Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City

"Right to the City" is a 2-year seminar bringing together intellectuals, organizers & artists to reflect critically on the city as a site of political struggle.

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

Please join us for another conversation on Baltimore and Black Nationalism with Dayvon Love from "Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle" and Dr. Errol Henderson of Penn State University, this Sunday, October 9th at 3pm at Urban Reads Bookstore! #BlackRadicalTradition #RightToTheCity

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words.

I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

[Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin]

How the media works in Black and white

Louisvile Bank shooter kills 5 in mass shooting is humanized in headline

Homeless and suffering mental health crises is murdered on NYC subway and criminalized in headline

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

Using the model minority myth & (white) women victimhood tropes to justify the lynching of Jordan Neely. What would Grace Lee Boggs say?

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

Homeless people also have a right to the city and do not deserve to die when they express all the ways they have been marginalized and are suffering. #JusticeForJordanNeely

[Cite Black Women. @citeblackwomen]

Congratulations to our collective member Dr. Michaela Machicote on her graduation today!! 🎉✨🎊🎉

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

@Dokta_Caucasity @JennMJacksonPhD Works or words. Try again, dear. Sound it out next time, slowly.

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

@jvromain Wishing you all the best and a successful career serving the people and communities you care about!
-Mica

[janel 🇵🇸 @pband_nelly]

Can we talk about how the professor who called the police on her student for not apologizing to her is identified as Black on this page about the African American Heritage committee in Winston-Salem, which she *chairs*

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

Black students deserve to attend school and be and feel safe and heard.

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

This is absolutely NOT how you conduct a classroom, nor is this ever a situation where police should be called. Antiblackness, especially in HBCUs, has the potential to be deadly. The trauma this "educator" caused is inexcusable.

[jill scott heron🪐 @stillnotziora]

A white professor at Winston Salem State University, an HBCU, had a student arrested this morning for not apologizing to her after she raised her voice in response to the professor raising her voice first.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Inventions that would not exist without Black Women.

—A THREAD—

Valerie Thomas, NASA physicist, invented 3D Movies

In 1977, she began to develop the illusion transmitter, the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light.

[Ron Cassie @ron_cassie]

@AfricanArchives "I was coming from a little two-room schoolhouse on Denmore Avenue, they called it P.S. 157 and it was the only school African-American kids could go to."

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Ed., four Baltimoreans recalled their first days in new schools.
https://t.co/mkFSL6cD28

[Black Radical Tradition & The Right to the City @BRT_RTTC]

@thepolicy3225 @AfricanArchives This comment is disgusting.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

A nervous young girl sits in the front row. She is the only black girl in her class, Tennessee, 1957.

[Cite Black Women. @citeblackwomen]

Just in case people forgot “There has been a total disregard when it comes to recognizing and respecting the intellectual property of Black women. For centuries, people have listened to our ideas and reproduced them without citation.”

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1847, Missouri banned education for black people.

John Berry Meachum went ahead and equipped a steamboat with a library, desks, chairs and opened a 'Floating Freedom School'. 

A THREAD!