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NEW EPISODE IN YOUR FEED! ��Being Dope, Staying Unruly: Why we need Hip Hop to Understand Power, Build Power and Fight the Power

Before he was a scholar, journalist, and podcast host, Chenjerai was a rapper. And this week’s show is all about how hip-hop is connected to our larger political struggles.

First, Chenjerai interviews his friend, the scholar, rapper, and UVA professor A.D. Carson. He’s the author of Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir. In their conversation, they talk about what it means to take rap seriously on its own terms and why it’s worthy of scholarly analysis, and how A.D’s work applies to the Afroman case.

Second, Chenjerai talks with RodStarz, ½ ofthe political rap duo Rebel Diaz. They discuss the group’s history, their political education, the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, and how they understood hip hop not just as music, but as actual infrastructure.

Intro 175-B is not about safety. It expands police power, threatens free expression, and chills protest in educational spaces.
As a professor andmember of National AAUP, NYU-AAUP, and as New Yorker and father I joined students, education workers, and community members and somelocal politicians in urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto this bill. Education and democracy depend on the right to dissent.
Veto Intro 175-B.

“A lot of this book is about solidarity at its core, the beauty of solidarity, but also the fragility and the failures of solidarity and how often it shatters, but also at the same time how it’s the only thing that can save us and stop us from this cycle of barbarism,” says the artist and writer @mollycrabapple about her new book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.”

It’s a deeply personal book, partially inspired by Crapapple’s great-grandfather, the Post-Impressionist artist Samuel Rothbort, and a sweeping history about how the simultaneous rise of political Zionism and the Jewish Labor Bund shaped the 20th century and beyond.
@chenjerai, a member of Hammer & Hope’s editorial team, sat down with Crabapple to discuss the book and its lessons for organizing against Zionism and for the left more broadly today.

Visit hammerandhope.org or tap the link in our bio to watch the full conversation.

From Coast to Coast: Narrative Power in Action!

Join Pillars of the Community at The People’s Forum for an exclusive NYC screening of California Story — a powerful documentary exposing gang documentation and surveillance laws targeting communities of color across California and the U.S.

With support from Pillars Fund, this urgent film travels from San Diego to New York, amplifying stories that challenge injustice and demand change.

🎬 Featuring voices like Dr. Shirley Weber, Dr. Cornel West, Rep. Sydney Kamlager, and Greg Moran, the film reveals how discriminatory policies have harmed communities and eroded trust — while highlighting storytelling as a tool for resistance and policy change.

🎤 Opening remarks by Director David Kuhn, followed by a panel with Linda Sarsour, Khalid Alexander, Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, Dr. Elizabeth Hinton, and Tim Kornegay, connecting the film to NYC’s own history of surveillance and over-policing.

🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/may21nyc

When they say cut back, we say fight back!

We stand with higher ed workers at The New School.

#defendhighered #mayday2026
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On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

On May Day @cfuuaw joined members of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education to rally for workers rights at The New School, St John’s University, and at institutions across the sector. Organized to coincide with @centrallabornyc’s Washington Square rally, the event brought together faculty groups, politicians, and the wider community to advance a vision of higher education as a public good.

@jean.bae @siffertforny @brad.lander @nycmayor @jeremyvaron39 @psc_cuny @stjohnsaaup @aaupnational @nyuaaup @nycstudentunion @act_uaw7902 @nyu_gsoc_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @sens_uaw

📸 @glynisomeara @hanni_wang0823 @benedetoula @elisabeth.astrid

NEW EPISODE IN YOUR FEED!!
Here at Unruly Subjects you know we’re celebrating May Day ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
So this week, we’re featuring two interviews that help us think through this critical question: What does it take to build the kind of power that can actually meet this political moment?
Got a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself?
Take the Unruly Subjects Audience Survey.

In This Episode:
First, Chenjerai interviews three major labor leaders: Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a national vice president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT); Jessica Tang, president of AFT Massachusetts and former president of the Boston Teachers Union; and Carl Rosen, who recently retired as general president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Todd, Jessica, and Carl talk about May Day as more than symbolism. They talk about it as part of building the infrastructure we may need later: labor, civil society, public institutions, community organizations, immigrant rights groups, education workers, and ordinary people finding ways to move together before a crisis hits.
Second, Our Unruly homie - the scholar and poet Demetrius Noble - talks with Carla Harris, a public school teacher and organizer in Guilford County, North Carolina. They discuss the everyday realities of working in public education and also about organizing in practical terms: how you talk to a coworker who is tired, scared, skeptical, or has never been asked to act before.
Follow Chenjerai on Instagram @chenjerai and follow Unruly Subjects @unrulysubjectspod.
Unruly Subjects is also now on YouTube! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UnrulySubjects

NEW EPISODE IN YOUR FEED!!
Here at Unruly Subjects you know we’re celebrating May Day ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
So this week, we’re featuring two interviews that help us think through this critical question: What does it take to build the kind of power that can actually meet this political moment?
Got a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself?
Take the Unruly Subjects Audience Survey.
 
