Marcus Board Jr.
@profmbj.bsky.social
@Howard U. Author Invisible Weapons. He/they. Vintage clothing. Your fav’s fave. Revolution everyday.
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“We have whistles, they had guns” should wake you up. We have to do something different & there’s a <long> way between whistles and guns.
Part 1 of a series helping us be less overwhelmed by bad news!
Shout out Southside Together for your inspirational vision for change 💪🏽
Part 1 of a series helping us be less overwhelmed by bad news!
Shout out Southside Together for your inspirational vision for change 💪🏽
Pt. 1 - “They Have Guns”: What is Sabotage or How We Fight Back
This piece is the first in this series about how to navigate information overload and not hurt ourselves.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 PM
“We have whistles, they had guns” should wake you up. We have to do something different & there’s a <long> way between whistles and guns.
Part 1 of a series helping us be less overwhelmed by bad news!
Shout out Southside Together for your inspirational vision for change 💪🏽
Part 1 of a series helping us be less overwhelmed by bad news!
Shout out Southside Together for your inspirational vision for change 💪🏽
No more allies and collaborators. You either conspire with us or you're the problem.
Douglass asked what to the American slave is your 4th of July. I want to know what to the historically oppressed is your democracy? But we'll continue to capture the people who WOULD be on our side with an invite.
Douglass asked what to the American slave is your 4th of July. I want to know what to the historically oppressed is your democracy? But we'll continue to capture the people who WOULD be on our side with an invite.
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
No more allies and collaborators. You either conspire with us or you're the problem.
Douglass asked what to the American slave is your 4th of July. I want to know what to the historically oppressed is your democracy? But we'll continue to capture the people who WOULD be on our side with an invite.
Douglass asked what to the American slave is your 4th of July. I want to know what to the historically oppressed is your democracy? But we'll continue to capture the people who WOULD be on our side with an invite.
Thurgood Marshall meets Pauli Murray. Black history has more connected waves than the ocean, and it's much deeper.
Learning something new is great, but doing something new is better. Live Black history and join us in the work of reconnecting our people in this lifetime.
Learning something new is great, but doing something new is better. Live Black history and join us in the work of reconnecting our people in this lifetime.
February 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Thurgood Marshall meets Pauli Murray. Black history has more connected waves than the ocean, and it's much deeper.
Learning something new is great, but doing something new is better. Live Black history and join us in the work of reconnecting our people in this lifetime.
Learning something new is great, but doing something new is better. Live Black history and join us in the work of reconnecting our people in this lifetime.
New series about how we can stop abusing ourselves *and* stay informed + connected.
Information Overload = Pain & Avoidance: A Series on Building Communities that Can Heal and Move On
I worked as an assistant in grad school to a brilliant prof and friend who became family.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
New series about how we can stop abusing ourselves *and* stay informed + connected.
There’s a way to do this. Your no good son and always a jerk childhood best friend have to get right to get in.
Bringing Shame, Disowning, & Pariahs Back
I saw a post saying ICE agents didn’t want to be unmasked because they didn’t want to face ridicule for the rest of their lives.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
There’s a way to do this. Your no good son and always a jerk childhood best friend have to get right to get in.
Everybody want the snow cleared but hate the kids who do it. Make it make sense
February 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Everybody want the snow cleared but hate the kids who do it. Make it make sense
Sometimes family tells us there’s not enough.
Community shows us that together we always have enough.
Community shows us that together we always have enough.
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Sometimes family tells us there’s not enough.
Community shows us that together we always have enough.
Community shows us that together we always have enough.
Pamphlets, Flyers, Shared Accounts - How else can we build our community network?
Bc the social networks are fully compromised.
Bc the social networks are fully compromised.
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Pamphlets, Flyers, Shared Accounts - How else can we build our community network?
Bc the social networks are fully compromised.
Bc the social networks are fully compromised.
We won’t all be in the streets but that’s why it’s important to know the difference between Community and Political Organizing.
January 30, 2026 at 5:43 PM
We won’t all be in the streets but that’s why it’s important to know the difference between Community and Political Organizing.
🙄 E7 stranger things. This is so. Dumb. I woulda been like “YOU LOSING ME WEIRDO!”
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🙄 E7 stranger things. This is so. Dumb. I woulda been like “YOU LOSING ME WEIRDO!”
Judge Reggie Walton and I engage in a powerful fireside chat exploring the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Special thanks to WHUT-TV and Angie Ange for all the amazing and award winning work you’re putting together! Much more to come and today’s my 40th!
Justice & Legacy: A Fireside Chat on Thurgood Marshall’s Enduring Impact
YouTube video by WHUT TV
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Judge Reggie Walton and I engage in a powerful fireside chat exploring the legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Special thanks to WHUT-TV and Angie Ange for all the amazing and award winning work you’re putting together! Much more to come and today’s my 40th!
Moments from our event @ Roxbury Community College. Thanks to Global Citizens Circle, colleagues and friends Nikishka Iyengar w/The Guild & Jon Alexander, all Fellows at the Harvard Ash Center, in a conversation about leading democracy forward.
Full talk on GCC YouTube
Full talk on GCC YouTube
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Moments from our event @ Roxbury Community College. Thanks to Global Citizens Circle, colleagues and friends Nikishka Iyengar w/The Guild & Jon Alexander, all Fellows at the Harvard Ash Center, in a conversation about leading democracy forward.
