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"I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton. Become a member: hammerandhope.org/membership Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: linktr.ee/hammerandhope

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 18/09/2026

Oakland! Join Angela Davis, Sarah Haley, @keeanga.bsky.social, and Ula Y. Taylor for a conversation about the history and future of Black feminism. Monday, September 28 at the Kaiser Center for the Arts, w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social Get tickets: www.haymarketbooks.org/events/825-h...

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're throwing parties to celebrate the next issue of Hammer & Hope, which drops soon! Shout out to our co-sponsors @haymarketbooks.org and @debtcollective.bsky.social. Become a member today to get the RSVP link. See you soon! hammerandhope.org/membership

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Republicans have gathered for an unusual two-day midterm convention in Dallas, but Trump may find that his ability to mobilize his base is waning. In Issue No. 11, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social examines what lessons right-wing political spectacles offer the left. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my 2 cents on material conditions and right wing politics for @hammerandhope.bsky.social "The portrayal of economic anxiety as a standalone rather than complementary explanation to the machinations of plutocratic bigots also flies in the face of what we know..." hammerandhope.org/article/econ...

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The False Narrative of Economic Anxiety

People are insecure, but that is not the only reason they voted for Donald Trump in 2024.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s been a lot of conversation about the pay-to-play model infiltrating youth sports lately. In Issue No.11, @seanjacobs.bsky.social used U.S. soccer as a case study for understanding what this model means for working-class Black and brown kids. hammerandhope.org/article/worl...

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy birthday, Alice Coltrane! The legendary musician became an ancestor in 2007, at the age of 69, but her musical and spiritual practices remain indelible, illuminating a path toward more liberatory Black futures. hammerandhope.org/article/alic...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

cosigning these. local news as such is important but the political outlets fill out a different but also important lane - I'd argue in general but obviously especially for those of us on the left. adding: @hammerandhope.bsky.social @therealnews.com, @readlux.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/blba...

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The Revival Lab @revivallab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

With some shout outs to excellent pieces recommended by our staff, including from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @airwars.bsky.social @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and a whole issue from @hammerandhope.bsky.social! www.therevivallab.org/precedented-...

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Precedented Discoveries & Crisis in Context

Reflections from the History of Science Society Meeting

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For Issue No. 11, Roshan Abraham wrote an essay about seeking out “Okay Now” in Jordan’s archives. He considers the poet's work in urban planning and how that expertise, coupled with a visit to Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative, inspired a radical vision. hammerandhope.org/article/june...

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What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?

For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In Issue No. 5, @keeanga.bsky.social spoke to @danieldenvir.bsky.social of @thedigradio.bsky.social Kamala Harris’s loss to Trump. Their conclusions about the Dems’ ineffectual leadership and the potential for a left-wing alternative anticipated this election cycle. hammerandhope.org/article/elec...

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hammer & Hope is excited to partner with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics and Culture. Join us on Oct. 11 in Brooklyn for a day of performance, learning, and discussion featuring Hasan Piker, Arielle Angel, Fadi Quran, Molly Crabapple, M. Gessen, among others.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For Issue No. 11, Melvin Earl Villaver Jr. wrote an essay detailing his experience being fired by the public university after posting about Charlie Kirk on his private social media accounts. hammerandhope.org/article/clem...

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed's victory shows that Democratic primary voters want a left-wing candidate who speaks out against the genocide in Gaza. In Issue No. 5, @hadasthier.bsky.social talked to Uncommitted organizers about advancing the fight against U.S. aid to Israel. hammerandhope.org/article/unco...

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Can the Uncommitted Movement Realign the Democratic Party?

Ending the genocide in Gaza and challenging the U.S. war machine require trying new tactics and refusing to cede political terrain.

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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's so much great stuff in the latest issue of Hammer and Hope. I particularly appreciated this piece from @hadasthier.bsky.social about resistance to ICE!

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Callie Petch @calliepetch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is one of the best pieces of music and culture criticism/journalism I've read in a long time.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In line w what I wrote for @hammerandhope.bsky.social about centrist reactions to the Mamdani admin. hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...

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The Democrats Fear a Left-Winger Who Governs Well | Hammer & Hope

Astra Taylor — Nine New Yorkers discuss the first six months of the Mamdani administration.

