Dr. Crystal A. deGregory

Some of the most important work happening inside institutions never becomes visible. On March 6, I’ll be with the faculty and staff of Benjamin Franklin Cummings Tech discussing Strategic Storytelling for Institutional Impact — and how institutions make their work visible.

Still need a #BlackHistoryMonth speaker? I’ve got you. Black history is just a month. It’s a living inheritance. Signature talks: • Carter G. to Infinity • Reconstruction to Right Now • HBCUs & Black Genius Book: crystaldegregory.com/bookings

Our Street just got a little longer. @YouTube now has the largest digital library of Sesame Street content! For the first time ever, more than 100 full episodes of Sesame Street are available for free on YouTube. Watch everything from beloved, iconic episodes to recent season adventures across the Sesame Street and Sesame Street Classics channels. Whether you’re an old friend or a brand-new pal, we’re so excited to welcome you to our neighborhood on YouTube.

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A new home for my work. Explore: crystaldegregory.com Let’s get to work. The future awaits us.

HBCUs Are Not Beyond Critique—But We Are Beyond Being Scapegoated open.substack.com/pub/herdue/p/h… #HBCU #HerDue

#OTD 1968 Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings passed away. She was one of 22 women at Howard University who founded Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. on January 13, 1913.

I finished everything I was called to do. Not by ease, but by endurance. What tried to undo me didn’t win. The fire refined me instead. I laid down what wasn’t mine. I honored what remained. Still here. Still standing. Only now becoming. #HerDue

Honored to join @TCLFdotorg for Landslide in Action: The Legacy of Two Major Campus Protests — remembering the 1924–25 @Fisk1866 Univ. student uprising and the power of protest as a sacred act of faith. Oct 29 | 12–1:15 PM ET • Free Registration 🔗 tclf.org/legacy-two-maj…

Faith without works is dead. Love without effort is, too. YOU CAN’T PLANT A SEED ONCE AND CALL IT A GARDEN FOREVER. Love, like faith, needs tending. Show up where love still lives. 🌱 #ThePresentPresent

A week ago, a week ago, I stood behind the sacred pulpit at Barber-Scotia College—the Home That Built Mary. There, I was humbled to receive the Presidential Service Award. In the beginning was—and is—faith! All who are forced to wander are not lost. #HomeThatBuiltMary #HerDue

Inside every woman is a little girl. When we police her edges, her voice, her power, we harden hearts & grow women who defend the cages that held them — freedom on the flyer, submission in the fine print — all while bowing to patriarchy at autocracy’s edge. #HerDue

my product is now in over 10 locations across my country. God is good. 🥹🙏🏾😭

Founder’s Day away from the Home That Mary Built—sowing into the Home That Built Mary. Standing where a young Mary McLeod once dreamed reminds me: Every founder was once a dreamer seeking believers. May we build boldly for those to follow. #BarberScotiaCollege #HailWildcats

🎶 Take a look, it’s in a book 🎶 After nearly 20 years… Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course… new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈✨ #FollowTheRainbow

Twenty years ago, Chalk’s Flight 101 fell into Government Cut. Lost were her grandfather & our cousin—clutched to his chest. Even so, she soars! Today I celebrate my good Bimini Saunders cousin: you were always enough. We are too proud. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Now out in @DiverseIssues 🔥 Stack Sisters: Building Radical Empathy Convening Spotlighted Black Women Librarians Honored to lift up the memory work & radical empathy of Black women archivists + librarians. Ever-grateful to teach + tell these stories! bit.ly/47ABpLH

"My message is: Serena, you need to show up." Venus Williams wants her sister in attendance for the next round as she advances with her doubles partner Leylah Fernandez at the US Open 😂

@griergxsm She gets it honest!

Dropped my daughter off at daycare and she immediately went in and started playing and didn’t look back at me once. The shambles that I am in currently are unlike any shambles that have shambleth before.

Libraries have always been sanctuaries. Their love has lifted me & powers me through storms. Honored to join the Building Radical Empathy Online Convening, Sept 3–4, 2025 — supported by @US_IMLS. #BRE2025 #RadicalEmpathy 📚