Full talk on GCC YouTube
Full talk on GCC YouTube
Talking with Howard University Students about legacy and impact, from Thurgood and Brown v Board to Pauli Murray, HU Law, and the amazing history incl. Black women and queer genius at this amazing institution. Check out Becoming Thurgood and definitely get into Pauli Murray, one of my goats!
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Talking with Howard University Students about legacy and impact, from Thurgood and Brown v Board to Pauli Murray, HU Law, and the amazing history incl. Black women and queer genius at this amazing institution. Check out Becoming Thurgood and definitely get into Pauli Murray, one of my goats!
Paid $15 for Cigna to google a phone number for a closed urgent care, no reference, no referral, no appointments. What are we doing?
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Paid $15 for Cigna to google a phone number for a closed urgent care, no reference, no referral, no appointments. What are we doing?
Jk I know it’s physicists but yeah, is this the answer? Distortion = creation but by the laws of physics
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Jk I know it’s physicists but yeah, is this the answer? Distortion = creation but by the laws of physics
Wayment … so T gave B some t & P got a pic of it??? That’s wild.
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Wayment … so T gave B some t & P got a pic of it??? That’s wild.
“As the United States is trying to figure out how to solve authoritarianism and they keep going back to the same well, what they're missing is that the same people that they have pushed to the margins, they've also pushed their solutions out there too.” - Howard x Harvard x Democracy Is Black!
Howard Political Science Professor Marcus Board Jr. Named a 2025-26 Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard University
Political science professor Marcus Board Jr. discusses his forthcoming book project and his tenure as a a 2025-26 Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School
thedig.howard.edu
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“As the United States is trying to figure out how to solve authoritarianism and they keep going back to the same well, what they're missing is that the same people that they have pushed to the margins, they've also pushed their solutions out there too.” - Howard x Harvard x Democracy Is Black!
Reposted by Marcus Board Jr.
The practice of Baltimore police officers using their cars as weapons is nothing new
baltimorebeat.com/the-practice...
baltimorebeat.com/the-practice...
The practice of Baltimore police officers using their cars as weapons is nothing new
A recent viral video of a Baltimore Police officer attempting to run down a young man with his car in Park Heights drew immediate condemnation from city and police department officials, but the…
baltimorebeat.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The practice of Baltimore police officers using their cars as weapons is nothing new
baltimorebeat.com/the-practice...
baltimorebeat.com/the-practice...
Why Americans hate welfare? Somehow, it’s connected to why we need Keke Palmer’s new show. We have to bring communities together & fix problems with a broken (and easily ended) system. This is about food stamps, affirmative action, HBCUs and much more. Collective liberation is not only Black
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Why Americans hate welfare? Somehow, it’s connected to why we need Keke Palmer’s new show. We have to bring communities together & fix problems with a broken (and easily ended) system. This is about food stamps, affirmative action, HBCUs and much more. Collective liberation is not only Black
Reposted by Marcus Board Jr.
With the national guard now possibly in D.C. through next summer and immigration detentions continuing to tick up, local parents say they’re struggling to explain this moment to their children.
We asked a few experts — including @profmbj.bsky.social — for guidance:
We asked a few experts — including @profmbj.bsky.social — for guidance:
How to explain ICE and the national guard in DC to kids
We asked experts how to discuss ICE, the national guard deployment, and the current political moment with kids.
51st.news
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
With the national guard now possibly in D.C. through next summer and immigration detentions continuing to tick up, local parents say they’re struggling to explain this moment to their children.
We asked a few experts — including @profmbj.bsky.social — for guidance:
We asked a few experts — including @profmbj.bsky.social — for guidance:
There’s so much going on that it’s easy to forget how important it is to talk to young people about what’s going on & to listen to their ideas. Here’s some advice about how to do that from Foram Mehta
51st.news/dc-takeover-...
51st.news/dc-takeover-...
How to explain ICE and the national guard in DC to kids
We asked experts how to discuss ICE, the national guard deployment, and the current political moment with kids.
51st.news
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
There’s so much going on that it’s easy to forget how important it is to talk to young people about what’s going on & to listen to their ideas. Here’s some advice about how to do that from Foram Mehta
51st.news/dc-takeover-...
51st.news/dc-takeover-...
Reposted by Marcus Board Jr.
The New Georgia Project, one of the largest and most influential political groups in the South, is shutting down
New Georgia Project shuts down, ending a decade of political influence in state
Founded in 2013, the organization was credited with registering tens of thousands of left-leaning voters who helped turn Georgia into a political battleground.
ajc.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The New Georgia Project, one of the largest and most influential political groups in the South, is shutting down
Talk went well! Here’s some of the big data slides being discussed for those interested. Talk + Q&A are legible - feel free to ask q’s! Special shout out to everyone who participated in person and virtual 🫶🏽
Thanks to UMD & SPP for having me! 1/2
Thanks to UMD & SPP for having me! 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Talk went well! Here’s some of the big data slides being discussed for those interested. Talk + Q&A are legible - feel free to ask q’s! Special shout out to everyone who participated in person and virtual 🫶🏽
Thanks to UMD & SPP for having me! 1/2
Thanks to UMD & SPP for having me! 1/2