| 1 | Feb 20, '23 | On #PresidentsDay, it is important to recall that at least twelve U.S. presidents enslaved Black people, eight while in office. Two-thirds of the first 18 presidents collectively e | 583× | 7.5M | 11k | 2.7k | 493 |
| 2 | Apr 17, '23 | Ralph Paul Yarl was picking up his two siblings. He went to the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri. The White man who opened the door did not see a lost 16-year-old boy. He saw a | 231× | 3M | 12k | 3k | 203 |
| 3 | Jan 4, '24 | To assume merit is the reason White people are overrepresented in positions of power and influence is to assume White people are superior. To assume peoples of color in positions o | 225× | 2.9M | 6.8k | 1.3k | 771 |
| 4 | Jun 28, '23 | This #PrideMonth, it is important to recognize non-binary and gender nonconforming people have been here from the beginning of the U.S. Here is a thread on one of the most influent | 109× | 1.4M | 6.4k | 1.6k | 934 |
| 5 | Jul 11, '23 | It's often said: White kids, upon being taught the history of racism, will feel guilty or bad about being White. In fact, White kids who receive antiracist history lessons exhibit | 52.5× | 676k | 8.9k | 2.1k | 558 |
| 6 | Dec 25, '22 | From our family to yours, have a very Merry Christmas and a refreshing New Year! 🎄 | 25.7× | 331k | 8.3k | 123 | 7 |
| 7 | Dec 23, '22 | It has been magical this year to witness our daughter learn to read and fall in love with books and libraries. Full of gratitude for the people who defended our new readers—and the | 22.6× | 291k | 6.1k | 185 | 14 |
| 8 | Aug 28, '23 | In 2018, I was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer. Only 14 percent of people receiving my diagnosis are likely to be alive five years later. Today, I can officially say I am | 19.5× | 251k | 6.8k | 208 | 30 |
| 9 | Nov 22, '20 | This is the American criminal justice system in a nutshell. | 13.7× | 0 | 64k | 18k | 503 |
| 10 | Nov 7, '20 | I want the love of Black voters right now to transform into the love of Black people. | 10.9× | 0 | 59k | 10k | 135 |
| 11 | Jul 4, '20 | Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Her | 9.4× | 0 | 37k | 14k | 2.6k |
| 12 | Jan 6, '21 | White privilege is on display like never before in the U.S. Capitol. If these people were Black. . .well, we all know what would be happening right now to them. | 9.2× | 0 | 39k | 14k | 128 |
| 13 | Jan 20, '21 | He's gone. And now, it is up to us to drive out what he represents. He is lies and bigotry and injustice and tyranny embodied--and the work is only beginning to drive him out of ou | 8.3× | 0 | 46k | 8.4k | 157 |
| 14 | Aug 24, '20 | Seven shots in the back. Seven shots. Seven. In the back. For breaking up a fight. I'm undone. Shot in front of his children. I'm undone. As #JacobBlake fights for his life, his ki | 7.7× | 0 | 37k | 10k | 104 |
| 15 | Sep 18, '20 | No, not RBG. What a colossal loss. What a lioness. She taught us all how to fight, how to fight cancer, how to fight for justice, how to fight for our lives. | 7.6× | 0 | 45k | 6.4k | 95 |
| 16 | Jun 7, '20 | They have compiled more than 400 videos—documentary evidence of the law and order of brutal policing in the United States of America. | 7.2× | 0 | 24k | 13k | 1.8k |
| 17 | Sep 23, '21 | I can safely say I’ve now been cancer free for 3 years. My doc told me last night. It’s a milestone year after stage IV colon cancer. I feel fortunate, lucky and determined to not | 7.2× | 0 | 51k | 908 | 73 |
| 18 | Jul 7, '22 | I am in London and Boris Johnson is resigning. I am shocked. A leader of a Conservative Party is being held accountable by his own party. As a U.S. citizen, I was entirely cynical | 7.0× | 0 | 46k | 3.2k | 205 |
| 19 | Aug 28, '20 | This is what Republicans mean by law and order. | 6.8× | 0 | 30k | 9.5k | 340 |
| 20 | Apr 19, '20 | I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law. Riot units would be b | 6.3× | 0 | 29k | 7.1k | 340 |
| 21 | Jun 26, '20 | Any return to normal is a return to the normality of racism. | 5.8× | 0 | 30k | 7k | 122 |
