For the first time ever, Acosta Educational Partnership will be launching our Ethnic Studies Joy & Justice Institutes in 2025! We will be kicking things off in the greater San Diego area on 2/28 & 3/1 at Grossmont College in El Cajon, CA. Registration is open, so join us!

History doesn't repeat, but it does raid its own costume closet. From the Raleigh NC News and Observer, 2/2/1939

I’m honored and thrilled to be a keynote speaker at the Rooted in Resistance Conference in Atlanta Feb 27-March 1, 2026! Dr. Bettina Love is putting a powerful gathering together that you need to be a part of! Get your tickets at https://t.co/JbYz2NANZ6

“Over 1.8 million Africans died crossing the ocean, during the Atlantic Slave Trade”.

This is my favorite part. Paulo, I’m glad you’re not alive to see this.

The U.S. actor Richard Gere read a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, a celebrated Palestinian poet and author whose work articulated the struggles, exile and identity of the Palestinian people.

The White House trying to persuade women to have more kids while denying us reproductive rights, healthcare, childcare, paid leave, affordable housing and equal pay, and destroying education is truly dystopian.

"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." ― James Baldwin

The Ábrego García case isn't just one man. It's about US citizens "taken off the streets, forced onto planes and confined to foreign prisons." It's about "a shuddering degree of power" to wield "against citizens that the President simply disfavors." From https://t.co/AWMOhOGUaS

Meet Dr. Victoría Rodríguez, one of your facilitators for the 1st AEP Joy & Justice Ethnic Studies Institute at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California! Join us Feb 28-March 1! Registration is open but spots are filling up fast, so get in here now! https://t.co/ngOtplMpec

Meet Dr. Sean Arce, one of your facilitators for the 1st AEP Joy & Justice Ethnic Studies Institute at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California! Join us on February 28-March 1! Registration is open but spots are filling up fast, so get in here now! https://t.co/ngOtplLRoE

Meet Curtis Acosta, one of your facilitators for the 1st AEP Joy & Justice Ethnic Studies Institute at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California! Join us on February 28-March 1! Registration is open but spots are filling up fast, so get in here now! https://t.co/ngOtplLRoE

Give yourself a treat and sign up for our first AEP Joy & Justice Ethnic Studies Institute in San Diego on 2/28-3/1. Join this fantastic team of facilitators who I will be introducing all week, as we build up to our event. Spaces are going fast! https://t.co/It8YSLrpdB

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Very excited to present my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education,” at the @SchomburgCenter on Monday! I’d love to see all you NYC educators, students, parents, caregivers, and organizers!

The state of our world

For people to say DEI efforts have gone too far is hilarious when Black people WITH college degrees are still nearly 2x as likely to be unemployed as whites with degrees, even when those degrees are in the same disciplines. But please, tell me more about how we're "victimized"

Are you finishing or recently defended a PhD in African Am history focusing on the West/Southwest and migration/immigration history? If so please consider applying for a TT asst professor position at Arizona State! #AcademicJobs #twitterstorians #History https://t.co/f9B8wzMdWv

I took my infant son in his stroller to see her speak because I could not imagine missing it. Her words that night still fuel me today. Rest in Power, maestra. 😔🙏🏽✊🏽