Marcus Board Jr.

Quick thought for your morning commute … and life?

I'm very good for a "nobody in your life likes you" put down. Like wow, I bet people invite you over to hang out often Or I know everybody is excited when you show up at family get togethers Your coworkers are so excited every day you show up I bet you raised happy pets.

More amazing work from Melissa Hellmann with @theguardian.com & some light contributions from me on Black youth, socialism, the @workingfamilies.org Working Family Party, and remembering that Black faces in high places won’t save anyone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Excited to join my colleagues! Pop into our discussion on the unfinished revolution - link below us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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This clip features stirring images from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement to LBJ signing the law. But check out the full interview in the link. Marcus breaks down politics, elections, the shift to courting the Black vote, etc. A great interview w/ a super smart political scientist!

July 2, 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed. A brief history from the early 1930s through Critical Race Theory onto today and the new struggles with preemption, which stop us from pursing legal pathways. The more you know. Link Below: www.livenowfox.com/video/fmc-il...

Talking Langston Hughes's Darker Brother, Frederick Douglass' What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, and DuBois dying in Ghana before the march on Washington. Great conversation with Adam Llorens about dealing with a crisis of conscience. Let us know what you think.

“Because you might accidentally have a Klan rally” isn’t something you ever expect to think. In a disconnected and segregated world, what you DON’T know is hurting so many others. Got a chance to talk with Adam Llorens about the Chicago fire starter and the enduring value of a whole education.

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Princeton's Valedictorian is, for the first time, an African American Studies Major. Daniel Yu is in (trans) gender studies. And now you know the stakes of the piece. Again, grateful for my brilliant friends who read and enjoyed. We can't gatekeep freedom - let it ring from the mountaintops!

How does this affect me What's changed and What do we need to know going forward? Talking Voting Rights Act and how to fight back voter suppression. #DrMarcusBoard #Explore #BlackSky #ForYou #Politics

Shared this essay with a few brilliant friends who enjoyed. Sharing here to see what others think. More coming on the powerful connections between anti-intellectualism and anti-Blackness. open.substack.com/pub/profmbj/...

Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social , @profmbj.bsky.social ( @howard.edu ) is featured in The Pluralist 21.1, an issue that publishes the SAAP 2025 Conference. He contributes to the Coss Dialogue, discussing the work of Dominic Moulden with other scholars. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56411

“With all the power, wealth, and resources in the world, brilliance at their fingertips, and the best idea they have is to rebuild statues honoring the forefathers and mothers of the Epstein class.” More on monuments, check out PS 2020 - Andrea Benjamin et al on the topic!

I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

Economics is a politically conservative field. Their conclusions are often biased towards empire. Here is a breakdown of the way they use words to hide intention. It's the wizard of oz and we are not in the good place.

It’s not just the immensity of the work that’s encouraging; it’s the way her portraiture expands our collective assessments about identity, so that the read becomes too broad, too complex, to be pigeonholed. baltimorebeat.com/epically-ecs...

The disconnect between women's clothing sizes and the women who buy them is stunning. Good article here

New war just dropped. People are made poor to fight wars. Wars create new destinations to visit. Is this the world economy we produce, uphold?

Saying “it’s fashion” & it’s just someone dressed as the tea kettle from beauty and the beast. Like sure, you’re right but I don’t have to be happy about it

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

I thought if I stared into the abyss and didn’t blink that I’d have no more problems. But I still think you should do it.

If they move to Gary, will they be the Gare Bears?

I just know RFK Jr watched The Accountant and thought THEY HAVE POWERS WHY ARENT WE TAPPING IN

Standing before Amy Sherald’s work, you must learn to stretch; many of her canvases require the reorientation of your perspective, inspire you to become more flexible about your vantage, crane your neck upward in reverence to the quiet opulence of lives well lived. baltimorebeat.com/epically-ecs...