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Carla D. Martin
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Harvard Lecturer on African and African American Studies, Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research Board President, author, researcher, reader, musician, polyglot, partner. Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's. she/her
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📢 An Invitation: Black History at the Vassall Estate Virtual Presentation

Thurs, Sept 25, 6–7pm ET. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ft @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social, me, and a village of researchers & descendant community members who contributed to our forthcoming 200+ page report!
Cover page of the report Black History at the Vassall Estate, featuring several signatures of the Black Vassall family.
September 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Visitors ♥️
Mama dear watches over her frisky baby at the edge of the forest Baby deer frolics in the grass
June 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Pink lady's slipper #flowerreport
A pink lady's slipper flower grows on the side of a mossy bank
May 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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it's cozy over here darth
Elegant black cat lounges in sunbeam in front of fireplace
March 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Professors at Harvard, Rutgers and NYU Join Columbia Knight Institute and AAUP to Sue Trump Administration for Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students for Lawful Speech
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2025 Contact for Harvard American Association of University Professors: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History at Harvard University and the president of AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, kweld@aaup-hfc.org Professors at Harvard, Rutgers and NYU Join Columbia Knight Institute and AAUP to Sue Trump Administration for Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students for Lawful Speech “Our First Amendment right to hear from our students and colleagues is under attack,” faculty members say Cambridge, MA—The Harvard Faculty Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has joined the AAUP, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), and the NYU and Rutgers chapters of AAUP in today filing a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in protests supporting Palestinian human rights and other protected First Amendment activities. Represented by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Ahilan Arulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP, the lawsuit alleges that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. “The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, imprison, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that,” said Jameel Jaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute, which is representing the plaintiffs. “This policy is an insult to our Constitution and should have no place in our democracy.” Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce the immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association. Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of repression and intense fear on university campuses, “terrorizing foreign students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.” “We have to defend constitutionally protected speech and association, especially on university campuses, where our core mission of research and teaching depends on the free exchange of ideas,” said Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and a member of AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter’s Executive Committee. “American universities have become great by building on contributions from people from all over the world. The abduction, caging, and deportation of non-citizen students on ideological grounds threatens the university’s purpose and function because the pursuit of knowledge cannot prosper in a climate of fear and repression.” “We are already seeing the chilling effects of the ideological-deportation policy on our campus,” said Kirsten Weld, Professor of History at Harvard University and the president of AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter. “This intolerable and unlawful attac… Read today’s complaint here: https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/pwkvocf6z4 Read more about the case here: https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio ### The lawsuit is a joint effort of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the AAUP’s Harvard, Rutgers and NYU chapters, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. AAUP represents tens of thousands of faculty and all educators and researchers in higher education to advocate for academic freedom, financial security and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good. MESA is a non-profit association representing thousands of scholars of the Middle East and the Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age, promoting a system of free expression that is open and inclusive, that broadens and elevates public discourse, and that fosters creativity, accountability, and effective self-government.
March 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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@ Harvard this Thursday
Sign announcing emergency rally in front of Widener Library at Harvard on Thursday at 4:30pm
March 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM