Paula Austin

Tracing Black Lives Matter Back in Time - From The Square Shout out to DC Black young activists of yore. Thank you ⁦@NYUpress⁩ for featuring Susie Morgan. I’m still searching for her and her people btw. fromthesquare.org/tracing-black-…

Because it’s Black August, I want to let everyone know my PhD advisor Dr. LaShawn Harris’ new book Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City comes out on August 26th. To every Black woman, & Black New Yorkers, get this book.

I’m thrilled to organize this event at the Library Company of Philadelphia for Juneteenth. Please consider attending. Registration is free and open to the public. support.librarycompany.org/event/juneteen…

Paul Joseph López Oro on the podcast, talking about blackness, marronage indigineity, and garifuna diaspora experience. Great listen, here or at your fave stream: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Thanks @BeaconPressBks! beacon.org/Tell-Her-Story…

"Palestine Is Really the Center of the World": Angela Davis on Gaza, Black-Jewish Solidarity & Trump democracynow.org/2025/5/2/angel…

@AJohnsonHist You know I got you. Text me these travel plans!!

Favorite restaurants in Boston?

Join us for a powerful VIRTUAL discussion with #SNCCVeterans Judy Richardson and Dottie Zellner, and movement historian Emilye Crosby, as we explore SNCC, Women & Gender — and the lessons we can carry forward today! Register here: bit.ly/SNCCWomenAndGe… #SNCC #OurHistoryOurHumanity

Book Blurbs for "Tell Her Story" are in! #NYC #1980s #Blackwomen #History @BeaconPressBks beacon.org/Tell-Her-Story…

@CulturedModesty Congratulations!!

Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?

Amazing conversation with Ashley Smith-Purviance on the podcast, talking about Black girlhood studies, ethnography and Black Studies, and pedagogies of Black life. Worth your listening time! Here or most streaming services: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

We're SO excited for this panel! Join us in-person at Northeastern; space is limited so RSVP today! RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/new-books-in…

Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus

Mark your calendars for our new webinar series, The Battle for Higher Education: Courageous Voices in a Time of Crises. More info below:

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.” apnews.com/article/columb…

Do you have a chapter or essay that you would like to share with our #DigitalHistory Seminar Series in the 2025-26 season? Submit a proposal (500 wds) & CV (3 pgs) to seminars@masshist.org by 1 May. Questions? E-mail or DM. <masshist.org/seminars/l-den…>

It's never been a better time to think about #BlackPower. @ProfJeffries & I are co-editing a Special Issue on "The Roots and Routes of Black Power." Got thoughts & feels about activism past & present? Submit an article by July 1https://buff.ly/3uWLmmz

@blkprofcct FOOOOOOLLS

@ProfPAustin FOOLS

Can someone please explain to me which voters Dems (like Newsom) are going to win by taking positions like this? I can’t think of one ideological or demographic group of swing voters that (1) Democrats actually have a chance to win & (2) made their decision based on this issue…