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John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason

@johnmajoreason.bsky.social
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“You gotta be rock solid, not to be outsmarted The rise from rock-bottom to one of the top scholars.”

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"D’Angelo also chafed at the description of his music as simply neo-soul. “I never claimed I do neo-soul,” he said in a Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014. “When I first came out, I used to always say: ‘I do Black music. I make Black music.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
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Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Just published an annual review of a field we're calling "The Political Economy of Policing." It highlights great work on the links between police and society's major political/economic institutions. Thanks to my great coauthors Lauren Hagani and Gabe Rojas. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Political Economy of Policing
This article synthesizes emerging research on the political economy of policing, conceptualized through a Gramscian framework that examines policing as an interinstitutional structure shaped by econom...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This took my breath
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"I know it’s too hot in my prison when the floor is weeping. The walkways are glistening in their own version of sweat upon which we slip, slide and fall."
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Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.
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American Bar Foundation @abfresearch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Thirty-one men at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, positioned their bodies in the shape of the letters “SOS." "The SOS is not an isolated event but a symptom of a greater problem." New from @johnmajoreason.bsky.social the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law:
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What’s Happening Inside This ICE Facility in Texas Should Shock Your Conscience
We know this is the America that some have fought hard to create. Is this the America that we will accept?
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Give her a break. She needed to order the proper search and rescue outfit for her pictures. That takes time.
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John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason @johnmajoreason.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Just say no to ICE slate.com/news-and-pol...
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What’s Happening Inside This ICE Facility in Texas Should Shock Your Conscience
We know this is the America that some have fought hard to create. Is this the America that we will accept?
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today marks the 11th year since Flint officially had its water source switched to the Flint River. Last year, Keishaun Wade, a Flint resident who works with my lab, wrote about how the Flint Water Crisis was not over. The essay is just as relevant now. theemancipator.org/2024/04/25/t...
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The Flint water crisis is not over, ten years later
What happened in Flint wasn’t an accident. The media circus is gone, but the injustices that caused the water crisis are still in place.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI” Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
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Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural
Symbols aren’t just symbols.
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John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason @johnmajoreason.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Corporations and the feds say no Diversity Equity but this is acceptable? Y’all ok with this Newman Tractor?
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John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason @johnmajoreason.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
When the reasons your federal grants are rescinded looks sounds like this academic freedom and freedom of speech are both being snuffed out by white supremacy
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The contemporary GOP platform is segregationists, and they hope to repeal the entire legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
they are segregationists, attacking a monument to the civil rights heroes that destroyed segregation
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Exactly this.
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 06/03/2025
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
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Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out @nicolefcarr.bsky.social’s newletter recapping our discussion of The Great Resegregation with @theemancipator.org’s @ibramxk.bsky.social and @amberpayne.bsky.social. This was part of the 24 hour “State of the People” livestream. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
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On dangerous times and "The State of the People"
Ahead of the State of the Union, I joined Amber Payne and Ibram X. Kendi of The Emancipator, alongside sociologist Victor Ray. The topic? The Great Resegregation. History would like a word with us.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:
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a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
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Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Did not know this was Angie Stone … foundational hip hop … RIP: open.spotify.com/track/1Q0oJ2...
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Funk You Up - Long Version
Sequence · The Sugar Hill Records Story · Song · 2009
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Here we go…
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Staff at West Virginia federal prison resign after retention pay cuts in federal prisons
Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is being cut, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Naiima Khahaifa, a member of Duke University's African & African American Studies Department presents her research at the @black-think-tank.bsky.social's 1st New Faculty Symposium
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
These folks sound exactly like Jim Crow-era managers who were "personally in favor" of integration but worried about all the ruckus.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Algernon Austin: There is a racial preference in the job market. It’s for white people.
Individuals with similar skills should have similar outcomes, but this is not the reality. White people are given a preference.
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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I didnt win the Image Award but this lovely article about my being nominated made me smile. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Noliwe Rooks’s book on civil rights activist, educator nominated for NAACP award
Rooks’s book on Mary McLeod Bethune was nominated for Outstanding Literary Work.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“Roberta Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness,” the writer and folklorist Julius Lester once observed. “More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is, at times, almost unbearable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/a...
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Roberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Behind ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88 (Gift Article)
With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Trust in the press is falling in part becays of this refusal to plainly state what we can all see. This is a Nazi salute. It’s embarassing how much threats from the world’s worst people have cowed the mainstream media.
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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I don’t know that I have seen anyone consolidate power this quickly. Ive read about it, but havent seen it! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION
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John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason @johnmajoreason.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
See y’all next week in Chicago! irrpp.uic.edu/events/john-...
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Bringing Down the Big House: Reframing Abolition as Policy | Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy | University of Illinois Chicago Universi...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights. Happening right now. Right in front of us.
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Scottish mum x @scottishmum.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
What happened to freedom of speech?
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
One of the questions after my talk today was about scientists refusing to buck the administration because they fear losing their jobs. I said that a lot of self-styled apolitical scientists lost their jobs this week, so silence will not save them. Respond and keep your values and dignity.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
After a decade of right-wing fools yelling about “cancel culture,” “free-speech,” and an (imaginary) threat of left-wing censorship, the first thing they do when the get power is ban talking about anything that hurts their little feelings. Ok, back to writing about these neo-segregationists.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A full circle moment, as Tricia Rose joined me on #LeftOfBlack for a wide-ranging conversation about her recent book 'Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free' (Basic Books) and the contemporary state of Black Expressive Culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflD...
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Left of Black | Prof. Tricia Rose on Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives
YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Again, these folks have been in power before and yet still do not know how anything works. What in the world did they learn over four years in control of the federal government? Why isn’t this inexcusable incompetence a major story?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
uhhh kinda feels like maybe they should publish those birds flu studies? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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CDC scientific report resumes publication after unprecedented pause
But three studies about bird flu remain on hold even as the outbreak spreads.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
From the folks that brought you “diversity of thought,” a list of words that shut down Nationl Science Foundation funding.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 03/02/2025
In a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, the losing candidate is trying to have more than 60,000 valid votes thrown out. Scholars who study collapsing democracies characterize the efforts as a dramatic escalation of democratic backsliding.
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In North Carolina, an Attempt to Overturn a State Supreme Court Election
The losing candidate for a seat on the high court is trying to have more than 60,000 valid votes thrown out.
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John “Renegade Scholar & Teacher” Eason @johnmajoreason.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In this new piece we reconsider rurality and region (especially the South) to think about how they shape the criminal legal system www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Crime, Violence, and Criminal Justice in Rural America: Toward a Rural Neighborhood Effect | Annual Reviews
We review the current scholarship on rural policing, punishment, crime, and reentry. We shift the focus from the “square of crime” to an expansive understanding of crime and punishment in rural commun...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
'Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine notions of Blackness.' www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
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Americans Feel Isolated. Imani Perry Wants to Help Them Connect. (Gift Article)
Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine noti...
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