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Ashley D. Farmer

@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social
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Historian, Professor, Writer, Author. 👑📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25) ashleydfarmer.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ashley Farmer's incredible book Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is the winner of the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award! @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Get your tickets! American Grammar by Jarvis Givens @harpercollins.bsky.social @harperbooks.bsky.social Queen Mother by Ashley Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis McInnis @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks for including Queen Mother on this fantastic list !
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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you to @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for allowing me to recommend 5 amazing books on women in the early civil rights movement. Includes works by @barbararansby.bsky.social, @patriciabell.bsky.social, @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social, John Egerton, & @dowdhall.bsky.social 🥰 lithub.com/five-essenti...
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Five Essential Books on Women in the Early Civil Rights Movement
While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it remain a mystery to many. And while Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, …
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October 19 - Home to Harlem: Celebrating Black Bibliography at the Schomburg Center - www.eventbrite.com/e/home-to-ha...
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Home to Harlem: Celebrating Black Bibliography at the Schomburg Center
Join us as we reflect on the history and future of Black bibliography through panel discussions, exhibition tour, an open house, and more.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MS NOW reporter and WABJ member Akayla Gardner was denied entry into the White House grounds and asked to hand over her badge.
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meet our 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award Finalist Ashley Farmer at our award event on October 8th and hear more about her book, Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Register at our website. @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Congratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 15/09/2026
Pregnant women are being detailed at a record rate—but how many lose their pregnancies isn’t being tracked.
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ICE Has 'Lost Count' Of Miscarriages Amid Pregnant Detainees, Report Claims
Pregnant women are being detailed at a record rate—but how many lose their pregnancies isn’t being tracked.
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Announcing the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award Finalists! Afterlives of the Plantation Jarvis C. McInnis @columbiaup.bsky.social American Grammar Jarvis R. Givens @harperbooks.bsky.social Queen Mother Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reserve a free ticket for their October 8 ceremony in Boston, MA: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-maah-... It includes a reception and a free book for the first 100 guests. See you there!
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2026 MAAH Stone Book Award
Enjoy food, drink, an exciting program, & free signed books to the first 100 people. $50k to the winning author & $10k to two finalists.
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is a finalist for the @MAAHStoneBook. I am thrilled that Queen Mother Audley Moore’s story is being celebrated. 👑 Congratulations to the other two finalists as well!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today we've been packing Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits. Ready for USPS. It is time to inform & engage young people to get out the vote! Check out map of where they're going & reasons teachers are requesting them ➡️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/voting-... Donate so we can send many more toolkits.
Stack of forest green boxes with Voting Rights Teaching Toolkit stickers.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today is the 69th anniversary of the integration of the Little Rock Nine. We all know the story. We've all seen the pictures of Elizabeth Eckford being heckled to death by an all white crowd. But I dont think we fully grasp just how significant it was, and it's conjuction to another event 🧵
Elizabeth Eckford, age 15, attempting to walk into her new school at Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas, while the crowd behind accosts her, particularly 15 year old Hazel Massery who is the other focus in this picture
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on British Columbia’s largest reservoir By Aug. 5, the island was no longer showing up in satellite data
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An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
The Imagination Library, founded in 1995 by Dolly Parton, has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But the organization is not immune to the state-level budget cuts threatening public libraries and other educational nonprofits across the U.S. trib.al/9X75g83
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's 9to5 film was based on a grassroots organizing labor movement led by women www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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'A lost history': the US women who fought for better working conditions
PBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women’s organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today’s social justice movements
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm always glad when @thrasherxy.bsky.social weighs in. lithub.com/steven-thras...
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Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday
Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories…
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 21/08/2026
Federal prosecutors accused TikTok of collecting and keeping data from children without notifying parents or receiving consent.
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TikTok Agrees To Pay $400 Million To Settle Alleged Violation Of Children’s Privacy Law
Federal prosecutors accused TikTok of collecting and keeping data from children without notifying parents or receiving consent.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jill Damatac on the racism endemic to academic institutions and the horrific death of Dr. Arday www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...
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I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism
“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/08/2026
Todd Blanche, the newly confirmed attorney general, refused to pledge that he would always act independently of the White House during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
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Blanche Refuses to Say He’ll Always Be Independent of Trump as Attorney General
The new head of the Justice Department said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the president had never asked him to prosecute specific people — and never would.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
11/14 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
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Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“The People’s Historian shook free an understanding of Zinn I’d never felt, and made me know that we are so, so prepared to live and fight in 2026.” — author Kiese Laymon Check out these upcoming book tour dates to see if Zirin is coming to a city near you: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
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The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
Book — Non-fiction. By Dave Zirin. 2026. 400 pages. A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the t...
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Queen Mother Audley Moore, the mother of Black Nationalism and the Godmother of the reparations movement was born 128 years ago today. June 27, 1898 She was also one of the founders of the Republic of New Afrika Movement
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Queen Mother. Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by Ashley D Farmer
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...
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Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs | HISTORY
When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black ve...
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList! Mark your calendar to join us in person or virtually for the awards ceremony on October 8th! Registration opens September 8th at maahstonebookaward.org. @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social @danaawilliams.bsky.social
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thank you !
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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And more congratulations are in order for @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social, coeditor extraordinaire of @uncpress.bsky.social's Black Women's History series, whose biography of Queen Mother Audley Moore (Pantheon Books) is on the MAAH Stone Book Award shortlist.
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Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore — MAAH Stone Book Award
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Photo of the Silent Parade held on this day in 1917. The Negro Silent Protest Parade, also called the Silent Parade, was a political protest in New York City, held with the intention to draw national attention to racial violence (lynching in particular): beinecke.library.yale.edu/blog/1917-na...
A large group of Black girls dressed in white march in a parade, holding hands. Some hold signs, including one reading "We Have Sowed the Seeds." Adults walk alongside, and onlookers watch from the sidewalk.
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
GIVEAWAY! On what would’ve been Queen Mother Audley Moore’s 128th birthday, I’m giving away an annotated signed copy of my biography of her, Queen Mother. I’ve included one-of-a-kind archival finds and notes about what they reveal! Head over to the photo app to enter. Closes July 31.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
July is Int'l Zine Month, a great time to pick up this zine by IC cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org! Black Study is about the enduring legacy of David Walker’s An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), a pamphlet calling for Black resistance & liberation.
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Black Study
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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
ICYMI: The Black Women’s History series is accepting applications for its annual incubator. The incubator provides support for developing projects that center the voices and experiences of Black women using a historical methodology. #CFP #skystorians
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Education for the Revolution: The Legacy of the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School by Robert P. Robinson. Pre-order if interested in learning about the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School, the Panthers’ revolutionary educational ethos, and their effect on schooling today.
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Read The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History by Brian Jones for insights on how students practiced Black Power at Southern campuses and for a new take on an old HBCU. @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Read Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit by Say Burgin to find out how white activists supported Black Power through racially parallel organizing in Northern cities. @sayburgin.bsky.social
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Read Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest by Marc Arsell Robinson for more on how Black students embraced Black Power in the Pacific Northwest by advocating for Black Studies programs, and recruiting retention of Black faculty, staff, students across the state.
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Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Read Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World by Quito Swan for insight into how Black Power, Pan-Africanism, and African/Caribbean nationalism shaped and was shaped by organizers and artists in the South Pacific. @qswan.bsky.social
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