Aaron Ross Coleman

Founder of @frdmstudies Substack! I cover abolition democracy and emancipatory economics. Published in NYT, GQ, The Nation, etc.
Email— [email protected]

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Subscribe to @frdmstudies my new substack if you are sick of “progressive” newsrooms that exploit contractors and social justice publications too afraid to write about race in the age of Trump 2.0
https://t.co/Qhxkqnq1tj

[Freedom Studies @frdmstudies]

New essay out today - Are BBLs dystopian? https://t.co/pnrWzoM7uf

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

My latest!! It explores capitalism, fascism, and BBL’s, don’t miss it!

[Freedom Studies @frdmstudies]

New essay out today - Are BBLs dystopian? https://t.co/pnrWzoM7uf

[DeAsia Paige @deasia_paige]

"Hip-hop’s fusion between emblems and emcees—between Guccis and Gucci Manes—is now so complete that it is difficult to tell where the brands end and the artists begin."

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

If you have enjoyed my writing over the years, please give this piece a read! I worked really hard on it! It's my first big Substack essay for my new @frdmstudies publication!
https://t.co/yvJ3GlKv4X

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

If you have enjoyed my writing over the years, please give this piece a read! I worked really hard on it! It's my first big Substack essay for my new @frdmstudies publication!
https://t.co/yvJ3GlKv4X

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

One love to one of my Black Studies mentors– a scholar who was more like my family– Robert Allen. I’m truly thankful for the time I with him.

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

High Flying Bird is a pro-worker masterpiece. This film follows NBA union leaders and agents pushing players to imagine a league without owners—to imagine themselves as emancipated workers. The movie envisions a multi-billion dollar union-cooperative helmed by Black workers.

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

I wonder what happened to all those newsrooms that cared so much about racial equity in 2020? 🤔Millions of Black folks in the US yet all the coverage has disappeared! Subscribe to @frdmstudies if you're fed-up with fair-weather social justice outlets https://t.co/gA8vWkATw6

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Tyler Perry’s "Straw" and Issa Rae’s "One of Them Days" both develop plots around the eviction of Black women at the hands of Black landlords. These films remind us that Black capitalism is Black-on-Black crime.

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Pootie Tang will teach you more about capitalism than graduate-level economics courses at NYU. I've studied both! Pootie Tang reveals capitalists as monopolized syndicates shilling cigarettes, malt liquor, black face, rat poison, switchblades, and children’s “pork-chunk cereal”😂

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Black Labor Posters ✊🏾

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Black Labor Posters ✊🏾

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

It is a tragic paradox that so many “left” newsrooms are anti-labor, extremely segregated firms feasting on contractors paid far below minimum wage. Join me on substack @frdmstudies, let's end this pyramid scheme together. https://t.co/gA8vWkATw6

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Black Labor Posters ✊🏾

[Danielle Amir Jackson @danielleamir]

@daveweigel im perplexed by the so called liberals and progressives who believe the civil rights movement had nothing to do with them.

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For @prismreports, I wrote about prison telecom companies donating to nonprofits, particularly but not exclusively, charities focused on at-risk youth and communities impacted by incarceration. Thread🧵

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Black Labor Posters ✊🏾

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Black Labor Posters ✊🏾

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

If you are fed up with “progressive” newsrooms that thrive un-unionized, contract labor, subscribe to my new substack @frdmstudies and support worker-owned media! ✊🏾📰https://t.co/gA8vWkATw6

[Aaron Ross Coleman @arcwrites]

Black folks haven’t just critiqued space travel; we’ve longed for it, too. It is not just that Gil Scott-Heron wrote the protest poem “Whitey on the Moon,” but that Stevie Wonder wrote the space ballad “Saturn” where he sang of gorgeous “rainbows, moonbeams and orange snow”.