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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like a bot but this happened today

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Jay Z ad we’re about to get

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Things don’t change when we do better, we can’t just “be the change we want to see” - we have to believe we’re all better than our worst mistakes.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Can’t put in words how angry I am about Jason Arday’s death and possible s**cide. We play all day with life, lobbing shame and guilt at people like self righteous kids who just learned adults ruined the world not realizing we’re only repeating the same failure ourselves.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

•Panel of Candis Smith’s “Black Evidence” on Sept. 3 with Jamila Michener and Tehama Lopez @wwnorton.com • Panel of “From Higher Learning to Charlottesville” on Sept. 4 with Tyson King-Meadows and Christine Slaughter.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We are who we need when we come together. Upcoming: • Moderating a talk with Politics and Prose Aug. 17 for the amazing new book “Searching for Jane Crow” by Talitha LeFlouria @beaconpress.bsky.social • @apsa.bsky.social Panel discussion about America 250 with Elizabeth Matto and Bennett Grubbs.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

to my life mentors Freeman Hrabowski and Beth Richie, my spiritual mentor Rev. Jesse Brown at First Baptist Church of Chicago, my north star in Southside Together, my wider Chicago family, my Fort Meade CYS, and wider DMV family, UMBC, Job Corps family, GU, and of course Howard University.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“how scholarship and community practice can work together to strengthen democracy.” Grateful to Colette Anton, Courtney Carter DeJesus, and everyone at the @harvardash.bsky.social Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for this feature conversation. And as you’ll read, forever grateful

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“For Marcus Board Jr., democracy has never been just an academic subject—it has always been about people. As a 2025-2027 Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, the Howard University political scientist explores”… 1/5

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A More Perfect Union: Marcus Board Jr. On Bridging Practice and Scholarship – Ash Center

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Next Insurrection: Play by Play open.substack.com/pub/profmbj/...

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This was an amazing discussion and I learned so much. A recording will be available. A privilege to be with these folks.

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Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

That was a wonderful conversation!!

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You were incredible, my student text me and quoted you so precisely!!! He was amazed by your openness to and support of students

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Excited to join my colleagues! Pop into our discussion on the unfinished revolution - link below us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Leslie-Anne Frank @l-afrank.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This clip features stirring images from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement to LBJ signing the law. But check out the full interview in the link. Marcus breaks down politics, elections, the shift to courting the Black vote, etc. A great interview w/ a super smart political scientist!

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

July 2, 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed. A brief history from the early 1930s through Critical Race Theory onto today and the new struggles with preemption, which stop us from pursing legal pathways. The more you know. Link Below: www.livenowfox.com/video/fmc-il...

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Talking Langston Hughes's Darker Brother, Frederick Douglass' What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, and DuBois dying in Ghana before the march on Washington. Great conversation with Adam Llorens about dealing with a crisis of conscience. Let us know what you think.

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Marcus Board Jr. (@profmbj)

Rain man. Trump is PSH in Along Came Polly taking over the local community theater (aka United States government). He's a stand up with a loud mic treating us like hecklers in the crowd. Talking Lang...

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“Because you might accidentally have a Klan rally” isn’t something you ever expect to think. In a disconnected and segregated world, what you DON’T know is hurting so many others. Got a chance to talk with Adam Llorens about the Chicago fire starter and the enduring value of a whole education.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Why do American’s have so much trouble talking about race? I joined Adam Llorens with LiveNow to talk about Juneteenth and ended up in a wide ranging and incredible conversation about freedom, community, and change. Extended segment at the link below.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Princeton's Valedictorian is, for the first time, an African American Studies Major. Daniel Yu is in (trans) gender studies. And now you know the stakes of the piece. Again, grateful for my brilliant friends who read and enjoyed. We can't gatekeep freedom - let it ring from the mountaintops!

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So You Wanna Keep Black Studies to Black People: Denying Princeton’s Valedictorian, an African American Studies Major

The 2026 valedictorian at Princeton University is Daniel Yu.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

the love of those willing to stand in solidarity with people who refuse to be degraded, dehumanized, and disrespected for the entirety of their existence. Stand on something.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Trumpism is the new chattel slavery, the new Jane and Jim Crow, and you said you were ready to fight like the ancestors they forced us to forget. They might forget us too, but at least when we move on to our next life we can have pride, self-respect, dignity, and most of all

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Breaking news: America is an abusive relationship and we’ve tried therapy for over 250 years. They’ve killed every generation of every one of our families. We have to fight back and resist a government determined to keep killing us forever along with every life loving ally we have around the world.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

How does this affect me What's changed and What do we need to know going forward? Talking Voting Rights Act and how to fight back voter suppression. #DrMarcusBoard #Explore #BlackSky #ForYou #Politics

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Shared this essay with a few brilliant friends who enjoyed. Sharing here to see what others think. More coming on the powerful connections between anti-intellectualism and anti-Blackness. open.substack.com/pub/profmbj/...

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A (Better) Critique of Whiteness: Let’s Talk About Ending Oppression

bell hooks.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social , @profmbj.bsky.social ( @howard.edu ) is featured in The Pluralist 21.1, an issue that publishes the SAAP 2025 Conference. He contributes to the Coss Dialogue, discussing the work of Dominic Moulden with other scholars. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56411

Cover of The Pluralist: The Journal of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2026
Blue and green background with table of contents

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Joined @cnn.com to talk about what global protest means after we go home. These moments matter- what we do next matters even more. #NoKings 1/2

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“With all the power, wealth, and resources in the world, brilliance at their fingertips, and the best idea they have is to rebuild statues honoring the forefathers and mothers of the Epstein class.” More on monuments, check out PS 2020 - Andrea Benjamin et al on the topic!

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Toppled Monuments Are Reappearing Across the U.S. Under Trump | Artnet News

Controversial statues removed in protest are returning across the U.S., from a Columbus figure at the White House to Confederate monuments.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Commented on Trump putting a Christopher Columbus statue at the White House for The Grio. Mince words, I did not. Link below these bars

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 04/03/2026

I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I miss my premium tank tops and shirts. The itchy struggle continues.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Economics is a politically conservative field. Their conclusions are often biased towards empire. Here is a breakdown of the way they use words to hide intention. It's the wizard of oz and we are not in the good place.

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It’s not just the immensity of the work that’s encouraging; it’s the way her portraiture expands our collective assessments about identity, so that the read becomes too broad, too complex, to be pigeonholed. baltimorebeat.com/epically-ecs...

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Epically, ecstatically, and sublimely Black: A reflection on Amy Sherald’s mid-career retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Standing before Amy Sherald’s work, you must learn to stretch; many of her canvases require the reorientation of your perspective, inspire you to become more flexible about your vantage, crane your…

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Allen Louis Linton II @allenlinton2.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The disconnect between women's clothing sizes and the women who buy them is stunning. Good article here

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Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

New war just dropped. People are made poor to fight wars. Wars create new destinations to visit. Is this the world economy we produce, uphold?

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Saying “it’s fashion” & it’s just someone dressed as the tea kettle from beauty and the beast. Like sure, you’re right but I don’t have to be happy about it

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Carrying a gun probably ensures you’re gonna shoot one person. You should never ever get to shoot a second person. If you shoot a human being, you should never get to fire a weapon again.

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Marcus Board Jr. @profmbj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Every single job in this country incentivizes this casual level of dehumanizing. We’re closed. We can’t help now. We have somewhere to be. Every possible reason not to help exactly this person, the stranger speaking another language somewhere unexpected and confused. A system without a conscience.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

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