In This Episode:
First, Chenjerai interviews three major labor leaders: Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a national vice president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT); Jessica Tang, president of AFT Massachusetts and former president of the Boston Teachers Union; and Carl Rosen, who recently retired as general president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Todd, Jessica, and Carl talk about May Day as more than symbolism. They talk about it as part of building the infrastructure we may need later: labor, civil society, public institutions, community organizations, immigrant rights groups, education workers, and ordinary people finding ways to move together before a crisis hits.
Second, Our Unruly homie - the scholar and poet Demetrius Noble - talks with Carla Harris, a public school teacher and organizer in Guilford County, North Carolina. They discuss the everyday realities of working in public education and also about organizing in practical terms: how you talk to a coworker who is tired, scared, skeptical, or has never been asked to act before.
Follow Chenjerai on Instagram @chenjerai and follow Unruly Subjects @unrulysubjectspod.
Unruly Subjects is also now on YouTube! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UnrulySubjects

NEW EPISODE IN YOUR FEED!!
Here at Unruly Subjects you know we’re celebrating May Day ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
So this week, we’re featuring two interviews that help us think through this critical question: What does it take to build the kind of power that can actually meet this political moment?
Got a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself?
Take the Unruly Subjects Audience Survey.
 
In This Episode:
First, Chenjerai interviews three major labor leaders: Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a national vice president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT); Jessica Tang, president of AFT Massachusetts and former president of the Boston Teachers Union; and Carl Rosen, who recently retired as general president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Todd, Jessica, and Carl talk about May Day as more than symbolism. They talk about it as part of building the infrastructure we may need later: labor, civil society, public institutions, community organizations, immigrant rights groups, education workers, and ordinary people finding ways to move together before a crisis hits.
Second, Our Unruly homie - the scholar and poet Demetrius Noble - talks with Carla Harris, a public school teacher and organizer in Guilford County, North Carolina. They discuss the everyday realities of working in public education and also about organizing in practical terms: how you talk to a coworker who is tired, scared, skeptical, or has never been asked to act before.
Follow Chenjerai on Instagram @chenjerai and follow Unruly Subjects @unrulysubjectspod.
Unruly Subjects is also now on YouTube! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UnrulySubjects

NEW EPISODE IN YOUR FEED!!
Here at Unruly Subjects you know we’re celebrating May Day ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
So this week, we’re featuring two interviews that help us think through this critical question: What does it take to build the kind of power that can actually meet this political moment?
Got a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself?
Take the Unruly Subjects Audience Survey.
 
In This Episode:
First, Chenjerai interviews three major labor leaders: Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a national vice president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT); Jessica Tang, president of AFT Massachusetts and former president of the Boston Teachers Union; and Carl Rosen, who recently retired as general president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Todd, Jessica, and Carl talk about May Day as more than symbolism. They talk about it as part of building the infrastructure we may need later: labor, civil society, public institutions, community organizations, immigrant rights groups, education workers, and ordinary people finding ways to move together before a crisis hits.
Second, Our Unruly homie - the scholar and poet Demetrius Noble - talks with Carla Harris, a public school teacher and organizer in Guilford County, North Carolina. They discuss the everyday realities of working in public education and also about organizing in practical terms: how you talk to a coworker who is tired, scared, skeptical, or has never been asked to act before.
Follow Chenjerai on Instagram @chenjerai and follow Unruly Subjects @unrulysubjectspod.
Unruly Subjects is also now on YouTube! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@UnrulySubjects

To address abuses of police power, among both local and federal agencies, we need to understand the history. @chenjerai, host of Crooked Media's "Empire City," will put today's headlines in context this Tuesday night. Join him and his guests, Matt Katz and Elizabeth Hinton for a Q&A.

To address abuses of police power, among both local and federal agencies, we need to understand the history. @chenjerai, host of Crooked Media's "Empire City," will put today's headlines in context this Tuesday night. Join him and his guests, Matt Katz and Elizabeth Hinton for a Q&A.

To address abuses of police power, among both local and federal agencies, we need to understand the history. @chenjerai, host of Crooked Media's "Empire City," will put today's headlines in context this Tuesday night. Join him and his guests, Matt Katz and Elizabeth Hinton for a Q&A.

To address abuses of police power, among both local and federal agencies, we need to understand the history. @chenjerai, host of Crooked Media's "Empire City," will put today's headlines in context this Tuesday night. Join him and his guests, Matt Katz and Elizabeth Hinton for a Q&A.

To address abuses of police power, among both local and federal agencies, we need to understand the history. @chenjerai, host of Crooked Media's "Empire City," will put today's headlines in context this Tuesday night. Join him and his guests, Matt Katz and Elizabeth Hinton for a Q&A.

NEW EP OF UNRULY SUBJECTS IN YOUR FEED!!
Hey y’all I’m super proud of this episode and still sort of amazed and grateful that we made it happen. ��This week, we look back at the martial law crisis that happened in South Korea in 2024, the Union-led opposition that organized swiftly, and the nationwide general strike that helped played a key role in defeating martial law and spurring mass mobilization.

I interview Mikyung Ryu, the International Director of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) about what happened on December 3rd, 2024, how labor reacted, what broader forces made the response possible, and what lessons people in the United States might learn from South Korea’s fight to stop an authoritarian turn.��And at the end of the episode I’m not saying you’re going to hear me sing but….😬😂💪🏿💪🏿

NEW EP OF UNRULY SUBJECTS IN YOUR FEED!!
Hey y’all I’m super proud of this episode and still sort of amazed and grateful that we made it happen. 

This week, we look back at the martial law crisis that happened in South Korea in 2024, the Union-led opposition that organized swiftly, and the nationwide general strike that helped played a key role in defeating martial law and spurring mass mobilization.

I interview Mikyung Ryu, the International Director of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) about what happened on December 3rd, 2024, how labor reacted, what broader forces made the response possible, and what lessons people in the United States might learn from South Korea’s fight to stop an authoritarian turn.

And at the end of the episode I’m not saying you’re going to hear me sing but….😬😂💪🏿💪🏿