| 22 | Sep 6, '20 | Trump does not want a nation of critical thinkers. He wants a nation of loyal believers. | 4.9× | 0 | 28k | 3.5k | 89 |
| 23 | Jan 17, '22 | “I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. | 4.8× | 0 | 22k | 6.3k | 167 |
| 24 | Dec 27, '21 | This. | 4.7× | 0 | 28k | 3.2k | 334 |
| 25 | Jun 3, '20 | It is empty when politicians call for healing and peace without stating antiracist policies they want to institute. Words bring momentary healing and peace. Policy change brings la | 4.0× | 0 | 19k | 5.3k | 103 |
| 26 | Sep 18, '20 | What Trump calls "patriotic education" is racist education. | 3.9× | 0 | 21k | 3.9k | 50 |
| 27 | Aug 11, '20 | The Democrats now have a presidential ticket that reflects the American people better than the GOP ticket and every presidential ticket in US history. It’s not everything. It’s not | 3.6× | 0 | 21k | 3.1k | 84 |
| 28 | Oct 22, '19 | A lynching! A lynching? I’m thinking about the lies, the kidnapping, the rope, the torture, the cheering crowd, the death portrait, the people walking away with body parts of my an | 3.6× | 0 | 17k | 4.5k | 82 |
| 29 | Jul 1, '20 | Today, I’m delighted to begin a new chapter in my academic life as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities @BU_Tweets. The first and only holder of this endowed professors | 3.5× | 0 | 22k | 1.8k | 84 |
| 30 | May 26, '20 | We should be drawing a straight line of racist terror from #AmyCooper to this Minneapolis cop. Too often, she is the beginning. He is the end. #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe | 3.5× | 0 | 15k | 5.1k | 121 |
| 31 | Jan 6, '21 | "White Americans are not afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops. Even when they are committing insurrection." --Just a few words from @JoyAnnReid moments | 3.5× | 0 | 17k | 4.3k | 142 |
| 32 | Nov 7, '20 | The term “legal vote” is as fictionally fraught and functionally racist as the terms “illegal alien” and “race neutral” and “welfare queen” and “handouts” and “super predator” and | 3.3× | 0 | 13k | 2.6k | 264 |
| 33 | Oct 8, '20 | As soon as Pence started denying the existence of systemic racism, the fly got him! #VPDebate | 3.3× | 0 | 19k | 2.6k | 25 |
| 34 | Sep 23, '20 | To not indict the officers for murder is to claim #BreonnaTaylor killed herself. Racist America constantly kills Black people and then tells Black people we killed ourselves. Racis | 3.0× | 0 | 13k | 4.4k | 60 |
| 35 | Aug 13, '20 | I am a full of thanks on this day, my 38th birthday. Two years ago, I didn’t know whether I’d see another birthday. I was dealing with stage 4 cancer, facing down a daylong cancer | 3.0× | 0 | 19k | 836 | 78 |
| 36 | May 29, '20 | I want to make some things plain. Police violence has historically been the source of the violent rebellions of Black people and their allies. Police violence begets violent resist | 3.0× | 0 | 14k | 4k | 269 |
| 37 | Aug 26, '20 | Have you ever wondered how so many people could allow thousands of Black people to be publicly lynched week after week, year after year in the 19th century and 20th century? Have y | 2.8× | 0 | 12k | 3.8k | 377 |
| 38 | Dec 29, '18 | There was a time in this nation’s history when slaveholding politicians blamed abolitionists for the deaths of all those illegals resisting slavery. Abolitionist policies were allo | 2.8× | 0 | 12k | 4.4k | 73 |
| 39 | Aug 23, '20 | “Some protesters” is the key phrase. The bill is not for those White people demonstrating for the freedom to infect us, to own assault rifles, to keep monuments to White supremacy. | 2.8× | 0 | 12k | 4.3k | 89 |
| 40 | Jun 7, '20 | This is striking: "On the most recent New York Times list of best-selling nonfiction in e-books and print, five of the Top 15 titles address racism. . .The week before, there were | 2.7× | 0 | 12k | 3.4k | 364 |
