Chenjerai Kumanyika

A first home. Kids. A family. Borrowers are putting these on hold to deal with astronomical student loan payment increases due to Trump killing the SAVE plan. They’ve done everything right and are now scraping to get by. What kind of American dream is that? www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

Well well well. Major shout out to our whole unruly community!! 💪🏿💪🏿

🥇 Happy to share that our show Unruly Subjects with @chenjerai.bsky.social received a Gold recognition in the @signalawards.bsky.social “Activism, Public Service & Social Impact” category. Listen to the show! rowhomeproductions.com/unrulysubjects

This was a fantastic and necessary conversation

Miriame Kaba = @prisonculture.bsky.social 💓

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Mariame Kaba joined me to spread the word about Communiversity Youth Day (NYC) THIS SAT 10/24 —free workshops for youth 14–17, 10am–3:30pm. But you don't want to miss her insights on organizing, relationships, policing, fascism & more. Hear the full convo FREE on our Patreon: tinyurl.com/ve7vhuvt

I went on NPR CodeSwitch to discuss what really happened w/“defund the police.” As a slogan it's not popular, but the idea that we can't raise questions, while police budgets, ICE & surveillance go wild is crazy. We get into the data. Worth listening to the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7b...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

For folks in or near Brooklyn tonight! There is nowhere like the Brooklyn Public Library. There is no one like @chenjerai.bsky.social. And there are few things more Brooklyn than Howard Zinn. Come on through! www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/dav...

The Uncivil Collective has tracked the rise of new "civil dialogue" programming on campuses, showing intense overlap between Zionist and racist, right-wing funders. Read: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... @mohanjdutt.bsky.social @mishmoshk.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social

Disability justice organizers are turning to immigrant rights groups to guide their interventions and show up for their neighbors amid Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown.

Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.

HERO TRAINING #ArmageddonCapitalism

This Wednesday October 14th at 7pm Brooklyn Library. Dave Zirin and Chenjerai Kumanyika on the Outsized life of Howard Zinn. youtube.com/shorts/zD9F4...

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

The new issue of Hammer & Hope is out! Featuring articles on Trump’s deadly invasion of Memphis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Democrats’s “Woke” Panic, and Kelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and Raves. hammerandhope.org

What can journalism learn from livestreaming—and what political possibilities do these platforms open up? Join me and Hasan Piker at NYU Journalism on Oct. 9 for “Journalism, Platforms, and Political Possibility,” a live taping of Unruly Subjects! www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...

Unruly reporting live from Minneapolis ahead of labor action and random Black love moment www.patreon.com/posts/171337...

Who trains U.S. police, and whose interests do they serve? I talk with reporter Glen Stellmacher about Israeli police training, activist surveillance, and his ASTI Files investigation. Full conversation out now on Unruly Subjects’ Patreon:
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Demetrius Noble and I watched the A Different World reboot and If I Go Will They Miss Me, then got together to process our first reactions. This freshman curfew scene gave us plenty to talk about. Subscribe and watch the full conversation: www.patreon.com/UnrulySubjects

I went to go see a film called if I go will they miss me. And JFC. Brace yourself. A very powerful film in my opinion. Like all things - it should also be critiqued but wow

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Once again, just kidding, those guys fucking love neoliberalism and the tech industry, stop buying their climate bullshit.

But they're using renewables! a) they're not, they're all quietly pivoting to dedicated natural gas plants, built by their oil buddies, b) renewables should be used to power useful shit c) this makes it so that renewables don't displace fossil fuels, they just add to supply for increasing demand

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.

Unruly Subjects will be back on Thursday Sept 24th with a new episode: Unruly Live at Sociaism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olúfémi Táíwò youtube.com/shorts/dUtto...

Scoop 🚨 Why is one of New York's most notorious union-busters forming independent unions? Cesar Alarcón, an anti-union consultant, showed up at Golden Krust with a new union, Local 311. Was it a sham? New investigation for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/09/23/u...

A lot of leaders say they want a “big tent.” But Maurice asks: why aren’t they fighting on the issues that affect the masses of people—healthcare, housing, police and ICE accountability, billionaire wealth, and the impact of AI and data centers? youtube.com/shorts/gVQnU...

"There's no way to separate race + class from what we are talking about. There's no way to separate them from even the *backlash* that Nikole Hannah-Jones is receiving right now." — @zansari8.bsky.social, co-executive director of @aqeny.bsky.social

Did y’all read NHJ piece, “Did I Betray My Own Child?” I talked with Dumi Lewis-McCoy & Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari about the questions it raises—and how we move from individual parental choices to the collective fight for justice in education. Full convo free on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/170273...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson to AAU: "withhold consideration of UNL readmission until the institution restores shared governance, protects tenure, & aligns with the principles that define leading research universities." #sharedgovernance #academicsky

ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.

We will be releasing the conversation on Unruly Subjects podcast

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Yall definitely don’t want to miss this discussion. We’re going to discuss the realest parts out loud.

Join MDC DSA on Wed 9/16 from 6-8pm @ SOST for a conversation with Donavan McKinney, an incoming Black DSA congressmember from Detroit, in a live recording of the 'Unruly Subjects' podcast with host Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Even if you think you won’t have time to read it right away, the first week (days!) of sales determine if we make the bestseller lists, which sadly determines a whole lot else about the fate of any book. Grab your copy now. naomiklein.org/end-times-fa... @astra.bsky.social

Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.

The Trump admin is afraid of educated critical thinkers which is why they are doing everything they can to bend higher education to their will. We can’t let them. The AAUP & AFT have responded to McMahon’s ‘Compact 2.0’ letter w/ our own “National Call to Action to the Secretary of Education.” 1

Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/10/i...

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