don't.
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’m One of Cuba’s Political Prisoners. When Will I Go Free? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...
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Opinion | I’m One of Cuba’s Political Prisoners. When Will I Go Free?
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#Austin folks! Join us 5/20 at @bookpeople.com
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It’s probably nothing. 🤡 @dkthomp.bsky.social
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have another long week in front of me. But for those asking how to stay informed about Trump's latest attack on voting and the legal cases that will follow, my advice is to subscribe to Democracy Docket. I started it for times just like this. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I love a headline that gets right to the point (You can read @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social’s full op-ed here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...)
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter www.amazon.com/vdp/070fb669...
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Watch Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter on Amazon Live
Shop with expert advice from Simon & Schuster in their latest video Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter.
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Geraldo Cadava @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It was a real privilege to do a deep dive into the history of Indigenous slavery, through a new digital archive called @natboundunbound.bsky.social. It felt like a really important topic to me, and a really important project. Thank you for reading and sharing!
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara
Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
THE PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN ATE TYLER AUSTIN HARPER UP LOL “Harper follows in the grand tradition of Senator Jesse Helms in mocking areas of research he expects will be unpopular with the general public.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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Letter | No, Mellon Is Not Part of Some Woke Conspiracy
Tyler Austin Harper mischaracterizes good grantmaking, writes Michael S. Roth.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2026
The universe genuinely is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us! So today is a good day to preorder my new book The Edge of Space-Time, which urges readers to see the cosmos through new eyes and in the process learn skills we use to resist authoritarianism. #BookSky
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/02/2026
This is an awesome rule 👏🏽
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
substack.com/@publicimpac...
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Jim Bourg (@publicimpactnews)
Excellent and impressive work, Pablo, as usual!
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I did the lawyers. I ain't got time for all these members of congress. <ducking>
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Ken Hughes @fatalpolitics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show wapo.st/49Zqv1L
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Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Empty bolt holes and shadows are all that remains on the brick walls where explanatory panels were displayed . . . One woman cried silently at their absence. . . . A hand-lettered sign said 'Slavery was real.'" . . . It's all connected. bit.ly/4q21GI9
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Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of slavery exhibit from public park
Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Par...
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Sometimes you finally read a book you’ve been meaning to read for years, and it is just as good as you anticipated. “The Allure of the Archives” is such a gem! Beautiful read for those of us who love the archives.
"A litie gem of a book.... Sharp, brilliant, perfect, and created to last"
-Inside Higher Ed
The Allure of the Archives
Arlette Farge
Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My new piece is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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It's King Day!
Don't Allow Them to Memory Hole What It Means
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... MY NEW BOOK’S FIRST REVIEW. And it has a star. #SoGrateful
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KEEPER OF MY KIN | Kirkus Reviews
A historian explores the toll of immigration on her Cuban American family.
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Jason Lamb @jasonlamb.org · 07/01/2026
If you'd like some sort of historical context on why this Venezuela / Greenland stuff isn't at all surprising, 'Cuba: An American History' by @aditaferrer.bsky.social is an excellent read. It details a lot regarding the Monroe Doctrine, the Platt Amendment, etc. amzn.to/4sspojm
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History: Ferrer, Dr. Ada: 9781501154553: Books - Amazon.ca
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
So happy and honored to see forthcoming book, Keeper of My Kin, on this list and among such company!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.)

Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
There is no law that requires US citizens to carry ID. To ask someone on the street to prove US citizenship is to demand to see a passport or birth certificate, something many people don’t have or don’t carry. The masked men targeting people of color know that.
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The 85-Year-Old Activist Trying to Block the Trump Presidential Library Plan www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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The 85-Year-Old Activist Trying to Block the Trump Presidential Library Plan
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My big news: coming May 19 from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social the book I always knew I would have to write. More info and pre-order links here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Keeper...
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Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
#LatinoHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth. He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
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He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.
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Gregory Dickens, PBS World Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My home Internet went kersplat, and I raced to the library for its wifi and ample table outlets for my work laptop. I worked for five hours straight. LIBRARIES. They have been there for me all my life.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The New Yorker…
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Navajo Code Talkers erased from Pentagon records. Tribal flags stripped from public buildings. Reports on missing Indigenous women deleted. Under Project 2025, the U.S. is reclassifying Native sovereignty as “DEI”—a calculated strategy to enable cultural erasure. Read more:
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Erasing History: Project 2025's Vision for Tribal Nations
The implementation of Project 2025 isn’t just reshaping policy—it’s erasing history. From the Pentagon’s removal of Navajo Code Talkers to the deletion of federal reports on missing Indigenous women, ...
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