Ashley D. Farmer

📣 Upcoming Teach-In: "Forging Black Sovereignty: Queen Mother Audley Moore's Uncompromising Commitment to Black Nation Building" by Dr. Ashley D. Farmer. Wednesday, August 13 6:30 PM EST More info and Register: bit.ly/AudleyMoore

Gerald Horne interviews @EugenePuryear on Harry Haywood, Lenin, Cyril Briggs, Sen Katayama, M. N. Roy, the Scottsboro Boys, and the Black Belt Thesis for KPFK Los Angeles. Forthcoming in the next few weeks. A truly fantastic interview. Stay tuned!

Today would’ve been Queen Mother Audley Moore’s birthday. I’ve teamed up with Black Women Radicals to give away two copies of my forthcoming biography. Head over to the photo app to enter.

#OnThisDay in 1964, Unita Blackwell became the Issaquena County delegate for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which fought to replace Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. “We had no idea that we were changing the whole…

Queen Mother Moore didn’t ask for reform she demanded return. Reparations, repatriation, and self-determination weren’t slogans for her, they were her strategy. This Teach-In is essential study for anyone serious about Black sovereignty. Thanks for this! #ReparationsNOW

- y’all have got to know that I’m grinning from ear to ear! favorite show of all time.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people cnn.com/2025/07/22/tec…

#OnThisDay in 1963, when a National Guardsman poked his bayonet at Gloria Richardson in Cambridge, Maryland, she pushed it away, refusing to back down during protests against racism and inequality. The image of Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee,…

BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says 73 people have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza. apnews.com/article/israel…

Records show that Maryland officials have known about the existence of this lost cemetery since at least the 1970s. Yet the graves of more than 100 Black children remain abandoned, mostly unmarked and deteriorating in an overgrown forest. Read here: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

In a late night vote, the House approved Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid huffpost.com/entry/us-congr…

BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP. apnews.com/article/immigr…

A couple of months ago, I was asked to write an essay about Edwardian Era Black corsetieres and seamstresses for a production of the play Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage happening at London's Donmar Warehouse Theater. I'm delighted to share that essay in full with you here. 🪡🧵

You can still donate to your local PBS Station and the PBS Foundation, they need our funding more than ever now. pbs.org/about/about-pb…

happy revolutionary birthday to these doyens!

Also, please join us in the next two weeks for exciting webinars about the brand-new journal, Global Black Thought! Register via the link below, and take a look at the panels we shall have @BlkPerspectives @AAIHS #twitterstorians: eventbrite.com/e/global-black…

#OTD in 1862, journalist & civil rights activist Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, MS. Wells spent her life exposing the evils of lynching and organizing for racial justice causes. #ANationsStory #APeoplesJourney

Critics call Zohran Mamdani’s call for a rent freeze: “wild” “extreme” “unrealistic”and “pie in the sky.” I was on the board that votes on these rent freezes. They’re a lifeline to New Yorkers—there’s a larger agenda behind these criticisms. My latest in @guardian.