Do you know the name of the Title IX coordinator at your child's school? Most of us never needed to. That's changing. New #TeachTheBabies pod & Substack: where Title IX came from, what's being done to it right now, and what to do this week. drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p…

Black people have always written it down and made it plain. The Black Papers continues that work. Pre-order: routledge.com/The-Black-Pape…

"Intersectional organizing isn't optional—it's essential." Thank you, Kenya Hutton, for endorsing The Black Papers. Pre-orders open October 9. routledge.com/The-Black-Pape… #WeWroteItDown #BlackPapers

For generations, this country demanded our papers. This fall, we publish our own. The Black Papers, from Routledge, 26 chapters from 100+ contributors. It opens with democracy, on purpose. Preorders open Oct 9. I wrote about it: drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p…

Define the word straight, in this context.

A federal official warns USPS is rushing an untested system, one that can delay ballots by the thousands. A judge called it likely illegal. Mail voting starts this week. Confirm your registration: vote.org With Joy Reid and Ari Berman: youtube.com/live/EPB7MgDjwHo…

This is for the whites and the gays: Halloween is two months out, and the wig, the lipstick and the breastplate stay in the bag this year unless your politics align with Dolly Rebecca Parton’s. She said of course Black lives matter. She meant it. You’ve been warned, beloved.

Nostalgia is a trap. The old ways didn’t break—they never worked. Phil Agnew on why your granddaddy wasn’t happy, and why we build new ways of being instead of trying to go back. 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #TeachTheBabies #PhilAgnew

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Yes. I also know they fueled the current administration’s occupation.

Rapid-fire round with Dr. Bianca Baldridge: Teachers College or Harvard? The research or the writing? Freedom dreaming or policy change? Her picks stay in the episode. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/27b…
📝 substack.com/@drdavidjjohns/… #TeachTheBabies #ThisOrThat

Whose the “them” here? And for what crime?

2.53M youth workers in the U.S. Young people spend only ~18% of their waking hours in school. Still no national youth policy. Dr. @biancajontae on the people who show up for our babies. New on Teach the Babies Pod out now open.substack.com/pub/drdavi… #LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies

America is 250. The truth is older. Built on stolen land, by stolen people—and it still hasn't paid for either. Fireworks don't settle that debt. Fannie Lou Hamer asked in 1964: is this America? We're still answering. open.substack.com/pub/drdavi… #LetsALLGetFree

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Introduce a bill. Wait. Build support. Wait again. Ask for a hearing. Wait again. That sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting since 1989. Dreisen Heath said no. So did we. #HR40 #TeachTheBabies

We want the whole menu. Not the appetizer. Not just the main course. Dreisen Heath on why this Freedom Summer, we put the full reparative justice agenda on the table at once—and why sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting 36 years. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1Kx… #HR40

We want the whole menu. Not the appetizer. H.R.40 has waited 36 years. This Freedom Summer, NBJC + Dreisen Heath stood on the House Triangle to say: no more sequencing. New ep of Teach the Babies is live 🎙️ Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavi… #LetsALLGetFree

"One of the tactics of authoritarianism is making us feel like we are by ourselves. It is loneliness. It is solitude. It is separation from our people." -Tiffany Loftin. #TeachTheBabies Pod 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0Qb… #TeachTheBabies #FreedomSummer