Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Intersectional organizing isn't optional—it's essential." Thank you, Kenya Hutton, for endorsing The Black Papers. Pre-orders open October 9. www.routledge.com/The-Black-Pa... #WeWroteItDown #BlackPapers 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For 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... 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A 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... 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They 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... 011
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026For 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 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Take 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Nostalgia 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Truth 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026They 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Testosterone 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Rapid-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... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/27bH... 📝 substack.com/@drdavidjjoh... #TeachTheBabies #ThisOrThat 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 05/07/2026America 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 000
Reposted by Dr. David JohnsSiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026ICYMI: @drdavidjohns.bsky.social joined @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected. 011
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Happy Fourth of July or whatever #TeachTheBabies 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The 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 010
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 111
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 011
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/06/202657% 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. 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Delegate 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... 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 26/06/2026They 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It’s seeing my nephew flanking forever POTUS for meeeee. cc: @joshuadubois07.bsky.social 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Authoritarianism'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 021
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Find 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 #TeachTheBabiespodcasts.apple.comIn Our Comfort, We Cannot Get Free with Tiffany LoftinPodcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · June 16 · 28m 000
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. 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Juneteenth 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. 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Collin 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... 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Sometimes it’s better to adjust than address. #TeachTheBabies 000
Reposted by Dr. David JohnsSiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Talk about a tense conversation... #UrbanViewMornings economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...yahoo.comAl Green And Markwayne Mullin Have Heated Exchange Over RacismA 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. 062
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 011
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The 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 #VotingRightsopen.substack.comThe Arena Is Not a MetaphorUntrending News, News You Can Use 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The 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 011
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 31/05/20265 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Felon 47 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...nytimes.com5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Trump 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Greenwood 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 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 23/05/2026New 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... 000
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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Seven %. 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The 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... 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Beyoncé 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The 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 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This 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 #LetsALLGetFreepodcasts.apple.comBlack. Single. Mother. with Jamilah LemieuxPodcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · May 12 · 25m 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Our 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 #LetsALLGetFreepodcasts.apple.comBlack. Single. Mother. with Jamilah LemieuxPodcast Episode · Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns · May 12 · 25m 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Jamilah 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 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Education 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 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 09/05/2026YOU 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 ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿 011
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 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... 010
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The 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-... 01511
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 26/04/2026A 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... 000
Dr. David Johns @drdavidjohns.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The 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... 000
