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Michelle Twali

@michelletwali.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology. Research: collective victimhood, power, social change, & displaced populations.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 04/08/2026
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/edwin-lope...
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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Is the 23rd Person to Die in ICE Custody in 2026
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump.
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Helping Kids! Lab @helpingkidslab.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📣 Reminder! @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social is presenting at #ISPP26 tomorrow! Check out the details below. We hope to see you there! #DevelopmentalPsychology #HelpingKidsLab
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
STEM Black History Fact 2/28 Dr. Patricia Bath invented laser cataract surgery, restoring sight to people who had been blind for decades. cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/b...
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Changing the Face of Medicine | Patricia E. Bath
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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
STEM Black History Fact 1/28 Dr. Alice Ball developed the first effective treatment for leprosy in 1915, well before antibiotics were known. Her work went uncredited for years. Dr. Ball - "I work and work and still it seems that I have done nothing." www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
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Fiona Kazarovytska @zakfio.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EASP 2026 PRECONFERENCES
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
How do authoritarian regimes keep power over people who have left their countries? @fulyafelicity.bsky.social's job market paper “Remote Control: Authoritarian Diaspora Engagement Policies and Emigrant Political Behavior” (and the dissertation from which it draws) answers that question! 🧵
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Former ISPP leadership responding to ISPP statement on Gaza
September 1, 2025 Dear colleagues, dear members of the current ISPP Executive Committee, We write as former members of the ISPP leadership (including former president(s), vice president(s), Governi...
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Really useful resource for RAs and others interested in doing field work in international settings, or any rigorous empirical work in social sciences @poverty-action.bsky.social just launched the IPA Knowledge Hub data.poverty-action.org
Screenshot from the IPA Knowledge Hub home page. Headers are "Research Design", "Research Ethics", "Data Quality", "Data Collection", "Data Cleaning", and "Software Guides"
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Andy Pinedo @profandy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Do you want to know more about factors associated with civic engagement and collective action? Check out our (@natekruger.bsky.social) latest article on the topic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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When opportunity structures matter for unfolding the sociopolitical development of adolescents and young adults
Recognizing the significant roles of youth in social change efforts, research has increasingly aimed to clarify the processes that promote critical action among young people. Studies on sociopolitica....
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Elif Sandal Önal @elifsandal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Our EASP-SPSSI Joint Conference 'Linking Collective Memory and Collective Action' is taking start today with the opening speech by @azick.bsky.social and two great keynote speeches by Prof. William Hirst and @rezartabilali.bsky.social Stay tuned and follow #memoryaction2025 hashtag for the updates.
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Laura K Taylor @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Just read this 🗞️, thanks to a post from @michelletwali.bsky.social @rezartabilali.bsky.social tells is straight: Without context, we can be exacerbating conflict @helpingkidslab.bsky.social folks, a great read @pacjournal.bsky.social welcomes articles with this context embedded!
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Very relevant review paper by my colleague & friend @rezartabilali.bsky.social on why it's crucial that research on intergroup conflict incorporates sociopolitical and historical contexts when studying psychological processes.
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The need for context in intergroup conflict research
Nature Reviews Psychology - Research into intergroup conflict often overlooks the sociopolitical and historical contexts that shape psychological processes. This lack of attention to context can...
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rezartabilali.bsky.social @rezartabilali.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In this commentary in Nat. Rev. Psych, I reflect on the need to bring sociopolitical/historical contexts more centrally into soc. psych research on conflict. Reflections draw on tensions I've faced in my work, and critical feedback from participants, practitioners, and colleagues: rdcu.be/etk1f
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Join us next week for a discussion on a paper on power & resistance among Kurdish diaspora together with @canancoskan.bsky.social and Hu Young Jeong: tinyurl.com/Kurdish-Power
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Virtual Meeting Series on Resistance in Repressive and Violence Contexts, session on Kurdish power. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email...
A "peer review as conversation" session (90 min.), with Dr. canan coskan (author), Dr. Michelle Twali (peer reviewer), and Dr. Hu Young Jeong (peer reviewer) Title of the working paper to be discussed...
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Excited that our new paper on how Black Americans’ perceptions of ingroup power relate to engagement in resistance is finally out!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Discussions on inclusivity, representation, and researchers’ responsibility are more important than ever in today’s sociocultural context. A heartfelt thank you to the 80+ participants and our amazing panelists for joining the roundtable and contributing to this vital conversation. 🙌🌐
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 05/05/2025
NSF Halts New Funding and Caps Indirect Rate Costs The National Science Foundation won’t award any new funding “until further notice.” The agency also moved to cap indirect research rates at 15 percent. Meanwhile, President Trump proposed cutting... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4335aRx
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NSF Halts New Funding and Caps Indirect Rate Costs
The National Science Foundation won’t award any new funding “until further notice.” The agency also moved to cap indirect research rates at 15 percent. Meanwhile, President Trump proposed cutting the ...
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The Immigration Hub launched a new site called Disappeared in America. It's a living archive of people caught in Trump’s deportation dragnet. The homie Claudia Hernandez put a lot of work into this. Check it out. “Everyone targeted deserves to be seen, remembered, and defended.”
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Disappeared In America
A mother and her three children were seized by ICE in a pre-dawn raid near Trump’s border czar Tom Homan’s home, despite following the legal process. After ten days in a Texas detention center and a w...
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New paper alert by my incredible colleague @jorgecuartas.bsky.social! In a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from 92 LMIC, they show that physical punishment is consistently linked to detrimental outcomes for children.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews
This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...
