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Dr. David Johns

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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For generations, this country demanded our papers. This fall, we publish our own. The Black Papers, from Routledge, 26 chapters from 100+ contributors. It opens with democracy, on purpose. Preorders open Oct 9. I wrote about it: drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/we-wrote-i...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A federal official warns theUSPS is rushing an untested mail ballot system, one that can delay ballots by the thousands. A judge called it likely illegal. Mail voting starts this week anyway. Confirm your registration: www.vote.org With Joy Reid and Ari Berman: www.youtube.com/live/EPB7MgD...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They moved on a Monday, six to three, when attention was thin. One-fifth of Black Americans born in 1939 & 1940 were never issued a birth certificate. You can’t produce paper you were never given. Check your registration today. Five things to do this week: drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-are-m...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For the whites & the gays: no wig, no red lipstick, no breastplate this Halloween unless your politics align with Dolly’s. She said of course Black lives matter in 2020 and took “Dixie” off the Stampede in 2018 because you fix it once you know. You’ve been warned, beloved. www.imaginationlibrary.com
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Take away the affirming space and what do we lose? Dr. Terrell Winder didn't hedge. Lives. People lost to their circumstances. We have enough history to know that closing space and pulling resources helps NO ONE. open.spotify.com/episode/4MSM...  #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nostalgia is a trap. The old ways didn’t break—they never worked. Phil Agnew on why your granddaddy wasn’t happy, and why we build new ways of being instead of trying to go back. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Substack: drdavidjjohns.substack.com #TeachTheBabies #PhilAgnew
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Truth Social is selling Wall Street early access to Trump's posts—up to $100,000/mth to read them first. Because his posts move markets. A presidential tollbooth. And it's probably legal, by design. Follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
They told on themselves. 2020: Jenna Ellis told Georgia prosecutors, “the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances.” 2026: Speaker Mike Johnson said losing the House would be “the end of the Trump presidency in real effect.” The truth always comes to the light (Luke 8:17). vote.org
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Testosterone is testosterone. Hegseth rolled out hormone therapy for troops with low T—“The High-T Department of War.” Same molecule this administration bans for trans troops and discharges them for taking. Same medicine. Opposite verdict. drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-belie... #WorkWoke
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Rapid-fire w/ @biancajontae.bsky.social: Teachers College or Harvard? The research or the writing? Freedom dreaming or policy change? Her picks stay in the episode. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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📝 substack.com/@drdavidjjoh... #TeachTheBabies #ThisOrThat
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
America is 250. The truth is older—built on stolen land, by stolen people, and still unpaid for. Fannie Lou Hamer asked in 1964: is this America? We're still answering. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
ICYMI: @drdavidjohns.bsky.social joined @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected.
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Fourth of July or whatever #TeachTheBabies
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The instinct in movement work is to sequence. That sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting for over 36 years. -Dreisen Heath on #TeachTheBabies #Podcast—& why this Freedom Summer, we put the whole menu on the table. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1Kxy... #HR40 #LetsALLGetFree
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"We want the whole menu." This Freedom Summer, NBJC + Dreisen Heath of the Why We Can't Wait Reparations Network produced Equity Week in DC. H.R.40 has waited since 1989—we don't have forty more years. New ep of Teach the Babies is live. Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thanks for making space
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
#POV you join @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected. #LetsALLGetFree #Politics #Policy
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The most targeted officials in this country are invisible in the data meant to protect them. That is not a footnote—it's a policy failure. #LetsALLGetFree
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
57% spike in anti-LGBTQ incidents targeting elected officials in a single year. 181 documented incidents. No federal system to track what happens at the intersection of Blackness and LGBTQ+ identity.
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Delegate Gabriel Acevero was physically confronted at a polling site on the cusp of Juneteenth by a man with documented anti-LGBTQ animus. His constituents voted anyway. And as I write, he is leading. That is resistance. New Stack is live. 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-tried...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
They were college students heading into Mississippi in 1964. They knew the danger. They went anyway. @mspackyetti.bsky.social on who actually carried the cost of Freedom Summer. Full #TeachtheBabies pod out now 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer2026 #BlackHistory
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s seeing my nephew flanking forever POTUS for meeeee. cc: @joshuadubois07.bsky.social
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Authoritarianism's quietest weapon is isolation. Tiffany Loftin says students are dangerously disconnected. The answer is intentional, physical, in-person gathering. Listen to the full #TeachTheBabied pod episode now! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu... #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer #OrganizeNow
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Find your organizing home. Not the org—the people. Not tomorrow. Now. 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu... 📖 Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
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In Our Comfort, We Cannot Get Free with Tiffany Loftin
Podcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · June 16 · 28m
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"One of the tactics of authoritarianism and fascism is making us feel like we are by ourselves. It is loneliness. It is solitude. It is separation from our community and our people." —Tiffany Dena Loftin. This is the episode for Juneteenth week.