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Jenn Flores @xojennflores.latinsky.app · 30/07/2026

i am so obsessed with Hammer & Hope that i became a paying member. beautiful content and insightful, powerful storytelling. please support their work!

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In Issue No. 11, @hadasthier.bsky.social asked more than two dozen organizers in cities around the country this question: What lessons can be learned from how the resistance in Minnesota and beyond came together? hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

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Inside the Nationwide Resistance to the ICE Invasions

The mass popular opposition to ICE “surges” led to a sea change in public opinion. Now organizers are asking: What’s next?

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“Riley sees part of his job as bringing coalition-building ideas to the forefront, with his films serving as a kind of instruction manual for society,” writes Sarah Hagi in our Summer issue. hammerandhope.org/article/boot...

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Boots Riley Wants You to Organize

The filmmaker’s second feature, “I Love Boosters,” is a surrealist, anti-capitalist roller coaster.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I also recommend the magazine Hammer and Hope. It's on Bluesky: @hammerandhope.bsky.social

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026

I'm so glad this article exists & I read it. You should too. It's wild how often we think because a man uses certain phrases or metaphors, he understands patriarchy & misogyny. Unfortunately access to that language does not equal understanding of systems that are meant to break all of us

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For Issue No. 11, the culture journalist Mankaprr Conteh traveled to Greenville, S.C. to interview the R&B artist Isaia Huron. But what should have been a straightforward conversation became a bigger story about the the post-Me-Too-era manosphere. hammerandhope.org/article/isai...

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Is This What R&B Sounds Like When You Don’t Respect Women?

An emerging artist sings to an anti-intellectual misogyny growing common among men.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As the U.S. approaches the midterms, the right wing has stepped up its attacks on democracy in general and the Black vote in particular. In Issue No. 11, legal scholar and Hammer & Hope editorial board member Vincent M. Southerland surveys the moment. hammerandhope.org/article/supr...

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The Supreme Court Blesses the Destruction of Black Electoral Power

The court’s conservative supermajority has gutted what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Remembering Greg Tate. FLYBOY was the book I brought with me when I emigrated. My guidebook.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Inspired by the reissue of Greg Tate’s "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" and New Eyes Collective, a new group of Black culture writers, we invited nine artists and writers to reflect on how the erudite critic influenced them. hammerandhope.org/forums/greg-...

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Introduction | Hammer & Hope

Hammer & Hope — Nine artists and writers, including Joan Morgan and dream hampton, reflect on how the legendary critic and musician inspired them.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For today's newsletter, Hammer & Hope spoke with a Quechua Indigenous woman who is a protest leader and member of the National Confederation of Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia–Bartolina Sisa about the situation in Bolivia. mailchi.mp/hammerandhop...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Maya Meredith and Afua Atta-Mensah wrote about how Mamdani's staff campaigned in Black neighborhoods for @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...

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Inside the Mamdani Campaign’s Appeal to Black Voters

Zohran Mamdani’s political director describes what the campaign did to engage Black communities and put together a winning multiracial coalition.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For Issue No. 11, we partnered with @economichardship.bsky.social to send Lisa Armstrong to Sparta, where she observed what the Voting Rights Act has been protecting all along. hammerandhope.org/article/voti...

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These Black Georgians Refuse to Be Silenced

A campaign to stop a railroad company’s land grab and protect Black ancestral sites shows just what the Voting Rights Act has been protecting all along.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/07/2026

"The white left" okay guy Subscribe to @hammerandhope.bsky.social, everybody! Capitalism and racialized identities were invented at the same time, the latter to serve the former. They can't be taken separately. The sooner the "white left" does the reading, the closer we all get to victory, thx

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Today is what would have been the great June Jordan's 90th birthday. In our latest issue @roshanabraham.bsky.social writes about why the acclaimed poet's land reform novel was never published. hammerandhope.org/article/june...

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What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?

For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

From Issue No. 11: Khury Petersen-Smith of @ips-dc.org argues “the authoritarian regimes in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel and Donald Trump’s America are operating parallel projects, egging each other on to more and more grotesque extremes." hammerandhope.org/article/isra...

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Israel’s New Lynching Law Was Inspired by America’s Death Penalty

The far-right rulers of Israel and the U.S. are pursuing a common project, in which an oppressive policy of one becomes a model for the other.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In our latest issue, @nancymaclean.bsky.social meditates on the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because MAGA, she writes, is "counting on public amnesia about why these transformative policies were needed in the first place and how they were won." hammerandhope.org/article/civi...

