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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
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Dhruv Gupta @dhruv0811.bsky.social MS in NLP (MIIS) @ LTI, CMU
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Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com Historian of slavery, the Black South and the Caribbean | Using art, music & archives to teach and tell Black stories | Assoc Prof | Writer Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social Chair and Professor, Brown University, Africana Studies. Author of Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, available 3/18/25 and A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Writer, Author. 👑📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25)
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
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The Boston Globe.
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Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.