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Juneteenth is not a holiday. It is a reckoning. The promise of freedom was announced two and a half years after it was already law. We have been closing the gap ever since. New #TeachtheBabies #Podcast episode with Tiffany Dena Loftin is live.
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Collin County is ~11% Black. Frisco is ~9% Not one Black juror seated in Karmelo Anthony's trial. Prosecutors struck all 3 Black women. Reason: they were teachers. The judge allowed it. Batson in action. The system working exactly as designed. drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/two-boys-a...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Sometimes it’s better to adjust than address. #TeachTheBabies
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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Talk about a tense conversation... #UrbanViewMornings economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...
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Al Green And Markwayne Mullin Have Heated Exchange Over Racism
A House hearing erupted into a heated exchange between Congressman Al Green and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin when the DHS secretary accused the congressman of calling him a racist.
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"While the enslaved were enslaved, the entire society was enslaved." Dr. Marcus A. Hunter reframes who slavery harmed—and it's everyone forced to participate. The 1808 argument. Watch the clip. What if slavery is a diagnosis? open.spotify.com/episode/3OrA... #TeachTheBabies #Reparations #EquityWeek
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Discomfort is by design — always has been. Many are in the arena. The question is who joins them. #VotingRights #AllBlackLivesMatter open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights
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The Arena Is Not a Metaphor
Untrending News, News You Can Use
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The CBC sent a letter to 300+ corporations asking whether their 2021 voting rights commitments still hold. After Louisiana v. Callais, silence isn't neutral — it's complicity. drdavidjjohns.substack.com #LetsALLGetFree
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Felon 47 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...
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5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Trump
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Greenwood was the deadliest race massacre in American history. Nobody told him — and he grew up there. / Now Damario Solomon-Simmons is the attorney fighting for the last living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... / #TeachTheBabies #RedeemANation #Greenwood
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
New opportunities roundup is live—leadership roles, fellowships, & student positions across education, civil rights, and global policy. If it's not for you, it might be for someone you’re rooting for. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by." Not a disavowal. A military command. He said it on national television & pardoned 1,500+ January 6th participants on day one. These are his private sworn militia. 🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #TeachTheBabies #Democracy #Accountability
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Seven %. Black voter registration in Mississippi before the VRA. Two years after the law passed: sixty. VRA was the guardrail. They spent sixty years tearing it down. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📖 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/the-klan-n... #TeachTheBabies #VotingRights #Democracy
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is gone. Not weakened. Gone.   New episode of Teach the Babies: The Klan Never Left. They Just Changed Their Clothes.   18 minutes. Solo episode. Listen and share. open.spotify.com/episode/3ru7...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Beyoncé or Solange? Toni Morrison or Angela Davis? Hot girl summer or healing girl autumn? @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social Not one pause. Watch the clip — no spoilers. Full conversation on Teach the Babies. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The culture decides which Black mothers get dignity & which get destroyed — and the criteria have nothing to do with parenting or character. Jamilah Lemieux names what it's actually about. #TeachtheBabies. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This book opened a real conversation between my sister and me about her experience as a Black single mother. That's what the best books do. Go listen. Read the Stack. Get the book. 📖 Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
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Black. Single. Mother. with Jamilah Lemieux
Podcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · May 12 · 25m
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our conversation on Teach the Babies goes deep—the Moynihan Report, who gets protected and who gets punished & what every-other-weekend costs, and what the culture owes Black women. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
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Black. Single. Mother. with Jamilah Lemieux
Podcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · May 12 · 25m
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Jamilah Lemieux wrote the book Toni Morrison told us to write. Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging is out now. Go listen. Go get it. 🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Education policy breaks down when proximity breaks down. I joined Code for America CEO Amanda Renteria on The Government Fix to talk about what it actually takes to build systems that serve Black children left out of every room where their futures get decided. Episode: hubs.ly/Q04ftcWJ0
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
YOU no longer have to pontificate, imagine, or wax poetic about what you would have done if you were asked to join the children’s crusade by Dr. King, organize alongside Ella Baker, or otherwise engage in the Civil Rights struggles. What will YOU do? Yes, YOU. allroadsleadtothesouth.com ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Supreme Court modernized Jim Crow. This was coordinated. The moment was prepared for. They are betting we will get overwhelmed and pull back. That is part of the strategy. We ride this to 2026. Read. Share. Act. substack.com/@drdavidjjoh...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The SPLC bankrupted the Klan. Shut down White Aryan Resistance. Seized the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho. Fellon 47 just indicted them. Effectiveness is the crime. And we are not going to pretend otherwise. Full breakdown 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-came-...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A man who kills his wife doesn't get to be called her husband anymore. He is her murderer. - @karenattiah.bsky.social I wrote about femicide, and what it costs Black women, and what eight children in Shreveport deserve from all of us right now. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Oval Office occupant posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus. The head of the global Catholic Church—whose institution's imagery was being co-opted—looked at it & said: Not on my watch. The Pope of Rome is out here being braver than Congress. Stack: open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Brothers. Before posting another pic of you and Justin read this. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt... thank you, @karenattiah
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If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore
Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.
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