Nell Painter

Join Jamelle Bouie, David Blight, and me in Lake Placid, August 5; THE LONG TABLE DINNER: JOHN & MARY BROWN’S DREAM johnbrownlives.org/event/the-long…

@nrookie I just heard about Lois Banner at the Berks. Who else has gone public with such nonsense?

@njlightfoot @KidadaEWilliams Now historians of all sorts hear what we had to put up with routinely. It was exhausting.

Also sending love to Deborah Gray-White today and thinking of the burden she and other BW historians of that generation bore while sitting usually by themselves on nearly all white faculties for decades hearing nonsense like Banner’s remarks. And still doing the work thru it all

@ElieNYC Whether we were in this particular crisis or not, the Court should be expanded

So a White woman historian from the 20th century thinks her career would have been easier if she had been Black! What’s next?: “I’m not a racist!”

The reveal

@clairecmc What a fraud and a scoundrel!

This is important to get out to as many people as possible.

@agordonreed Yours is a great book. Also, Conroe, Texas, is where my parents got married in 1937.

I wrote a chapter about my hometown, Conroe,Texas, in my book, On Juneteenth.

I'll be talking about Sojourner Truth's successful law suit to regain her young son from permanent enslavement in Alabama on Lawrence O'Donnell this evening, 10:40.

MacDowell Board Chair @PainterNell (MF 16, 19, 21) is scheduled to be on @Lawrence O’Donnell tonight, Feb. 2, at 10:40pm ET, to talk about abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth. Nell is the author of the biography SOJOURNER TRUTH: A LIFE, A SYMBOL. Tune in!

Perry Bacon says what I said in my Politico paragraph last month: Opinion | An anti-Black backlash — with no end in sight washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Pro-democracy vigil, Wednesday, January 5: all invited to East Orange City Hall for a photo with the Mayor at 4PM ….There will be signs for you to hold.

@BrentNYT This is criminal.

@AminiParisa Yes. You can see my work on my website: nellpainter.com.

@PainterNell Hi Are you a painter?

My downer of a look back on 2021 100 years from now.

We’re planning a pro-democracy demonstration in my soon-to-be-home of East Orange for January 6. Planning a pro-democracy demonstration sounds like something out of eastern Europe! But we need it now in the USA.

Justice done in the Adirondacks. Lying, gun-brandishing cop who lied about Black people on his (and my) road not getting away with it.timesunion.com/news/article/J…

Join me: I'm raising funds to help The 72nd National Book Awards secure.givelively.org/donate/nationa…

The 2021 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction newyorker.com/books/page-tur…