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Hiro Yoshikawa @hiroyoshikawany.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Our Florida study with @micapollock.bsky.social and colleagues - still the only study to examine educators’ and parents’ experiences of the full set of K12 education policies in Florida -is described in Freedom to Read’s call: www.freedomtoreadproject.org/the_power_of...
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The Power of Resistance: Fighting Book Bans Before It’s Too Late
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A letter to demand Mahmoud’s release — be careful if you’re a non citizen signing onto documents like this actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
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Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is not about fighting antisemitism. This is all about silencing opposing views. Today it’s pro-Palestine, tomorrow it’s pro-Ukraine, and then it’s just deporting whomever they don’t like. And then everyone is silent.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is a very important story. It is also important to understand that this is how ICE operates. They disappear people. Family members and lawyers often cannot get information from ICE about where inmates are located and they cannot contact them. It has been this way for a long time.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Want to support civilian-led mutual aid networks in Sudan AND learn from and with amazing organizers, poets, scholars and artists? Sign up for our Workshops4Sudan at sudansolidarity.com. The line up includes Ruthie Gilmore, @williamcson.bsky.social @raniawrites.bsky.social, Safia El Hillo…(1/2)
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Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm hiring a new lab manager! Deadline to apply is April 1st. More details here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu... I formed some of my deepest and most impactful partnerships as a lab manager, and it's a position that I highly value. If you are a PI, please circulate to possible applicants!
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Jorge Cuartas @jorgecuartas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New open-access study in the Journal of Cognition and Development exploring the potential impact of climate change on families and human development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence
Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Important thread on how lessons of the Holocaust has guided contemporary violence prevention.
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join us in the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting series next Monday, March 3, for a session with Dr. Azadeh Akbari (and discussants Joshua Uyheng & Ali Teymoori) on "Resistance Within and Against Digital Surveillance Regimes". Registration link and more info on the series in 🧵
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The deadline for the Joint SPSSI-EASP conference linking collective memory & collective action is Friday,March 21! Come connect with scholars conducting research in this area. There is no participation fee & accommodation + food will be included. www.easp.eu/getmedia.php...
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Broader reminder of what happens when attacks come and we stay silent about them because we don't perceive them as affecting our specific group.
First they came poem:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
2 of 3 reviewers on my interpretive qualitative paper want intercoder reliability tests, random sample to prevent selection bias, tables w/counts, comparison to those not interviewed, & generalizability. If you are NOT qualified to review qualitative research, please say no to the journal's request.
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Important thread.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So many gems in this essay.
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
More Than a Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, One Question Endures: What Is Justice? www.nytimes.com/card/2025/01...
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More Than a Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, One Question Endures: What Is Justice?
Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
5/8. The *targeted universal* approach (emphasizing racial equity benefits) also increased support *and* advocacy intentions among Black and Hispanic respondents. It did NOT reduce policy support or advocacy intentions among White respondents or Republicans (as many people fear).
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Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health and Social Policy @commhsp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🚨 New study in PNAS Nexus! Strategic messaging on equity and the Child Tax Credit expansion can build support across racial, ethnic, and political groups. Findings show that well-crafted messages emphasizing shared values and policy benefits can resonate widely. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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Centering historically minoritized populations to design effective messages about an evidence-based policy to advance social equity
Abstract. Researchers have raised concerns that messages describing racial disparities in social outcomes can reduce or polarize support for public policie
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
1/8. You might have heard that it’s a bad idea to talk about (racial) inequality and/or equity-enhancing programs and policies. Over the past few years, both scholars and pundits have argued those messages undermine support for important policies. Well, that conclusion may be a bit premature.
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Elif Sandal Önal @elifsandal.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We (with Meral Gezici-Yalçın and @michelletwali.bsky.social) are so excited to announce our Joint SPSSI-EASP small conference, will be held on 9-11 July, 2025 @ Bielefeld: “Linking Collective Memory and Collective Action”. Check our CfP here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/?id... Deadline: February 21, 2025
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Call for Papers: Joint SPSSI-EASP Small Conference on Linking Collective Memory and Collective Action
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Here is Part I with an introduction that provides context and the first interview with one of the leaders of a farmers alliance. hammerandhope.org/article/suda...
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In Sudan, the People’s Revolution Versus the Elite’s Counterrevolution
Elites profit off war at the expense of one of the most powerful movements for emancipation in the 21st century.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A few months ago some comrades and I put out a piece on Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war for which we interview 4 Sudanese and South Sudanese activists in Sudan/the region. We wanted to center the non-elitist, revolutionary voices of ppl who hve bn organizing agst the Sudanese state for decades.
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!
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Kevin Carriere @kcarriere.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This summer, with about a month before school started, I threw out everything for Intro and re-prepped it. I want to do the same this winter break with #socialpsyc. If anyone in socpsyc or polpsy has anything they are willing to share for Social, I'd love to see it!
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Michelle Twali @michelletwali.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Are you researching the relationship between collective memory & collective action? Join us for a SPSSI-EASP Small Conference on July 9-11, 2025 in Bielefeld, Germany. It will be a great collaboration and discussion. Deadline for abstracts Feb 21 2025. www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
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Call for Papers: Joint SPSSI-EASP Small Conference on Linking Collective Memory and Collective Action
Social Psychology News Articles
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Here’s a chat btwn #NikkiGiovanni & #JamesBaldwin I’ve watched a few times over the yrs. I love how deeply it centers Blackness. Both express skepticism abt Black political representation & discuss diversity of Black views abt so many topics from movements to masculinity. youtu.be/Pg2t5b0m2d4?...
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Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in conversation on 'SOUL!' (PART 2) | ALL ARTS Vault
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