| 41 | Jun 19, '20 | In 1865, Black people all over the South were saying this Union officials: Do not abolish slavery and leave us landless and disenfranchised. Do not force us to work for our former | 2.7× | 0 | 12k | 3.5k | 290 |
| 42 | Apr 13, '19 | It goes without saying that #IStandWithIlhanOmar. And anyone who does not stands with @IlhanMN stands with Islamophobia, with racism, with politicians deploying lies to inflame rac | 2.6× | 0 | 10k | 2.7k | 43 |
| 43 | Nov 7, '20 | The GOP will lose the Presidency, and may lose the U.S. Senate, but if Americans commonly start using the term “legal vote,” as if there’s a horde of “illegal votes,” then the GOP | 2.6× | 0 | 14k | 2.7k | 41 |
| 44 | Oct 4, '22 | Historic Fenway Park is right around the corner from Boston University. And tonight, I walked over and threw out the first pitch at the Boston Red Sox game. Never thought I’d do th | 2.5× | 0 | 17k | 482 | 51 |
| 45 | May 25, '20 | This is jarring because my enslaved ancestors were literally human capital stock. No matter what, they were always told to go back to work. This could be 1820. | 2.4× | 0 | 11k | 3k | 153 |
| 46 | Apr 20, '21 | Guilty on all three counts. My only wish: The jury should have only deliberated for 9 minutes and 28 seconds. #DerekChauvinTrial | 2.3× | 0 | 14k | 1.7k | 37 |
| 47 | Aug 26, '20 | Proud of my brothers in the NBA. Like their sisters in the WNBA, they refuse to shut up and dribble. How can they? They are in pain, too. They are angry, too. They want justice, to | 2.3× | 0 | 14k | 1.7k | 23 |
| 48 | Sep 30, '20 | I feel sick. And I suspect I'm not alone. #Debates2020 | 2.2× | 0 | 15k | 951 | 14 |
| 49 | Jan 6, '21 | The same reason why the police routinely kill Black people is the same reason why the police are routinely unprepared for White domestic terrorists. | 2.2× | 0 | 11k | 2.8k | 55 |
| 50 | Nov 7, '20 | A Black and Indian American woman named Kamala will be our Vice President. We are the first generation of Americans who will be able to respectfully say Madam Vice President. Now l | 2.2× | 0 | 12k | 1.9k | 29 |
| 51 | Oct 15, '22 | How do you turn racist comments by Latinx members of the LA City Council into an attack on me? Ask @nytdavidbrooks who in his recent column misrepresented my scholarship, which the | 2.1× | 0 | 9.5k | 1.8k | 566 |
| 52 | Jul 11, '20 | During tail end of the enslavement era, private citizens were empowered and trained to violently “arrest” runaways. Our unjust present is our unjust past. Our unjust past is our un | 2.0× | 0 | 7.5k | 3.7k | 98 |
| 53 | Dec 15, '19 | This impeachment trial is becoming like a Jim Crow trial. Deep down everyone knows everything. Everyone knows the racist defendant is guilty. Everyone knows the all-White jury is g | 2.0× | 0 | 8.4k | 3k | 61 |
| 54 | Nov 8, '20 | "The African American community stood up for me. You always had my back and I will have yours." --President-elect Joe Biden says, pounding the podium | 2.0× | 0 | 12k | 1.1k | 48 |
| 55 | Jul 18, '20 | “When you see something that is not right. Not fair. Not just. . Do something. Get in trouble. Good trouble.” —John Lewis The opposite of engaging in #goodtrouble is doing nothing | 2.0× | 0 | 9.5k | 2.5k | 76 |
| 56 | Sep 20, '20 | Fascist power doesn't care about consistency, rules, fairness, precedents, truth. Fascist power does not respond to appeals to its hypocrisy, its lies, its unfairness, its destruct | 1.9× | 0 | 8.4k | 2.5k | 102 |
| 57 | Jan 6, '21 | The greatest domestic terrorist threat of our time are White male supremacists who adore Donald J. Trump. But Americans are too blinded by their own racist ideas to see these terro | 1.9× | 0 | 9.1k | 2.5k | 29 |
| 58 | May 26, '20 | "I'm not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way," Amy Cooper said. "I think I was just scared." Why were you scared? Why did you fear the Black male? Fear harms. The | 1.9× | 0 | 8.8k | 2.1k | 112 |
| 59 | May 24, '22 | Someone killed 14 children and 1 teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. I’m wholly devastated. We live in a society where power absolutely refuses to protect our children | 1.9× | 0 | 9.5k | 2.3k | 60 |
