tamara nopper
@tamaranopper.bsky.social
@jamellebouie.net Hi, hope you’re well.
Given the political concerns examined in your work, I wanted to put on your radar a forthcoming book by Justin Leroy that you might find of interest, if not aware of it.
It’s provocative, rich, and beautifully written.
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-low...
Given the political concerns examined in your work, I wanted to put on your radar a forthcoming book by Justin Leroy that you might find of interest, if not aware of it.
It’s provocative, rich, and beautifully written.
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-low...
The Lowest Freedom | Columbia University Press
Throughout the nineteenth century, Black thinkers grappled with the material limits of freedom. They insisted that emancipation without economic self-determi... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
February 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
@jamellebouie.net Hi, hope you’re well.
Given the political concerns examined in your work, I wanted to put on your radar a forthcoming book by Justin Leroy that you might find of interest, if not aware of it.
It’s provocative, rich, and beautifully written.
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-low...
Given the political concerns examined in your work, I wanted to put on your radar a forthcoming book by Justin Leroy that you might find of interest, if not aware of it.
It’s provocative, rich, and beautifully written.
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-low...
Teaching sociologist Troy Duster’s scholarship on drugs and morality and forensic DNA databases.
One of the joys of teaching Duster’s work is sharing with classes that he is the grandson of the first U.S.-based Black sociologist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose scholarship is part of all my classes.
One of the joys of teaching Duster’s work is sharing with classes that he is the grandson of the first U.S.-based Black sociologist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose scholarship is part of all my classes.
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Teaching sociologist Troy Duster’s scholarship on drugs and morality and forensic DNA databases.
One of the joys of teaching Duster’s work is sharing with classes that he is the grandson of the first U.S.-based Black sociologist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose scholarship is part of all my classes.
One of the joys of teaching Duster’s work is sharing with classes that he is the grandson of the first U.S.-based Black sociologist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose scholarship is part of all my classes.
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“Repression doesn’t always operate in the dramatic. It often operates in the mundane.”
‘We Know Where You Live.’ Protesters Say ICE Agents Retaliate With Threats, Investigations
ICE observers and critics report being audited, pulled over, called by name or followed home by agents.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“Repression doesn’t always operate in the dramatic. It often operates in the mundane.”
In my advanced research methods class, I’ve added sections on news as source of data and facts and changes to publishing to emphasize your point.
To get students to understand that long-term investigation, fact checking, and copyediting are becoming obsolete and are tough to sustain individually.
To get students to understand that long-term investigation, fact checking, and copyediting are becoming obsolete and are tough to sustain individually.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
In my advanced research methods class, I’ve added sections on news as source of data and facts and changes to publishing to emphasize your point.
To get students to understand that long-term investigation, fact checking, and copyediting are becoming obsolete and are tough to sustain individually.
To get students to understand that long-term investigation, fact checking, and copyediting are becoming obsolete and are tough to sustain individually.
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"Out of that meeting, the Cedar Riverside Protection Alliance was born: a rapid response network of Somali youth whose devotion to each other and the place they call home outweighed their fears."
truthout.org/articles/som...
truthout.org/articles/som...
Somali Communities Are Building Collective Power in the Face of Trump’s Attacks
Minnesota’s Somali community has organized mutual aid and neighborhood patrols amid Trump’s campaign to crush them.
truthout.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
"Out of that meeting, the Cedar Riverside Protection Alliance was born: a rapid response network of Somali youth whose devotion to each other and the place they call home outweighed their fears."
truthout.org/articles/som...
truthout.org/articles/som...
“Despite the federal rule change, many publications have not yet removed their open access fees, leaving the burden on the researchers using the federal dollars to ensure open access by paying for it.”
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...
Federal rule change requires open access to research papers, elicits mixed responses from Brown researchers
The change to make science more accessible to the public has broad support, but concerns persist.
www.browndailyherald.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:49 AM
“Despite the federal rule change, many publications have not yet removed their open access fees, leaving the burden on the researchers using the federal dollars to ensure open access by paying for it.”
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...
Regarding Kwame Ture (then Stokely Carmichael) coining the phrase “Black power,” James Baldwin said, “He didn’t coin it. He simply dug it up again from where it’s been lying since the first slaves hit the gangplank.”
Again, Baldwin was an Afropessimist thinker before the theory had a name.
Again, Baldwin was an Afropessimist thinker before the theory had a name.
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Regarding Kwame Ture (then Stokely Carmichael) coining the phrase “Black power,” James Baldwin said, “He didn’t coin it. He simply dug it up again from where it’s been lying since the first slaves hit the gangplank.”
Again, Baldwin was an Afropessimist thinker before the theory had a name.
Again, Baldwin was an Afropessimist thinker before the theory had a name.
In his 80s, W.E.B. Du Bois taught courses at the Jefferson School of Social Science, where he bridged Pan-Africanism with Marxism, Lorraine Hansberry was a student in his class, and he had exam questions about war as capitalist tool to maintain white supremacy. I love this man.
