LJ Randolph Jr

@marclamonthill As much as I love C and D, based solely on play rotation I’d have to go with A

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No because why are you black in Wisconsin….

@monty_avo Outside 💯

best mariah carey song of all time but you aren’t allowed to say we belong together or obsessed

@GroovyBruce What a great memory! 23 years later, and I’m still trying to “stay groovy” 😎

Solution: be your own marketer. I toured 55 cities for my first book, initially out of my own pocket. Don’t pay someone else. Spend the money on yourself. Just sayin.’

Using marginalized people to recruit other marginalized people & discarding them because they expect diversity, equity, & inclusion to be a real focus in an organization is a form of academic exploitation. Marginalized people are more than optics, checklists, & convenience.

Required reading. My god.

I don’t want to scare yall, but this is basically every US college right now. Across the board. Even the so called liberal states. We are expendable. And that’s the story.

@aagrooms 🥳 🖤

@VictoriaTheTech 🫠

It’s still August, so this is your yearly reminder from me that we are in what is now the 23rd anniversary of Kelly Rowland taking out her Nokia 9210 Communicator and using Microsoft Excel to text Nelly in the "Dilemma" music video!

They once tried to ban bachata for being ‘too Black, too poor’ in the Dominican Republic, until a whitepassing musician made it popular in the 1980s. Now it fills stadiums worldwide 🌎🎶 Iamottob

Policies like this are so unnecessary and only serve to promote broader ideologies rooted in discrimination, racism, colonialism, and xenophobia. Friends, please continue to support multilingualism and stand up against all forms of linguistic oppression in your words & actions🖤

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil. —Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

I miss late-night coffee shops. They used to be so abundant (especially in college towns). Now you might find one or two that are still hanging on.

@UjuAnya I’m so glad this showed up in my timeline. Brought an immediate smile to my face. 😃 Happy birthday to you. What a wonderful time!

So, August 4th was my 49th birthday. My beloved wife and number one dream fulfiller, Sirry Alang, took me to Bangkok and Phuket in Thailand to celebrate. Here’s a thread 🧵🧶🧵of this unforgettable 🇹🇭 journey.

Today at the ABLE Institute: ACTFL's Immediate Past President, LJ Randolph, joined students, DCPS world language educators, DC’s WL Supervisor, and Gregory Jones, retired WL Supervisor from Fairfax County, for a powerful day of language learning in action! @LangConnectsFdn

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07…

@big_business_ It’s like that ice-breaker where people ask “if you could give an unrehearsed lecture on any subject, what would it be?” x.com/big_business_/…

Hunter Biden passionately breaking down the difference between crack vs cocaine felt like Ryan Coogler talking about the film formats he uses to shoot his films.

Para mí, preparar una hora de clase me toma de 4 a 6 horas de trabajo. Una sesión de 3 horas implica 12-16 horas de preparación. Un curso de 15 horas como mínimo tiene 60-90 horas de trabajo detrás.

Sure thing: Rural hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid payments, because most people in rural areas do not have much money, so the uninsured population is higher; also, the population densities are lower, so fewer people to support the hospital. But thanks to Medicaid expansion (the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), those uninsured people were able to get coverage, which allowed rural hospitals to recover costs for care. Otherwise, they just eat the costs. North Carolina lost 11 rural hospitals across the state in the 2010s, because Republicans refused to expand Medicaid. It was (and is) a disaster. If the GOP kills Medicaid expansion now, as the OBBB budget does, a major financial pillar for those hospitals disappears again.

I am now officially Dr. Matt Coss! Words can't really capture my gratitude to everyone, including my #langchat friends, who made this journey possible and so worthwhile. (Dissertation acknowledgements here: bit.ly/3ZKnWfz). On to the next adventure!