January 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I’m honored to be included among this year’s cohort of @time #Closers working to close the racial equity gap. I’m honored to be in the arena with YOU too! time.com/collection/c...
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#WeKeepUsSafe
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#WeKeepUsSafe
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’m honored to be included among this year’s cohort of @time #Closers working to close the racial equity gap. I’m honored to be in the arena with YOU too! time.com/collection/c...
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#WeKeepUsSafe
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#WeKeepUsSafe
Shout out to @real_sharpton @ebonieriley and the @nationalactionnetwork team for a meaningful and memorable #MLK Breakfast. Thankful for the reminder that we’re all we got and we’re more than enough! #LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
January 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Shout out to @real_sharpton @ebonieriley and the @nationalactionnetwork team for a meaningful and memorable #MLK Breakfast. Thankful for the reminder that we’re all we got and we’re more than enough! #LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
I’m humbled & honored to be named to the @time-magazine.bsky.social 2025 Closers list. #LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾 time.com/7210619/davi...
David J. Johns Won't Stop Fighting for Queer Black Youth
The CEO and executive director of the National Black Justice Collective looks to figures like Bayard Rustin for inspiration.
time.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’m humbled & honored to be named to the @time-magazine.bsky.social 2025 Closers list. #LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾 time.com/7210619/davi...
Teach them well, let them lead the way. #TeachTheBabies #LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Teach them well, let them lead the way. #TeachTheBabies #LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
We keep us safe.
Now is the time to (better) engage with those invested in defending democracy by meeting the needs of the people (not oligarchs).
If you’re not connected to the World Health Organization now’s the time.
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
Now is the time to (better) engage with those invested in defending democracy by meeting the needs of the people (not oligarchs).
If you’re not connected to the World Health Organization now’s the time.
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
January 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We keep us safe.
Now is the time to (better) engage with those invested in defending democracy by meeting the needs of the people (not oligarchs).
If you’re not connected to the World Health Organization now’s the time.
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
Now is the time to (better) engage with those invested in defending democracy by meeting the needs of the people (not oligarchs).
If you’re not connected to the World Health Organization now’s the time.
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#POV you join @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected. #LetsALLGetFree #Politics #Policy
June 29, 2026 at 9:48 PM
#POV you join @johnfugelsang.bsky.social to discuss the barriers Black LGBTQ+ candidates face before they even get elected. #LetsALLGetFree #Politics #Policy
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Discomfort is by design — always has been. Many are in the arena. The question is who joins them. #VotingRights #AllBlackLivesMatter
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights
June 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Discomfort is by design — always has been. Many are in the arena. The question is who joins them. #VotingRights #AllBlackLivesMatter
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
This is not a backdrop. This is the war. #LetsALLGetFree #VotingRights
The CBC sent a letter to 300+ corporations asking whether their 2021 voting rights commitments still hold. After Louisiana v. Callais, silence isn't neutral — it's complicity. drdavidjjohns.substack.com #LetsALLGetFree
June 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The CBC sent a letter to 300+ corporations asking whether their 2021 voting rights commitments still hold. After Louisiana v. Callais, silence isn't neutral — it's complicity. drdavidjjohns.substack.com #LetsALLGetFree
“A lot of this sh*t ain’t new,” I said. “The tactics, the strategy, the language, the racism, the white supremacy of it all. We might call it something that feels like new birtherism, but it’s white supremacy at its core.”
www.theroot.com/viral-questi...
#LinkInBio
#Explore
#LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
www.theroot.com/viral-questi...
#LinkInBio
#Explore
#LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
People Are Asking 'Can Slavery Come Back Under Trump?' One Popular Expert's Answer Will Blow...Your... Mind
Dr. David Johns weighs in on how slavery would even be possible 160 years after its Constitutional abolishment.
www.theroot.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:22 PM
“A lot of this sh*t ain’t new,” I said. “The tactics, the strategy, the language, the racism, the white supremacy of it all. We might call it something that feels like new birtherism, but it’s white supremacy at its core.”
www.theroot.com/viral-questi...
#LinkInBio
#Explore
#LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
www.theroot.com/viral-questi...
#LinkInBio
#Explore
#LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
Brea reminds us to “see what the land teaches you” and explains why, in love.
Listen, like, & subscribe wherever you access your favorite pods. 🎙️ (also, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...)
#Land #Faming #BlackFarmers #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
Listen, like, & subscribe wherever you access your favorite pods. 🎙️ (also, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...)
#Land #Faming #BlackFarmers #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
December 3, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Brea reminds us to “see what the land teaches you” and explains why, in love.
Listen, like, & subscribe wherever you access your favorite pods. 🎙️ (also, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...)
#Land #Faming #BlackFarmers #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
Listen, like, & subscribe wherever you access your favorite pods. 🎙️ (also, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...)
#Land #Faming #BlackFarmers #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
Jamilah Lemieux wrote the book Toni Morrison told us to write. Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging is out now.
Go listen. Go get it.
🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
Go listen. Go get it.
🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
May 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Jamilah Lemieux wrote the book Toni Morrison told us to write. Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging is out now.
Go listen. Go get it.
🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
Go listen. Go get it.
🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
May 2025, Carla Hayden was dismissed from the post by the occupant, with no explanation given. His “press secretary” lied talmbout lending children’s books when the Library of Congress isn’t in the book lending business. Don’t that sound suspicious?!?
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
May 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
May 2025, Carla Hayden was dismissed from the post by the occupant, with no explanation given. His “press secretary” lied talmbout lending children’s books when the Library of Congress isn’t in the book lending business. Don’t that sound suspicious?!?
