When schools wouldn’t desegregate, the Office for Civil Rights made them. When they ignored sexual harassment, OCR made them look. When they shut doors to students w/ disabilities, OCR opened them. Trump just closed OCR’s regional offices. /x apnews.com/article/educat…

Ohio Republicans Are Ready to Wreck the Economy Over DEI newrepublic.com/article/192485… via The New Republic

Evidence from over 25,000 prices shows that monopoly power blunted consumer preferences for discrimination, and Black consumers paid higher prices in the non-discriminatory market, from Maggie Jones, Dr. Trevon D Logan, David Rosé, and Dr. Lisa D. Cook nber.org/papers/w33547

Black people been KNOWN this - that’s why the narratives about Black people voting for Trump/GOP in any significant way was always complete BS. And anyone paying attention knows this is how many “undecided” white voters think…which is why they were never swinging toward Harris.

The median “white” American household… The typical white household has 9.2x as much wealth as the typical Black household & that number skyrockets to 20.5x as much when comparing low-income households (41% of Black adults live in low-income households vs 24% of white adults).

As I noted to NBC News, the boycott of specific retailers is bigger than DEI. nbcnews.com/specials/anti-…

This ONLY works if you convince Black people they won’t be left out/behind. New Deal programs failed to promote civil rights as FDR consistently bowed to discrimination; to pass legislation, FDR needed southern Dems. Black people see the same risks today & just aren’t buying in.

This is where we are now. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Tim Miller: "There was a covert CIA operative named in the thread, right?" Jeffrey Goldberg: "Yes, and I withheld her name... I didn't put it in the story because she's under cover. But, I mean, the CIA Director put it into the chat."

As the Trump Admin becomes more authoritarian by the day it’s important not to let our media bubbles create a false narrative around Trump’s second term that people are simply “complying in advance” when there’s far more resistance now than in 2017 after Trump won the first time.

Black economic progress has always faced a violent backlash. Long before Affirmative Action and DEI became buzzwords, Black people who managed to do achieve any small degree of economic advancement lived in fear.

Tune in in one week (Friday 4/4/25) to the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group Meeting! We have an exciting conference taking shape! nber.org/conferences/ra…

Something to think about: the first Black people in the this country with equal rights under the law are still less than 60 years old. Equal rights for Black people is still a relatively new reality for America…

From Gary Chambers: "Let this be a message to the Democratic Party: Louisiana is not a red state — it’s an underfunded state. When the resources are balanced and the people are empowered, we get the kind of results we saw tonight. The new blue wall is in the Deep South."

Come join us via YouTube on Friday (4/4/25) to the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group Meeting! We have an exciting conference taking shape! nber.org/conferences/ra…

No April Fools here! Tune in on Friday (4/4/25) to the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group Meeting! nber.org/conferences/ra…

Starting in a few minutes!! Tune in now to the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group Meeting! nber.org/conferences/ra…

Just in time for #Juneteenth my new article “Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty” is now out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…