I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at University of Notre Dame. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

This article will shock you. Even if you’re a media scholar. Even if you know every propaganda trick. Assal Rad shows how the most influential Western news outlets have systematically manipulated language to whitewash Israel’s genocide. A grim indictment. thenation.com/article/world/…

Friends! As promised, the pre-order link for my book is now available: amazon.com/Inherited-Ineq…

I wrote this for Hammer & Hope. Check it out, along with several other important pieces reflecting on Black politics in this moment, at hammerandhope.org

🥳 I am so thrilled! Thanks to the best department for all their support!

Nothing to see here, just the largest human rights org in the world shouting about ISRAEL’S LIVE-STREAMED GENOCIDE. I guess it’s no big deal, which is why the media is completely ignoring it.

COMBEE wins the 2025 #PulitzerPrize in History! I cherish this distinction for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. Harriet Tubman, the Combahee freedom seekers, and their legacy deserve nothing less. Oxford Academic

“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.” ~ Aaron Bushnell

After years of work, my book, Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance, is finally available. I hope you read it. I hope it makes you think. I hope it breaks your heart. press.jhu.edu/books/title/53…

📚 Study what Robin DG Kelley calls “the most important history book ever written, period!” Our full 12-week course on Black Reconstruction is now available on Spotify & other streaming platforms. Grab a friend, dig in & tune in now! open.spotify.com/show/2DyIQHknP… 📻

So excited for this piece to finally be in the 🌍!!! Truly a labor of love, and a tribute to Black Sociology and the brilliance of Tuskegee Institute’s anti-lynching activism and sociological interventions. 📝 is open access—enjoy! 🙏🏽✊🏽

Coming February 2026 from University of California Press. A theory-driven case study of frontline labor at one of the largest public benefits bureaucracies in the nation: the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services. More details soon.

🚨NEW PUB🚨 In this article, my friend-colleagues and I suggest that rather than thinking about police contact as direct officer-civilian interactions (temporally constrained), we might view and measure it as PERPETUAL (1/4)

How is this not a headline in any Western outlet?

My latest in the Guardian where I argue that ⁦⁦⁦Zohran Kwame Mamdani⁩ position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) WFRN is seeking applicants for its 2026-2027 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. I am part of their 24-25 cohort and benefit from it since day 1!  The deadline is October 1, 2025. wfrn.org/early-career-f… link is here!

Life update…I’m proud to share that afeef (He/Him) and I have won a Global Reporting Grant from the Pulitzer Center, to do a series of investigative features for The Intercept about how the Trump health budget cuts are affecting LGBTQ ppl & HIV/AIDS around the world

"Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts." – Andrea Gibson Rest in Peace