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The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice

By turning DEI into a slur, Trump and MAGA want to erase the radical promise of the movement that won civil rights.

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Jonathan Wyrtzen @jonathanwyrtzen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

ROBIN D. G. KELLEY on this 250th anniversary

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026

The whole thing is a typical masterclass, but this last paragraph is, I think, the answer to a week’s worth of discourse On Here.

So whose Fourth of July is it, really? If the long movement for Black freedom claimed the Declaration and its various revisions as weapons, inspirations, a North Star, a nightmare, then the Fourth of July is ours, too. But not to commemorate a nation's birthday, and certainly not to celebrate the
"birth of freedom."

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"The Declaration’s significance extends far beyond the aims of the American Revolution or an expression of American nationalism," writes Robin D.G. Kelley in Issue No. 11. hammerandhope.org/article/robi...

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“Do You Understand Your Own Language?”

Black radicals read the Declaration of Independence.

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"To acknowledge the validity of Black historical perspectives is to accept the possibility that the U.S. might not be the greatest nation ever," writes @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social in the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/batt...

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The Battle to Tell Black History

The right-wing attacks on Black studies have devastating consequences, but they won’t stop people from telling our history.

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JuliJess @julianajess.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you aren't already a member/supporter of @hammerandhope.bsky.social there is no time like the present to help sustain this crucial source of politics and analysis.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Robin DG Kelley on the Declaration

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Declaration of Independence "is most powerful when the people it was never meant to represent grab hold of its language and toss it back like an undetonated grenade, whether those hands belong to Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam."

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"The Declaration’s significance extends far beyond the aims of the American Revolution or an expression of American nationalism," writes Robin D.G. Kelley in Issue No. 11. hammerandhope.org/article/robi...

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“Do You Understand Your Own Language?”

Black radicals read the Declaration of Independence.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

America's 250 yrs is rife with struggle & progress & setbacks. Found a (shameful, distant) link to my employer in this great essay on the birth of anti-discrimination policies @hammerandhope.bsky.social + and Trump's war against them. hammerandhope.org/article/civi...

The ruling ideology of the Jim Crow era treated policies that advantaged whites and excluded Blacks as simply the natural order of things. The all-pervasive, habitual employer preference for whites was invisible to those who benefited from it. Employers simply assumed white superiority over unqualified Black people. In 1963, the Southern Regional Council, an Atlanta-based interracial reform group, released a survey detailing corporations’ attitudes about discrimination in hiring practices. Many of those interviewed could not imagine hiring African Americans in sales or service, let alone technical work. A manager for Kaiser Aluminum said it would be “rather ridiculous” to hire a Black salesperson for a company serving mostly white customers.

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LeVar Burton’s Teaching Assistant @readingrainbowz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Frederick Douglass made it plain: “There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In Issue No. 11, Hammer & Hope turns a critical eye on the United States’ 250th birthday. Over the next few days we’ll be sharing excerpts from essays which meditate on nearly three centuries of white supremacy and as many years of resistance. hammerandhope.org/article/250-...

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250 Years of White Supremacy

And as many years of resistance.

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Sean Jacobs @seanjacobs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I wrote a piece for @hammerandhope.bsky.social about the class and racial politics of the USMNT. I was even more pleased that the artist Thenjiwe Nkosi (I don't think she is on BlueSky) did the art for it.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@hammerandhope.bsky.social More 🔥🔥🔥in the brand new issue of Hammer and Hope hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"You almost feel like you’re in a zoo or a fishbowl the way they're watching you," @lumumbabandele.bsky.social writes in the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social. "It was absolutely fun, but those things are hard to ignore." hammerandhope.org/article/knic...

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Celebrating the Knicks in Brooklyn

A native New Yorker on what the team’s win means in a gentrified city.

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 29/06/2026

NEW: Israel’s new death penalty law is a further development of an apartheid state that has legalized oppression. People in the U.S. — especially those concerned with the rights of Black folks — should take note. IPS scholar Khury Petersen-Smith in @hammerandhope.bsky.social:

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Israel’s New Lynching Law Was Inspired by America’s Death Penalty

The far-right rulers of Israel and the U.S. are pursuing a common project, in which an oppressive policy of one becomes a model for the other.