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
The instinct in movement work is to sequence. That sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting for over 36 years. -Dreisen Heath on #TeachTheBabies #Podcast—& why this Freedom Summer, we put the whole menu on the table. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1Kxy... #HR40 #LetsALLGetFree
July 1, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The instinct in movement work is to sequence. That sequencing logic has kept H.R.40 waiting for over 36 years. -Dreisen Heath on #TeachTheBabies #Podcast—& why this Freedom Summer, we put the whole menu on the table. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1Kxy... #HR40 #LetsALLGetFree
"We want the whole menu." This Freedom Summer, NBJC + Dreisen Heath of the Why We Can't Wait Reparations Network produced Equity Week in DC. H.R.40 has waited since 1989—we don't have forty more years. New ep of Teach the Babies is live. Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree
June 30, 2026 at 1:44 PM
"We want the whole menu." This Freedom Summer, NBJC + Dreisen Heath of the Why We Can't Wait Reparations Network produced Equity Week in DC. H.R.40 has waited since 1989—we don't have forty more years. New ep of Teach the Babies is live. Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj... #LetsALLGetFree
Take away the affirming space and what do we lose?
Dr. Terrell Winder didn't hedge. Lives. People lost to their circumstances.
We have enough history to know that closing space and pulling resources helps NO ONE.
open.spotify.com/episode/4MSM...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
Dr. Terrell Winder didn't hedge. Lives. People lost to their circumstances.
We have enough history to know that closing space and pulling resources helps NO ONE.
open.spotify.com/episode/4MSM...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
August 20, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Take away the affirming space and what do we lose?
Dr. Terrell Winder didn't hedge. Lives. People lost to their circumstances.
We have enough history to know that closing space and pulling resources helps NO ONE.
open.spotify.com/episode/4MSM...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
Dr. Terrell Winder didn't hedge. Lives. People lost to their circumstances.
We have enough history to know that closing space and pulling resources helps NO ONE.
open.spotify.com/episode/4MSM...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
Truth Social is selling Wall Street early access to Trump's posts—up to $100,000/mth to read them first. Because his posts move markets. A presidential tollbooth. And it's probably legal, by design.
Follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
Follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
July 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Truth Social is selling Wall Street early access to Trump's posts—up to $100,000/mth to read them first. Because his posts move markets. A presidential tollbooth. And it's probably legal, by design.
Follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
Follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
America is 250. The truth is older—built on stolen land, by stolen people, and still unpaid for. Fannie Lou Hamer asked in 1964: is this America? We're still answering.
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
July 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
America is 250. The truth is older—built on stolen land, by stolen people, and still unpaid for. Fannie Lou Hamer asked in 1964: is this America? We're still answering.
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
The most targeted officials in this country are invisible in the data meant to protect them. That is not a footnote—it's a policy failure.
#LetsALLGetFree
#LetsALLGetFree
57% spike in anti-LGBTQ incidents targeting elected officials in a single year. 181 documented incidents. No federal system to track what happens at the intersection of Blackness and LGBTQ+ identity.
Delegate Gabriel Acevero was physically confronted at a polling site on the cusp of Juneteenth by a man with documented anti-LGBTQ animus. His constituents voted anyway. And as I write, he is leading.
That is resistance. New Stack is live. 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-tried...
That is resistance. New Stack is live. 🔗 drdavidjjohns.substack.com/p/they-tried...
June 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
The most targeted officials in this country are invisible in the data meant to protect them. That is not a footnote—it's a policy failure.
#LetsALLGetFree
#LetsALLGetFree
Find your organizing home. Not the org—the people. Not tomorrow. Now.
🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu...
📖 Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu...
📖 Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
June 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Find your organizing home. Not the org—the people. Not tomorrow. Now.
🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu...
📖 Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Qbu...
📖 Stack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#LetsALLGetFree #TeachTheBabies
This book opened a real conversation between my sister and me about her experience as a Black single mother. That's what the best books do.
Go listen. Read the Stack. Get the book.
📖 Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
Go listen. Read the Stack. Get the book.
📖 Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
May 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This book opened a real conversation between my sister and me about her experience as a Black single mother. That's what the best books do.
Go listen. Read the Stack. Get the book.
📖 Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
Go listen. Read the Stack. Get the book.
📖 Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drdavidj...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
Our conversation on Teach the Babies goes deep—the Moynihan Report, who gets protected and who gets punished & what every-other-weekend costs, and what the culture owes Black women.
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
May 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Our conversation on Teach the Babies goes deep—the Moynihan Report, who gets protected and who gets punished & what every-other-weekend costs, and what the culture owes Black women.
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3SVl...
#TeachTheBabies #BlackSingleMother #JamilahLemieux #LetsALLGetFree
ICYMI: Carla Hayden served as the 14th librarian of Congress. She was both the first Black person and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016, she was the first professional librarian to hold the post since 1974.
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ICYMI: Carla Hayden served as the 14th librarian of Congress. She was both the first Black person and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016, she was the first professional librarian to hold the post since 1974.
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
#WorkWoke #DefendDemocracy #LetsALLGetFree ✊🏾
Read more @www.stateoftheppl.com/BlackPapers
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾 #stateofthepplpowertour #BlackPapers
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾 #stateofthepplpowertour #BlackPapers
May 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Read more @www.stateoftheppl.com/BlackPapers
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾 #stateofthepplpowertour #BlackPapers
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾 #stateofthepplpowertour #BlackPapers
The @stateoftheppl.bsky.social power tour ATL rally is about to get started. www.facebook.com/share/v/18k1...
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
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April 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The @stateoftheppl.bsky.social power tour ATL rally is about to get started. www.facebook.com/share/v/18k1...
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾
#LetsAllGetFree ✊🏾