| 60 | Feb 13, '21 | Cowardice: The inability to gather the strength to do what’s right in the face of fear. | 1.9× | 0 | 11k | 1.7k | 46 |
| 61 | Mar 17, '21 | Locking arms with Asian Americans facing this lethal wave of anti-Asian terror. Their struggle is my struggle. Our struggle is against racism and White supremacist domestic terror. | 1.9× | 0 | 8.4k | 1.5k | 80 |
| 62 | Dec 22, '18 | He lost much more than he won. I constantly worry about how much Black people have to lose in order to win in this society. | 1.9× | 0 | 9.3k | 2.2k | 30 |
| 63 | Nov 5, '20 | Americans are deeply divided—and we’re deeply divided over why we’re deeply divided. To be antiracist is to recognize and challenge racism as the source of the racial divide. To be | 1.8× | 0 | 9.1k | 2k | 133 |
| 64 | Jun 4, '20 | During this trying time, I wanted to share some good news. I’ll be joining the illustrious faculty @BU_Tweets and working with the BU family to build the BU Center for Antiracist R | 1.8× | 0 | 10k | 1.2k | 77 |
| 65 | Jun 2, '20 | This doesn’t happen everyday. It is fitting it happens on the day we are Blacking out for Black lives and hopefully supporting our local independent bookstores, too. The #1 and #2 | 1.8× | 0 | 8.9k | 1.9k | 118 |
| 66 | Apr 29, '21 | The heartbeat of racism is denial. We can hear the heartbeat clearly. | 1.8× | 0 | 6.4k | 1.1k | 61 |
| 67 | May 27, '20 | I wrote this book for this moment, for this moment to become a movement, for the movement to transform us as we transform this country. Thank you to the folks reading + recommendin | 1.7× | 0 | 7.5k | 2.1k | 236 |
| 68 | Oct 23, '20 | "I'm the least racist person in this room," Trump said. The heartbeat of racism is denial. #Debates2020 | 1.7× | 0 | 8.7k | 1.7k | 34 |
| 69 | Sep 30, '20 | I suspect countless people who've been relentlessly bullied or verbally abused are being triggered right now. #Debates2020 | 1.6× | 0 | 8.9k | 1.2k | 22 |
| 70 | Sep 23, '20 | "The law" is lawless and it has been ever since "the law" replaced the master. | 1.6× | 0 | 8k | 1.7k | 60 |
| 71 | Aug 28, '20 | Two years ago, I was in surgery. All day. Literally. I went back at around 6 am. My family did not see me in the ICU until after 6 pm. The surgeons removed the tumors—or what was l | 1.6× | 0 | 11k | 283 | 25 |
| 72 | Apr 10, '21 | I can’t tell you how many Black people in history were whipped, beaten, or lynched because they “didn’t comply” and then blamed for their own injuries and deaths since they “didn’t | 1.5× | 0 | 7.5k | 1.8k | 100 |
| 73 | Oct 17, '20 | I want a new world where humans accept the hard truth as routinely as they accept the easy lies in this world. | 1.5× | 0 | 8.8k | 1.3k | 28 |
| 74 | Nov 4, '20 | So the man who said the deadly pandemic is rounding the corner, climate change is a hoax, racism doesn’t exist, all criticism is fake, Mexico’s paying for the wall, and there’s mas | 1.5× | 0 | 9.2k | 1.1k | 43 |
| 75 | Feb 8, '20 | It is amazing that Andrew Yang said we can eliminate racism by giving people of color "buying power." As if buying power will prevent me from being killed by racist cops. #DemDebat | 1.5× | 0 | 8.1k | 1.3k | 52 |
| 76 | Jul 2, '22 | Here I responded to the argument that teaching young children about the history of racism is going to make White kids feel bad. Thank you @colbertlateshow for having me. #HowToRais | 1.5× | 0 | 6.5k | 1.7k | 405 |
| 77 | Nov 5, '20 | Dear Trump voters: | 1.5× | 0 | 8k | 1.3k | 37 |
| 78 | Jan 23, '22 | The clarity of young people. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 | 1.5× | 0 | 8.8k | 949 | 103 |
| 79 | Feb 8, '19 | People are not trained to diagnose their own racism. People are trained to deny their own racism. | 1.4× | 0 | 7k | 1.8k | 54 |
| 80 | Aug 29, '20 | I am crushed. Beyond crushed to wake up in the middle of the night to this nightmare, to the passing of Chadwick Boseman. Of colon cancer! What tried to kill me! It’s too much. It’ | 1.4× | 0 | 9.8k | 463 | 28 |
