Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
@reineayiti.bsky.social
Feminist, scholar, spouse, writer, local organizer, mother, and lover of Jesus passionate about justice and improving the lives of Black women and girls globally
“What does it mean to be radical in this moment?” Listening to my Africana Studies colleague Caleb Gayle speak about his new book “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State” which takes up this question.
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“What does it mean to be radical in this moment?” Listening to my Africana Studies colleague Caleb Gayle speak about his new book “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State” which takes up this question.
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"Let's go to Haiti, and how history repeats itself."
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Let's go to Haiti, and how history repeats itself."
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
Proud prof mom moment—while talking to my teenage boys about Uncle Jonathan’s book Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness 16 yo son 2 nods and says “like how Equiano talks about the enslaved in the water…” When I tell you the way I exclaimed!!!
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Proud prof mom moment—while talking to my teenage boys about Uncle Jonathan’s book Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness 16 yo son 2 nods and says “like how Equiano talks about the enslaved in the water…” When I tell you the way I exclaimed!!!
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Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
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November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
Now that #LarrySummers is backing away from #Harvard commitments can I please get a version of my AM and PhD diplomas without his signatures? Is it possible to get new ones issued with Drew Faust, Claudine Gay, or Derek Bok instead please 🙏🏾 #askingforafriend
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Now that #LarrySummers is backing away from #Harvard commitments can I please get a version of my AM and PhD diplomas without his signatures? Is it possible to get new ones issued with Drew Faust, Claudine Gay, or Derek Bok instead please 🙏🏾 #askingforafriend
Join us on 11/12 for a lecture by Dr. Tiffany Bailey our postdoctoral fellow in Black Feminist Studies
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Join us on 11/12 for a lecture by Dr. Tiffany Bailey our postdoctoral fellow in Black Feminist Studies
Writing this “welcome letter” to AY 2025-26 hit so different this year.
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Director’s Welcome
Greetings! I hope that this message finds each of you as well as can be. As I welcome you to this new academic year, I am reminded again that Africana Studies is a discipline born of struggle, sustain...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Writing this “welcome letter” to AY 2025-26 hit so different this year.
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"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
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"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
A Conversation with Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard’s bestselling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and puni…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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@dukepress.bsky.social
"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
@policingblack.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)
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Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...
Day 1 of #1000wordsaday writing challenge felt so good. And went by faster thank expected! #amwriting #proflife #book4
June 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Day 1 of #1000wordsaday writing challenge felt so good. And went by faster thank expected! #amwriting #proflife #book4
How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past
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June 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
Octavia Butler’s mother gave her the gift of a typewriter for her 10th birthday. Toni Cade Bambara’s mother swept around her and did not disturb her as she created on the kitchen floor. As a mother their actions convicted me. What am I doing to nurture Black girl genius?
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Octavia Butler’s mother gave her the gift of a typewriter for her 10th birthday. Toni Cade Bambara’s mother swept around her and did not disturb her as she created on the kitchen floor. As a mother their actions convicted me. What am I doing to nurture Black girl genius?
I’ve spent the past two days thinking and writing in community with a wonderful group of people at @radcliffe.institute for a seminar on. The Environmental Writer-Activist. So grateful for the time to sit with thoughts and good people.
April 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’ve spent the past two days thinking and writing in community with a wonderful group of people at @radcliffe.institute for a seminar on. The Environmental Writer-Activist. So grateful for the time to sit with thoughts and good people.
“Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
April 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“From what I’ve read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.” Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“From what I’ve read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.” Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the final book on my syllabus for Black Women Lead. I can’t wait to hear how students are processing this novel today and what it has to teach us about leadership.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the final book on my syllabus for Black Women Lead. I can’t wait to hear how students are processing this novel today and what it has to teach us about leadership.
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Happy book birthday! Congratulations! This is a big day! I love connecting with authors on launch day. And the title looks great. Just bought a copy. And look at you #1 in new release! 🙌📙🎉
March 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Happy book birthday! Congratulations! This is a big day! I love connecting with authors on launch day. And the title looks great. Just bought a copy. And look at you #1 in new release! 🙌📙🎉
Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus
March 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus
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Even though I teach the ways that power functions to make this less clear to people it still majes my head hurt that people don't seem to get this.
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Even though I teach the ways that power functions to make this less clear to people it still majes my head hurt that people don't seem to get this.
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.” —Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Happy Women’s Day!
Happy Women’s Day!
March 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.” —Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Happy Women’s Day!
Happy Women’s Day!