Taiyon J Coleman, MFA, PhD (she/her)

Much gratitude @KirkusReviews for their review of my upcoming essay collection @UMinnPress June 2024! 🙏🏾 kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/t…

What a game! Eight Olympic gold medals in a row – congrats to the women’s @usabasketball team on an incredible win!

On today's (7/19) show - @cliffschecter on the RNC and Biden! @TaiyonJColeman talks about her new book. The anti-Biden Dems lack of a plan. Mauer highlights? Technology down. Cal Bahr is horrible. Newspaper lies. Blyleven gets pulled. TRAIN! @beck! soundcloud.com/user-587903571…

I highly recommend the @TaiyonJColeman book "Traveling without Moving, Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America" from @UMinnPress! Get a copy on the link. upress.umn.edu/9781517913298/…

An absolute privilege to talk to @TaiyonJColeman about her book 'Traveling Without Moving, Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America," from @UMinnPress! We talked about her personal story and how the essays reflect that. #Spotlight Interview! soundcloud.com/user-587903571…

#ClipOfTheDay: @TaiyonJColeman reads from her book, Traveling Without Moving: Essays From a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America (@UMinnPress), in this @MoonPalaceBooks event with April Gibson and Lester A. Batiste. at.pw.org/TaiyonColeman

Join us tonight to relive Jesse Owens' inspiring journey at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he overcame immense challenges to win four gold medals and change the world of athletics forever. Watch Jesse Owens: American Experience tonight at 9 PM on TPT 2.

Racism Kills. This JAMA study in Black women shows an association between racism and connectivity in brain pathways 🧠involved with rumination leading to increased vulnerability in developing stress-related disorders & neurodegenerative diseases. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

We have only a tip of the iceberg understanding of how racism impacts Black health! This @JAMA_current study shows an association w/ greater connectivity in brain pathways involved with rumination —>increased vulnerability to stress disorders & neurodegenerative disease…

A new investigative report reveals that while the federal government did grant land to the formerly enslaved after the Civil War, it also took that land back and returned it to white southerners. @IAmAmnaNawaz speaks to @AlexiaCampbell to learn more.

Remembering Queer Matron of Afrofuturism, one of Nona's nightbirds, Ms. Octavia Butler who was born 77 years ago today

“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” - Toni Morrison

I knew, but didn’t fully appreciate until reading this @NYTmag piece by @lindavillarosa about the dangers of hair relaxers, how my parents truly protected my health and well-being! They encouraged my sister and me to love our natural hair despite anti-Black messaging everywhere.

Y’all better listen to this icon’s stories. Some of you want to engage in a nostalgia that erases the horrors and degradation of American apartheid in order to tell a feel-good story of progress. Reggie Jackson refused to allow it. We cannot move on as so many want until we tell the truth and until we make repair.

Much appreciation 🌠🎇to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) @JBHEdotcom for including Traveling without Moving @UMinnPress in their “Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars.” jbhe.com/2024/06/recent…

Many thanks 💐 @WashInformer “Books” & Terri Schlichenmeyer @bookwormsez for reviewing Traveling without Moving @UMinnPress!💫 washingtoninformer.com/traveling-with…

Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze star in Channing Godfrey Peoples’ ‘MISS JUNETEENTH.’ Streaming on Netflix.

As we honor #Juneteenth and continue to work to protect and advance Black political power, let us reflect, educate, vote, and take action to ensure that in commemorating the past, we continue to light the path toward meaningful change forward. naacpldf.org/juneteenth-vot…

A Teen Girl Recalls Juneteenth in the 1950s written by: @CharlesMBlow britannica.com/story/a-teen-g…

Happy Juneteenth y’all! #Juneteenth