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4 Feb, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Introducing the #BlackRenaissance. I partnered with @TIME on this special project to celebrate the beauty and power of the Black creativity, of Black art, in this time. 1/5
time.com/collection/ren…
@MichelleObama has a resplendent interview w/ the phenomenal @TheAmandaGorman who's featured on the cover. Gorman tells the former First Lady: “We’re living in an important moment in Black art because we’re living in an important moment in Black life.” 2/5
time.com/collection/ren…
From my introductory essay to the project @TIME: “The Black Renaissance is stirring Black people to be themselves. Totally. Unapologetically. Freely.” 3/5

time.com/collection/ren…
A panel of judges selected the 25 defining creations of the Black Renaissance. The panel included @Ava, @MatthewACherry, @FKAtwigs, dream hampton, @THEKIDMERO, @deusnice, @Lynnbrooklyn, @TessaThompson and @Jesmimi. 4/5

time.com/collection/ren…
A trio of great novelists—@britrbennet and @thebestjasmine and @JackieWoodson discussed the importance of fiction. And the project includes pieces on Black music, Hollywood, and an essay by @chad_sand with some striking art. 5/5

The Renaissance is Black.

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2 Feb
In 2018, as the symbolic 400th birthday of Black America approached in 2019, I reflected on a way to commemorate this historic occasion. I had finished treatment for metastatic cancer. Though my emotional and physical wounds hadn’t healed, I had a new lease on life. 1/10
An idea for a new type of history dawned on me, and I’ll never forget sharing the idea with @agent_ayesha --and later with @OneWorldLit editor, @cjaxone, in his office after discussing the final edits on #HowToBeAnAntiracist. 2/10
Why not a community write a history of a community? 3/10
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30 Jan
The White supremacists who attacked the Capitol on 1/6 claimed they were defending America from the coming destruction of an antiracist politics. This fearmongering piece argues antiracist demands at schools “would destroy the institutions themselves.” 1/9
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White supremacist violence is tacitly being fomented by pieces like this one. McWhorter urged people to “resist destructive demands” and press “for the very survival of the institution,” and praised a professor who said the demands would lead to a “’civil war on campus.’” 2/9
And, as usual when writing on antiracism, McWhorter is arguing against himself. He misrepresented the position of campus activists and argued against his own misrepresentations. 3/9
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19 Jan
I finished reading the 1776 Commission Report. It claims America is “the most just and glorious country in all of human history”--the nation's great founding truth. But anti-Americans are disregarding this great patriotic truth, the report argues. 1/11
nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/…
But it does not take long to read this report as the last great lie from a Trump administration of great lies. 2/11

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This report makes it seems as if slaveholding founding fathers were abolitionists; that Americans were the early beacon of the global abolitionist movement; that the demise of slavery in the United States was inevitable;

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9 Jan
In a week of double standards, adding another. Republicans opposing Trump’s impeachment because it'll “further enrage Mr. Trump supporters,” to quote @WSJ, hardly ever oppose letting violent cops off the hook because it'll further enrage Black people. 1/5
wsj.com/articles/donal…
Every time a police officer murders a Black person, it further enrages Black people and divides the American people. Every time a violent police officer is not convicted for murdering a Black person, it further enrages Black people and divides the American people. 2/5
Opposing Trump’s impeachment, a @WSJ editorial states: “It would further enrage Mr. Trump’s supporters in a way that won’t help Mr. Biden govern, much less heal partisan divisions. It would pour political fuel on Wednesday’s dying embers.” 3/5
wsj.com/articles/donal…
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15 Dec 20
I’m proud to announce that the Center for Antiracist Research and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences are launching the Racial Data Lab @BU_Tweets. Thank you @Bestavros for your partnership. Excited about the work ahead @BU_CDS & @AntiracismCtr. 1/10
bu.edu/articles/2020/…
We plan to assemble a large multidisciplinary team of faculty, from BU and other institutions, along w/ students and experts from several fields, including data science, software engineering, web development, data journalism, and visualization. So look out for listings soon! 2/10
I can still remember meeting @Bestavros in a conference room in the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground in February. The picturesque room overlooked the Charles River, and we had no idea COVID was coming. 3/10
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11 Nov 20
“We the people of the United States do not have a single national soul, but rather two souls, warring with each other. The battle for the soul of America is actually the battle between the souls of America.”

My latest @TheAtlantic. 1/5

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“Humans lie about themselves, like they lie about their nations. Humans and nations hide behind the cloak of ideals and intentions. But the outcome of what humans do and what nations do is never a lie.” 2/5
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“Nations—like institutions and individuals—are not inherently anything. They are what they do. What they do is what they breathe. And what they breathe is their soul.” 3/5
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