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Nikki Jones
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Writer. Teacher. Queer Black Momma.

Next book: Brutal & Routine, on the enduring legacy of racist policing and the promise of abolitionist dreams
Submitted a draft of the final book chapter today! 🎉🎉🎉

I have a summer of revision ahead of me and a great team alongside me.

Right on time.
June 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Remember defund? This administration is showing that defunding is 100% possible - healthcare, education, safety net — and they are doing it in the most brutal way possible.

And why did people want to dismantle ICE? To prevent exactly what we are seeing today.

It’s all connected, always.
April 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Good morning.
Listen, you have to just decide.

They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.

Resolve it in your spirit.
March 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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If you are a Northern California person upset about Chuck Schumer’s @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, his book tour will be in Corte Madera at The Book Passage on 3/22

Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼
March 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
We did it! Thanks for standing with us. We appreciate all the acts of support and you know we will need our community even more in the days ahead.

#WeWillNotBeSilenced #BlackStudies
March 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Now is the time to stand WITH Black Studies!

#BlackStudiesMatters #WeWillNotBeSilenced
#BlackStudies

We are $870 away from a $10,000 match. We’ve been on campus for 50 years and you know we’ll need to fight for the next 50. $2,$20 or $2500. 2 hrs left! 🙏🏽✊🏽

givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...
Big Give 2025
Be the Light this Big Give, March 13, 2025
givingday.berkeley.edu
March 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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We’ve been on campus for 50 years, let’s make sure we’re here for at least 50 more!

#WeWillNotBeSilenced #BlackStudies #StillHere
March 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I need you to stand WITH Black Studies!

UC Berkeley's annual day of giving runs from 9:00 pm PDT on March 12th to 9:00 pm PDT on March 13th. 

Your impact will be doubled up to $10,000 w/a generous matching gift from Jeanne and Mike Williams ‘82!

Give now: givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...
givingday.berkeley.edu
March 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine

Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s a beautiful night to support Black Studies!

#BlackStudiesWillNotBeSilenced

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African American Studies, UCB | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
African American & Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley, est. 1970.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Beginning my morning with a lecture on structural racism. (I’m the one giving the lecture.)

#It’sNotAboutDEI

#BlackStudies

#WeWillNotBeSilenced
February 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
February 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Job in Palestine Studies! UC Davis seeks to hire an Anthropologist of Palestine at assistant/associate professor rank, Seeking a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda and interest in collaboration. Review begins March 5.

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996
Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology - Sociocultural
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
February 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Black Studies will not be silenced. Read this petition. Know what we are about. Stand with us.

#BlackStudies

chng.it/R76D9tqYnP
Have you seen this petition yet?
Black Studies Will Not Be Silenced
chng.it
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Do people get that nobody even uses the term “woke” anymore? That if you are using it then you are doing exactly the kind of work the far-right architect of the “anti-woke” campaign wants you to do? “Wokeness” is a distraction. Racism is, in fact, bad. It’s okay to say so.

People get that, right?
February 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Tomorrow’s lecture: “Confronting the Violence of White Supremacy.”

Readings by Ida B. Wells, Oliver Cromwell Cox and The California Reparations Report.

This should be fine, right?
February 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
1290. Progress.
January 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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How do you want to use your law degree? If you want to fight mass incarceration, fight racism, fight poverty, fight for liberation, fight for your communities – Then Join Us! Apply by 12/9 #Defender #EndMassIncarceration acgov.org/hrs
November 29, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I finished a draft of a chapter today - yay! This means that I’m technically just over halfway to a full draft. Progress!

Oh, the book is on the enduring legacy of racist policing and the promise of abolitionist dreams. I’m sure some people still care about all of this, yes?
November 19, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 7:50 PM