Andrew J Douglas
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | in-progress books = du bois and political economy + theories of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer
Off to Puerto Rico and ASA for a panel on Du Bois and imperialism.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Off to Puerto Rico and ASA for a panel on Du Bois and imperialism.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.
Honored to be a part of this symposium tomorrow.
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Honored to be a part of this symposium tomorrow.
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.
www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
“Thoroughfare, public square, pipeline, railway, dockside, airport, border, these will be our places.”
Teaching Clover today. RIP.
Teaching Clover today. RIP.
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Thoroughfare, public square, pipeline, railway, dockside, airport, border, these will be our places.”
Teaching Clover today. RIP.
Teaching Clover today. RIP.
Today I summon the ghost of Du Bois. I too am getting too old for Halloween parties and don't like shopping in Atlanta.💀
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today I summon the ghost of Du Bois. I too am getting too old for Halloween parties and don't like shopping in Atlanta.💀
Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’
Free Mumia!
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Free Mumia!
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October 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’
Free Mumia!
www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Free Mumia!
www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Always remind my students that Herndon’s lawyer was Ben Davis, a Morehouse Man (and “professional revolutionary”). The case radicalized Davis: “I entered the trial as his lawyer, but ended it is as his Communist comrade.”
Davis also defended the Atlanta Six, who were brought up on similar charges.
Davis also defended the Atlanta Six, who were brought up on similar charges.
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Always remind my students that Herndon’s lawyer was Ben Davis, a Morehouse Man (and “professional revolutionary”). The case radicalized Davis: “I entered the trial as his lawyer, but ended it is as his Communist comrade.”
Davis also defended the Atlanta Six, who were brought up on similar charges.
Davis also defended the Atlanta Six, who were brought up on similar charges.
When in 1932, in the throes of Depression, Georgia purged 23,000 families from unemployment rolls and shut down relief stations in Atlanta, Herndon organized a multiracial march on the Fulton Co. courthouse. Relief was restored, but Herndon was punished.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
When in 1932, in the throes of Depression, Georgia purged 23,000 families from unemployment rolls and shut down relief stations in Atlanta, Herndon organized a multiracial march on the Fulton Co. courthouse. Relief was restored, but Herndon was punished.
Looking forward to an event tonight where I get to talk about Angelo Herndon, the Communist organizer who protested the suspension of unemployment relief and was convicted of sedition here in Atlanta in the 1930s.
90 years on, way too many lessons both learned and unlearned.
90 years on, way too many lessons both learned and unlearned.
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Looking forward to an event tonight where I get to talk about Angelo Herndon, the Communist organizer who protested the suspension of unemployment relief and was convicted of sedition here in Atlanta in the 1930s.
90 years on, way too many lessons both learned and unlearned.
90 years on, way too many lessons both learned and unlearned.
Teaching the later Du Bois this week. Including speeches by Du Bois and Robeson given #otd in 1950.
“We, the anti-fascist forces of America – the working masses, the Negro people, the brave Jewish people, the foreign-born progressives… will continue to raise our voices for peace.” -Paul Robeson
“We, the anti-fascist forces of America – the working masses, the Negro people, the brave Jewish people, the foreign-born progressives… will continue to raise our voices for peace.” -Paul Robeson
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Teaching the later Du Bois this week. Including speeches by Du Bois and Robeson given #otd in 1950.
“We, the anti-fascist forces of America – the working masses, the Negro people, the brave Jewish people, the foreign-born progressives… will continue to raise our voices for peace.” -Paul Robeson
“We, the anti-fascist forces of America – the working masses, the Negro people, the brave Jewish people, the foreign-born progressives… will continue to raise our voices for peace.” -Paul Robeson
Off to grade student writing in the age of cloud computing.
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Off to grade student writing in the age of cloud computing.
Managed to keep my sub-3hr marathon streak alive, barely—2:58.10 at Victoria. 26th lifetime marathon, first outside the US. Stunningly beautiful course and city. #Running
Next up: 50-miler in December.
Next up: 50-miler in December.
October 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Managed to keep my sub-3hr marathon streak alive, barely—2:58.10 at Victoria. 26th lifetime marathon, first outside the US. Stunningly beautiful course and city. #Running
Next up: 50-miler in December.
Next up: 50-miler in December.
Josh Myers and Crystal Sanders on the Black liberal arts tradition. Can’t begin to convey how much I needed that conversation.
And loving that photo of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman circa 1978.
And loving that photo of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman circa 1978.
October 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Josh Myers and Crystal Sanders on the Black liberal arts tradition. Can’t begin to convey how much I needed that conversation.
And loving that photo of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman circa 1978.
And loving that photo of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman circa 1978.
“We urge Georgia institutions of higher learning to avoid inviting external law enforcement agencies onto your campuses.”
New statement out to Georgia university presidents. Going on two years of gratuitous campus repression, may we heed the most basic of lessons.
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New statement out to Georgia university presidents. Going on two years of gratuitous campus repression, may we heed the most basic of lessons.
projectsouth.org/wp-content/u...