| 81 | Sep 23, '20 | To be Black in America is to walk in the valley of the shadow of pain and death. The fact that Black people still manage to carry on and create and find joy and love in the valley | 1.4× | 0 | 6.8k | 1.6k | 45 |
| 82 | Feb 25, '21 | Today Elijah McClain would have turned 25 years old. In August 2019, police officers in Aurora, Colorado, approached Elijah as he walked home from a convenience store. A 911 caller | 1.4× | 0 | 6.9k | 1.8k | 16 |
| 83 | Nov 8, '20 | "For American educators, it's a great day for you all. You are going to have one of your own in the White House." --President-elect Joe Biden talking about the new First Lady, Jill | 1.4× | 0 | 7.8k | 1.1k | 24 |
| 84 | Jan 7, '22 | “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” —Zora Neale Hurston A word for us on the birthday of this legendary writer and thinker. | 1.4× | 0 | 7k | 1.5k | 176 |
| 85 | Sep 1, '21 | Two years ago, Elijah McClain, who loved playing the violin, was walking home from the store carrying iced tea. He never made it home. Now, the officers who put the 23-year-old in | 1.4× | 0 | 6.7k | 1.7k | 34 |
| 86 | Jun 19, '20 | On this #Juneteenth, 155 years later, Americans are celebrating the abolition of slavery. But Black people are not celebrating as if we are free. Chattel slavery is no more. But th | 1.4× | 0 | 7.3k | 1.4k | 21 |
| 87 | Nov 3, '20 | The last time I felt this way was before my cancer surgery. It could go either way: the new beginning of life or death. All I remember telling myself was no matter what, I’m going | 1.3× | 0 | 8.7k | 539 | 31 |
| 88 | Mar 8, '20 | Why has Biden outlasted all those more talented moderates and progressives? It’s not his ability, feats or campaign. Here are the 3 reasons Biden is the front runner. 1. He’s a Whi | 1.3× | 0 | 7.1k | 1k | 53 |
| 89 | Oct 23, '20 | "Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump." Nobody has lied more about the Black community than Donald Trump. #Debates2020 | 1.3× | 0 | 6.9k | 1.3k | 6 |
| 90 | Nov 4, '20 | Racism has been a dealmaker. | 1.2× | 0 | 7.1k | 988 | 36 |
| 91 | Jun 11, '20 | Looking at the @nytimes bestseller lists this week, and I don’t know if it has ever had more books on racism. I’m heartened to join these incredible writers with 6 entries and 3 bo | 1.2× | 0 | 6.7k | 964 | 143 |
| 92 | Dec 6, '19 | People who see the Confederate flag as symbolizing service, and sacrifice and heritage have hijacked history. | 1.2× | 0 | 6.2k | 1.2k | 17 |
| 93 | Dec 12, '21 | This is emblematic of the systemic disrespect and disregard for teachers. | 1.2× | 0 | 6.2k | 1k | 66 |
| 94 | Sep 27, '20 | We should take it as a compliment when people attack us personally or when people misrepresent our work. Because that means they can’t challenge what we are actually saying or writ | 1.2× | 0 | 6.2k | 721 | 79 |
| 95 | Sep 30, '20 | One thing should be crystal clear after watching last night’s debate: the Trump campaign is hardly focused on winning over voters. The Trump campaign sees only one path to victory: | 1.2× | 0 | 6.4k | 1.1k | 18 |
| 96 | Jun 23, '20 | In 2000, I graduated from a VA high school named after a Confederate General. Now, there’s talk of changing the name. There’s campaign for Ibram X. Kendi High School, and I’m in sh | 1.1× | 0 | 6.3k | 712 | 29 |
| 97 | Aug 18, '20 | “It is what it is.” | 1.0× | 0 | 6.5k | 556 | 14 |
| 98 | Mar 17 | Today, as my newest book is released, nearly three-fourths of the world’s people live under authoritarian rule. Many of those authoritarian rulers are pushing a conspiracy theory t | 1.0× | 13k | 51 | 14 | 7 |
| 99 | Feb 2, '22 | I am a product of a HBCU, where I learned how to think and write and be me. It is tearing up my heart seeing all these bomb threats. Our HBCU family is resilient. But we shouldn’t | 1.0× | 0 | 6.5k | 447 | 12 |
| 100 | Nov 8, '20 | Wow. She came out to Mary J. | 0.9× | 0 | 6.2k | 160 | 8 |
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