February 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
In his 80s, W.E.B. Du Bois taught courses at the Jefferson School of Social Science, where he bridged Pan-Africanism with Marxism, Lorraine Hansberry was a student in his class, and he had exam questions about war as capitalist tool to maintain white supremacy. I love this man.
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Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.
February 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.
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Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
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You don’t actually have to feel sorry for the poor overworked Nazi lawyer. If she does a good job, people die
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
You don’t actually have to feel sorry for the poor overworked Nazi lawyer. If she does a good job, people die
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Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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More attention here, please.
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
More attention here, please.
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Guatemalans in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood are supporting each other amid fears of continuing ICE raids.
In Brooklyn, a Community Shows Resolve in the Wake of a Deacon's ICE Arrest - Documented
Guatemalans in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood are supporting each other amid fears of continuing ICE raids.
documentedny.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Guatemalans in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood are supporting each other amid fears of continuing ICE raids.
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This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
Feb. 3, 1948 | Black Woman and Her Children Sentenced to Die for Defending Themselves
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
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Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.
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We decided to drop the paywall on @kwanetaharris.bsky.social because it's so powerful and urgent. Kwaneta writes about how the state is her abuser as an incarcerated woman. Read for free here: www.theflytrapmedia.com/aint-we-wome...
Ain't We Women, Too?
For many incarcerated women, the state is their abuser, but the gender-based violence we experience behind bars goes ignored.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
We decided to drop the paywall on @kwanetaharris.bsky.social because it's so powerful and urgent. Kwaneta writes about how the state is her abuser as an incarcerated woman. Read for free here: www.theflytrapmedia.com/aint-we-wome...
Like Toni Cade Bambara said, “I'm very serious about improving. It feels good.”
February 3, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Like Toni Cade Bambara said, “I'm very serious about improving. It feels good.”
The idea that committed people don't have egos is strange. Many committed people talked with others or in journals about not getting attention they deserved.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote her autobiography cuz Carter G. Woodson ignored her and young people didn't know her work. I love that about her.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote her autobiography cuz Carter G. Woodson ignored her and young people didn't know her work. I love that about her.
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The idea that committed people don't have egos is strange. Many committed people talked with others or in journals about not getting attention they deserved.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote her autobiography cuz Carter G. Woodson ignored her and young people didn't know her work. I love that about her.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote her autobiography cuz Carter G. Woodson ignored her and young people didn't know her work. I love that about her.
High impact, low ego. Okay. I'm going for high impact, low visibility, and medium ego, lol.
February 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
High impact, low ego. Okay. I'm going for high impact, low visibility, and medium ego, lol.
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It's great that more abolitionists and the labor movement are challenging union membership of immigration enforcement.
In this spirt, a 2012 position paper on unions needing to challenge Black criminalization and policing by @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social and me.
blackagendareport.com/content/why-...
In this spirt, a 2012 position paper on unions needing to challenge Black criminalization and policing by @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social and me.
blackagendareport.com/content/why-...
Why the AFL-CIO Must Address Black Criminalization and (Un)Employment | Black Agenda Report
by Tamara K. Nopper and Kenyon Farrow Blacks are more likely than whites or Latinos to be members of labor unions. Yet, the AFL-CIO seems not to recognize the multiple challenges that face their most ...
blackagendareport.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
It's great that more abolitionists and the labor movement are challenging union membership of immigration enforcement.
In this spirt, a 2012 position paper on unions needing to challenge Black criminalization and policing by @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social and me.
blackagendareport.com/content/why-...
In this spirt, a 2012 position paper on unions needing to challenge Black criminalization and policing by @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social and me.
blackagendareport.com/content/why-...
Some of us know about the 1960s and 1970s, but not so much the activism and organizing of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Yet those decades are a big part of our political inheritance in terms of leadership, training, organizations, vocabulary, people power, and conflicts and breaks and new directions.
February 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Some of us know about the 1960s and 1970s, but not so much the activism and organizing of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Yet those decades are a big part of our political inheritance in terms of leadership, training, organizations, vocabulary, people power, and conflicts and breaks and new directions.
Someday I’d like a serious book to be written about the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The organization did a lot of important community organizing work against policing in NYC, created political ed, and many of its members went on to create political and artistic projects across the country.
February 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Someday I’d like a serious book to be written about the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The organization did a lot of important community organizing work against policing in NYC, created political ed, and many of its members went on to create political and artistic projects across the country.
Do enough people know that copwatching as a political practice and strategy was popularized by the Black Panther Party? It was part of its approach to self-defense.
www.justicecommittee.org/cop-watch
www.justicecommittee.org/cop-watch
Cop Watch | NYC | Justice Committee
Watch the Fusion video on our Cop Watch model in NYC. Learn what cop watch is and how you can join or create a cop watch team in your neighborhood.
www.justicecommittee.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Do enough people know that copwatching as a political practice and strategy was popularized by the Black Panther Party? It was part of its approach to self-defense.
www.justicecommittee.org/cop-watch
www.justicecommittee.org/cop-watch