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Chad Williams

@chadwilliams.bsky.social
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Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com

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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Bruins stand up! Congratulations to the UCLA Women’s Basketball Team!
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 05/04/2026
The moment UCLA became women's basketball national champions 🏆🔥
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
One more quarter for that chip! Let’s go Bruins!
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Go Michigan
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
That's his achilles....damn
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Trump and Netanyahu are determined to completely break the world.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Just as Iraq had no WMD, Iran has no nuclear weapons. America has entered another unnecessary war in the Middle East
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Appreciated the opportunity to share a few thoughts for this article.
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How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Steph. Curry.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
So Gabbard and Ratcliffe purjured themselves yesterday, right?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
These fools are cooked.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2025
my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
But, you know... DEI.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/03/2025
Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
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Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is an abject failure on the part of Columbia’s leadership to defend academic freedom and institutional integrity. It should lead to resignations.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are in a very dangerous place. With more shameful moments to come.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/03/2025
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/02/2025
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

Davarian Baldwin
Johanna Fernandez
Sarah Haley
Robin D.G. Kelley
Barbara Ransby
Robyn Spencer-Antoine

Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is it. 🎯
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 02/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar's smash hit "Not Like Us" has already won multiple Grammys.
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Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' has already won multiple Grammys
Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' wins TK Grammys
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"There's people that fit the culture and there's people that come in and add to the culture. And those are two distinct things. And I believe the people that we're coming in are adding to the culture." 👀 Luka revenge game is going to be a movie. 🍿
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AD pivotal to Mavs' 'vision,' 'culture,' GM says
Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, sitting alongside coach Jason Kidd on Sunday, emphasized the importance of "culture" in explaining his stunning decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los...
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The Air Force confirmed it has dropped a training video with the famed Tuskegee Airmen following Trump’s DEI crackdown
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Air Force drop videos with Tuskegee Airmen after Trump’s DEI crackdown
The Tuskegee Airmen were the country’s first all-Black military airmen who fought during World War II.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A modern-day "red scare." Not hyperbole to say that we are entering a period that will potentially be worse and have more lasting consequences than 1950s McCarthyism.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you are a lawyer, you advocate to save democracy. If you are an elected rep you use legislative power to protect your country. If you are a journalist you write truth in the face of threats to democracy. If you are a faith leader, you do this. Everyone has a role. Stand upright in yours.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just so we're clear, with his executive order Trump has reversed 60 years of federal affirmative action and civil rights policy dating back to LBJ and 1965 and weaponized the government to attack any major private institution that actively values equity and inclusion.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Must read🧵👇🏾
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20/01/2025
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s radical labor politics and the times to come for my MLK Day piece for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/as-...
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As Billionaires Consolidate Power, We Need to Recommit to MLK’s Radical Vision
MLK was assassinated on the cusp of a strike wave in a time of counterrevolution. We need his “revolution in values.”…
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Grifters... assemble!
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/01/2025
As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Today and every day, I pledge to never silence my voice in the fight for what is right, and I will continue to march in the path he forged toward justice.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This year MLK Day coincides with Inauguration Day. In this 2018 forum, Brandon M. Terry—with @keeanga.bsky.social, @elizabethkai.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, and others—discusses the substance of King’s commitments, and why his vision for a revolution in U.S. society remains unfinished.
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MLK Now - Boston Review
Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action
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‘This is a call to action’: Tulsa race massacre survivors express frustration with DOJ report
"At 110 years old, we are weary, but we will not rest until justice for Greenwood is secured.”
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Long overdue.
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Biden posthumously pardons Black nationalist Marcus Garvey
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Shared some thoughts on Biden's legacy on this @gbhnews.bsky.social roundtable.
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How will Black Americans remember President Biden?
YouTube video by GBH News
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