Parent. Wife. Professor. Writer. Speaker. Backyard Farmer. Co-host and Co-creator of #SystemCheck
NC. NOLA. Real World.
Joined on 3 January, 2009
This semester @WakeForest , I'm also working with @Mrs_Dixon9 on a graduate, independent study supporting her research. We are reading together on the topic Hip Hop Feminism and Public Health. Syllabus here.
First teaching day @WakeForest. Here's my syllabus for #BlackLivesMatter Use, share, or ignore as you find useful.
Hey @Mrs_Dixon9 -- look what @zoramag published this month, just in time for our class.
DD Adams is at the table. And when you see our check-in with her for #ThePeoplesInauguration you will know why that is something that should make you happy. @wsddadams. #SystemCheck #PeoplesInauguration
For the #PeoplesInauguration, @dorianwarren and I asked @DrJaniceJ what she wanted the new Biden administration to tackle first. Her answer made us shout AMEN! #SystemCheck #PeoplesInauguration
.@dorianwarren and I had the BEST time during our check-in with these young, Black voters. We asked what they want to see next. They didn't hold back. #SystemCheck #PeoplesInauguration
Today @SystemCheckPod is taking part in the #PeoplesInauguration by checking in with some of our favorite thinkers and change makers. Check out @thegennywithag! #SystemCheck #PeoplesInauguration via @YouTube
.@TheAmandaGorman is the America in which I still have faith, for which I still have hope, and for which I remain ready to work and fight.
You taught me. #BlackGirlsAreTheAnswer
All the way through. #BlackGirlsAreTheAnswer
Amanda Gorman. I was fine until Amanda Gorman. Now I a am puddle of tears on the ground. #BlackGirlsAreTheAnswer
"Movements and bases cannot be cliques of people who already know each other." @aliciagarza The Purpose of Power. Review by @KeeangaYamahtta for @NewYorker
Quoted @thrasherxy
“Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world,” King once said.
Wrote this for MLK Day three years ago. It holds up.
"My mind was overcome with fear and keeping me from being effective. I gave myself a time limit to either get myself together or go back the church and resign" Diane Nash: Managing Fear via
"I had to learn that hitting back with my fists one individual was not enough. It takes organization. It takes dedication". Ella Baker: Making the Struggle Every Day
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letter from Birmingham Jail
"The crisis of leadership in the white community is remarkable." ----James Baldwin, On Being White and Other Lies.
Quoted @drcarlhart
Thus, @MHarrisPerry & I will have a grown-up conversation about drug use. Please use the link below to RSVP. @penguinpress
P&P Live! Carl Hart | DRUG USE FOR GROWN-UPS with Melissa Harris-Perry Tickets, Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite
I am so ready for this event tonight. @DrCarlHart, this book is powerful, challenging, necessary. And my college daughter thinks it's hilarious anyone would ask *her* mother to be part of this discussion. See you tonight!
Replying to @jameshperry: Wait... This is in #NOLA...under the Broad overpass? I...I don’t ...ok. We have reached the end of days. https://t.co/Bvou…
Wait... This is in #NOLA...under the Broad overpass? I...I don’t ...ok. We have reached the end of days.
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