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“We urge Georgia institutions of higher learning to avoid inviting external law enforcement agencies onto your campuses.”
New statement out to Georgia university presidents. Going on two years of gratuitous campus repression, may we heed the most basic of lessons.
projectsouth.org/wp-content/u...
New statement out to Georgia university presidents. Going on two years of gratuitous campus repression, may we heed the most basic of lessons.
projectsouth.org/wp-content/u...
That’s cool. They sent me an age group medal. Which just means I’m getting old, lol.
September 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
That’s cool. They sent me an age group medal. Which just means I’m getting old, lol.
Well, back to Boston — 22 years after my last run there.
Been a strange running journey. Started in grad school, ran 10 marathons in my 20s, none in my 30s and early 40s, and jumped back into it two years ago — have run 15 marathons since (and a 50k). Happy to be #running.
Been a strange running journey. Started in grad school, ran 10 marathons in my 20s, none in my 30s and early 40s, and jumped back into it two years ago — have run 15 marathons since (and a 50k). Happy to be #running.
September 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Well, back to Boston — 22 years after my last run there.
Been a strange running journey. Started in grad school, ran 10 marathons in my 20s, none in my 30s and early 40s, and jumped back into it two years ago — have run 15 marathons since (and a 50k). Happy to be #running.
Been a strange running journey. Started in grad school, ran 10 marathons in my 20s, none in my 30s and early 40s, and jumped back into it two years ago — have run 15 marathons since (and a 50k). Happy to be #running.
New chapter t-shirts have arrived. On the heels of arguably the worst single week for academic freedom since the @aaup.org’s founding.
There is no future for the university anywhere absent an organized faculty.
There is no future for the university anywhere absent an organized faculty.
September 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New chapter t-shirts have arrived. On the heels of arguably the worst single week for academic freedom since the @aaup.org’s founding.
There is no future for the university anywhere absent an organized faculty.
There is no future for the university anywhere absent an organized faculty.
Came up a half-minute short of a PB at the Sioux Falls Marathon today. Felt good, should’ve pushed harder.
Still, nice course. 3rd sub-3/hr this year. 25th lifetime marathon. 15th state.
Next up: Victoria, BC, Oct 12 #running
Still, nice course. 3rd sub-3/hr this year. 25th lifetime marathon. 15th state.
Next up: Victoria, BC, Oct 12 #running
September 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Came up a half-minute short of a PB at the Sioux Falls Marathon today. Felt good, should’ve pushed harder.
Still, nice course. 3rd sub-3/hr this year. 25th lifetime marathon. 15th state.
Next up: Victoria, BC, Oct 12 #running
Still, nice course. 3rd sub-3/hr this year. 25th lifetime marathon. 15th state.
Next up: Victoria, BC, Oct 12 #running
It’s becoming increasingly hard to imagine the time when one could still imagine. Only about 100 pages in, but very grateful for this reminder, a much-needed timeline cleanse of sorts.
September 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It’s becoming increasingly hard to imagine the time when one could still imagine. Only about 100 pages in, but very grateful for this reminder, a much-needed timeline cleanse of sorts.
“The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it. The dismissals, the blacklists…”
September 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it. The dismissals, the blacklists…”
The AI thinks I can run a 2:41 marathon. Feel like there’s a little Sam Altman in my watch over promising glory, while the reality is I’m just working harder than ever to keep up, lol.
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The AI thinks I can run a 2:41 marathon. Feel like there’s a little Sam Altman in my watch over promising glory, while the reality is I’m just working harder than ever to keep up, lol.
I’ll be showing up to the AAUP chapter meeting next week with “an invitation to join in study.”
Thanks for this @andyhines.bsky.social
Thanks for this @andyhines.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I’ll be showing up to the AAUP chapter meeting next week with “an invitation to join in study.”
Thanks for this @andyhines.bsky.social
Thanks for this @andyhines.bsky.social
My department at Morehouse is hiring. If you study race, law, and American politics and want a tenure-track job at a place that will support your work better than most, please apply.
morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898
morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898
August 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My department at Morehouse is hiring. If you study race, law, and American politics and want a tenure-track job at a place that will support your work better than most, please apply.
morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898
morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898
And there it is. Knew that would happen.
July 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
And there it is. Knew that would happen.
Du Bois at the beach. 😎
July 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Du Bois at the beach. 😎
Ran my first ultramarathon this weekend. The Carolina Reaper 50k in Greenville. Hot, humid, hilly, and delightfully hellish.
Somehow managed to win the men’s division 😳 (third overall behind two badass women).
Guess I’ll run more ultras now.
Somehow managed to win the men’s division 😳 (third overall behind two badass women).
Guess I’ll run more ultras now.
July 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Ran my first ultramarathon this weekend. The Carolina Reaper 50k in Greenville. Hot, humid, hilly, and delightfully hellish.
Somehow managed to win the men’s division 😳 (third overall behind two badass women).
Guess I’ll run more ultras now.
Somehow managed to win the men’s division 😳 (third overall behind two badass women).
Guess I’ll run more ultras now.