Shahana Hanif @shahanafrombk.bsky.social Brooklyn elected official getting things done. Working Families Party endorsed.
Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social Prof., Harvard Kennedy School
V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School
18th NAACP president & CEO
Attorney & 4th Generation Minister
For speaking: http://unitedtalent- S SlaveCodes.org @slavecodes.org SlaveCodes.org publishes slave codes from the days of chattel slavery across the Americas. The codes are translated in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Jim Crow Laws @jimcrowlaws.org See @slavecodes.org for now. This project will occur at some point in the far future from now.
Chi Ossé @chiosse.bsky.social @nyccouncil Member for Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights (CD 36) @CMChiOsse | Personal Account
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Layla Azmi Goushey @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social Prof. English. MFA Fiction. M.A. History. PhD Teaching/Learning. Sci-Fi/Fntsy, Arab American. Secular Humanist. Palestine 🇵🇸. Cats #UAPsky / #UFOsky 👀.
Beverly Daniel Tatum @bdtauthor.bsky.social NYT best-selling author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race; President Emerita of Spelman College; Committed to the ABCs: affirming identity, building community, and cultivating leadership
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
ibramxkendi.com
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social NYC-based, Oakland-bred professor at Columbia U. Write books and articles about blackness, gentrification, aesthetics, architecture, capital(ism), and other things.
branditsummers.com
Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social National Director: @workingfamilies.org | Co-Founder: Blackbird | Board: Brooklyn Movement Center, Center for Popular Democracy Action, United for Respect | Always: Movement for Black Lives | Text MOE to 30403. he/him
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor
Political Science Department @ Brown University
Teaches Political Theory
Book: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (PUP) 
Elizabeth Hinton @elizabethkai.bsky.social Historian of U.S. Inequality, Author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law @Yale
Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.” The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿History is the only education; everything else is just training.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Alexandria C. Robers, PhD, BCBA, NCSP @acrobers.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin 🧀 | School Psychology 🧠 | Applied Behavior Analysis 📈 | Advocate for Equity and Belongingness ✊🏾 | views my own.
Michael Jones-Correa @mjonescorrea.bsky.social Political scientist at UPenn: immigrants and politics, cities, and other things.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Chandler James @chandlerjames.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. I study the U.S. presidency and public opinion. www.chandlerjames.org
Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame
co-editor of Sociology of Education | co-I of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
mamax2 | Michigander | former PS teacher |
scholar of education, inequality, mass incarceration, and race
Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social Georgia girl• UNC-CH associate professor of sociology • alum of Mercer, UGA, & Duke • hopeful for a better tomorrow
Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social Poverty and US social welfare policy, hovering awkwardly between the fields of political science and social work.
Host, New Books in Public Policy: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/aba1b96c-5ec5-4ab6-940e-08f426f74a37
Juliet Hooker @juliethooker.bsky.social Professor. Feminist. Books: Black Grief/White Grievance: the Politics of Loss | Theorizing Race in the Americas: Sarmiento, Douglass, Du Bois & Vasconcelos | Race and the Politics of Solidarity.
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the novella FES IS A MIRROR. She/her
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
Alexandria Davis, Ph.D. @alexandriajdavis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at VCU | she/her | Political behavior, elections, REP, intersectionality
http://alexandria-davis.com
Sierra Carter, PhD @drscarter.bsky.social Associate Professor, Director of the Health Equity, Agency, Racism & Trauma (HEART) Lab
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Danielle Pilar Clealand @profdanielle.bsky.social Black Caribbean scholar @ UT Austin
Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean @kbdphd.bsky.social Dreamer. Builder. Storyteller.
Professor & Executive Director, Wesleyan University
Host, DISRUPTED for Connecticut Public Radio
Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Deirdre Cooper Owens @d-squared.bsky.social Human. I love cats, brilliant 🥷🏾, and thinking out loud. Not in this particular order. 
Robert Greene II @robgreeneii.bsky.social Claflin University Associate Professor of History; AAIHS President; Co-Host *Our New South* podcast; Modjeska Simkins School Lead Instructor; historian, writer, Star Trek fan
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com
Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social Historian (Avengers of the New World/ The Banjo/ The Language of the Game/ Freedom Roots) & Musician (Traversées)
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social ⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. The Red Nation. Red Media.⚡️ 
Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social A pluviophile, melomaniac, gardener, karaoke fiend, & academic. Atlantan by labor; New Yorker by birth.
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social We use the power of storytelling to inform the public about the realities and impacts of inequality and imbalance of power in America. Co-founded by @RBreich.bsky.social
Linktree: www.linktr.ee/inequalitymediacivicaction | Website: www.imcivicaction.org
Dr. Saudi Garcia @drsaudi.bsky.social Ex-academic comrade now organizing in leftist, pro-Democracy resistance spaces. Internationalist lover of books 📚 🇩🇴 🖤 🇭🇹
Views my own.
Vinnie Roscigno @roscigno.bsky.social Sociologist of inequality, education, mobility, work, and first generation status at The Ohio State University. Bronx born and First-Gen proud.
https://u.osu.edu/roscigno.1/
Dr. Jioni Lewis @jionilewis.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Maryland. Past President of Psychology of Black Women. Study Black feminism, Intersectionality, racism, sexism, gendered racism, Black women’s health, and radical healing.
Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
deray @deray.bsky.social 
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social Data Scientist. Mapping Police Violence.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Ai-jen Poo @aijenpoo.bsky.social ❤️ National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across Generations, Care in Action, Supermajority. Opinions entirely my own. #CareCantWait
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social Prez & CEO @civilrightsorg. Cat Mom. Former @msnbc. Ran 4 Mayor of NYC; IG @Maya4CivilRights Views & typos are mine. She/Her
Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social President: Color Of Change
Host, Wide Awake America
Join me here: www.WideAwakeAmerica.org
GOLDIE. @goldietaylor.bsky.social 
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social Proud papa. Perpetually pissed.
#BlueWave2026, #Feminist.
Author of The Bigliest Loser and The Liddle'est President.
Check out my AMAZING Substack here: https://linktr.ee/mmpadellan
👉Sr. Advisor, @reallyamerican.bsky.social👈👀
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
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Chris Emdin @chrisemdin.bsky.social Professor/Writer/Thinker/Change Maker
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social First Black Congressman for NY16 2020-2024. Life long educator. Fighting for jobs and education not bombs and incarceration. Author. Unlocking our unlimited potential.
Builttowin.org
Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social Yes, that one. PhD-I study Black Women @ work, health/HIV, & class via EDU | 1stGen | Solo | Childfree by choice | 🌱 based | CiteASista & SisterPhD | 🩷💚 | 5’11 | 1 of 1 | LLM HATER
📬💻📧: https://linktr.ee/drbritwilliams
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Roland S. Martin @rolandsmartin.bsky.social 
Walter M. Kimbrough @hiphopprez.bsky.social HBCU president inspired by Benjamin Elijah Mays. Disturbed about man, willing to say so.
Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader.
Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/