Fresh off the presses and coming to a bookstore near you. Featuring: James Baldwin, @KeeangaYamahtta, Zadie Smith, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jill Lepore, Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Alexander, Kelefa Sanneh, Henry Louis Gates, Hilton Als, Doreen St. Felix, Emily Nussbaum, Malcolm Gladwell, Vinson Cunningham MANY more.
Black History Month, Day 1. Corner of Sunset Boulevard & La Cienega, Los Angeles. Photo credit to the homie @ttarahaynes
Black History Month, Day 1. Corner of Sunset Boulevard & La Cienega, Los Angeles. Photo credit to the homie @ttarahaynes
Hollis, to be precise.
Of all the things I’ve taught my students I’m most proud of their attention to detail.
Thank you to everyone @eccobooks for this gorgeous keepsake edition of The Matter of Black Lives. This picture does not do its beauty justice.
After like 200 shots here is my DIY author photo. Next time I’ll just take a selfie and call it a day.
And I mean every word of this. W. Kamau Bell’s doc We Need to Talk About Cosby is out today on Showtime.
Being impersonated by someone who probably don’t even know what the numbers are for.
Passed by Book Culture on Broadway and saw that they’d put my Kerner Commission book in the window. A sure day-brightener. 🙏🏾
Back to the hotel room series. #albuquerque
Posted up under an awning during the monsoon and watched the wet world go by.
Posted up under an awning during the monsoon and watched the wet world go by.
Posted up under an awning during the monsoon and watched the wet world go by.
Posted up under an awning during the monsoon and watched the wet world go by.
The Matter of Black Lives is in the top 100 sellers on Amazon and #1 in essays. Thank you all SO much for supporting this project! (Now go support your local independent bookseller!)
“The Man Behind Critical Race Theory.” I spent part of my summer digging into the life and work of Derrick Bell, a pivotal figure in the development of Critical Race Theory, the movement now being maligned and pilloried by conservative media and politicians. Their claims have nothing to do with what Bell thought or wrote but oddly manage to validate the precise points he was making about the persistence of racism. Out this week in the New Yorker magazine and available on the New Yorker website.
“The Man Behind Critical Race Theory.” I spent part of my summer digging into the life and work of Derrick Bell, a pivotal figure in the development of Critical Race Theory, the movement now being maligned and pilloried by conservative media and politicians. Their claims have nothing to do with what Bell thought or wrote but oddly manage to validate the precise points he was making about the persistence of racism. Out this week in the New Yorker magazine and available on the New Yorker website.
I had the good fortune to curate a news reading list on Apple News for Black History Month. Check it out in today’s feed (if you have an iPhone.)
Courtesy of @heatherking555
Amid the fiery tumult of last summer I sat down with @matthew.guariglia to revise and re-contextualize the Kerner Report, the most thorough government examination of racial inequality of its era. This is the result. Tragically as relevant as it was in 1968. On bookshelves now.
