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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

4 years

My academic journey started in the slow reading group at Lauderhill Elementary School. Now, I'm a tenured associate professor of political science at @HowardU .

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5 years

This Kayne church thing makes me uncomfortable. There, I said it.

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

Dear talented Black undergrads, Going straight to grad school for a PhD is a thing.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

Dear @cnn , I'd wake up and tune in daily to see @AndrewGillum , @angela_rye , @AprilDRyan , and @Bakari_Sellers working together to analyze this election. Please keep their panel going!

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

3 years

“I don’t think HBCUs prepare people for life in the real world.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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@keneshiagrant

2 years

Last day at @HowardU for a little while 😁 #AboutToPop #PregnantProf

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

4 years

Microsoft Word to me: geez🙄we're already saving your document! So... you don't have to keep pressing the "save" buttons. Me to MSword: when I first met you, our relationship was "save every two minutes or perish. So..." #OldMillenial

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

4 years

Shout out to The Great Migration. Midnight Train to Georgia tells the story of a migrant who, like many, decided to go back to the South after finding life was not what they expected when they left. #verzuzbattle

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@keneshiagrant

1 year

My best work 💕

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@keneshiagrant

2 years

As DC’s cherry blossoms were coming into in full bloom a few weeks ago, so was my baby girl. My journey to motherhood was long and winding but also exciting and blessed. I look forward writing about it at length later. #PregnancyAfterFibroids #SingleMotherByChoice #NotByAccident

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

4 years

As a person who is both Black and woman, I felt like something was missing from the conversation about the Black women on the Vice Presidential shortlist... Check out my first op-ed in The Washington Post 👇🏾

Perspective | The real reason people object to Biden’s veep choices: Racism

The Black women on the shortlist are up against a double standard.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Them: Don’t go to a Black college because it won’t prepare you for the real world. @DrBrandonHogan , me, and Black college grads everywhere right now:

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

My journey with fibroids and, by extension, infertility: a long 🧵

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

@alixabeth Outside DC, Barista at Peet's. Around DC, lobbyist for the black bean canners association of America.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

I am very much here for the specific and clear references to Black people and Black women.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

The @HowardU Pre-PhD Summer Enrichment Program is looking for talented students who are interested in getting a PhD in the humanities or social sciences. Our 4-week program provide FREE Kaplan GRE prep, graduate-level courses, housing, food, transportation in DC, and a stipend.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Yay!!! I’m so happy to have made it into tenure-land at the same time as my colleague-friend, @Dr_NMCarter !

Howard U Office of Faculty Development

@HUFacDev

4 years

Congratulations to some of the newly promoted and tenured faculty in COAS! @Dr_NMCarter @keneshiagrant #Congratulations #Promotion #Tenure #AssociateProfs #FacultyDevelopment #HUYouKnow #HowardForward @HowardU @HU_COAS

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3 years

Me, editing my own writing: This paragraph is great. It just doesn't belong in this document anymore. And, because I am certain I will need it again some day (read: I am a word-hoarder), it's going to live in a different document called "scraps" maybe to be seen again next year.

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5 years

Proud moment for me today at @HowardU !

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6 years

Howard University is an institution of higher learning, not a dog park.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

The clock tower at @HowardU just played Lift Ev’ry Voice. I love this place!

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@keneshiagrant

7 years

PSA: Send your kids to a Historically Black College or University, so we can love on them. It'll change their life for the better. Promise.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

This energy @KamalaHarris is giving mirrors what I see from well prepared @HowardU students all the time. That prepared Bison swag is a sight to behold!

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Ferguson, MO is a suburb. (Micheal Brown) Kinosha, WI is a suburb. (Jacob Blake) Sanford, FL is a suburb. (Trayvon Martin)

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@keneshiagrant

6 years

When you're a whole PhD and working as a professor, but you're also from around the way... #ProfLife #iLookLikeaProfessor #ProfInJs #Cav4s @Jumpman23

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

Just now on The @HowardU Yard: The first notes of Before I Let Go break through the hum of the nearby conversations. Students arrange themselves in a block formation. Frankie Beverly sings, "You make me happy!" Students proceed to Electric Slide across the steps of Childers Hall.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

I’m 37 years old today. Out with @DrBrandonHogan , enjoying DC (removing my mask for photos and beverages).

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@keneshiagrant

2 years

If you got the FAMU dunks, but you didn’t go to FAMU, I don’t like you. And if you post a resale link on this tweet, I’m reporting you to @Nike . #BigMad #WhoGotEm

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

I'm a @FAMU_1887 Rattler 'till I die; I bleed orange and green!!! 🐍🧡💚

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@keneshiagrant

2 years

#Halloween2022 Keneshia as @Beyonce and introducing… Blossom the Blastocyst as Blue Ivy (Although Blossom as been a fetus for quite a few weeks now)

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Researching the numbers of HBCU grads in Congress for an interview today. Guess which schools had the most members serving during the last session... 💁🏾‍♀️ #MyFaves @FAMU_1887 @HowardU 🧡💚❤️💙

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

Getting fully funded for a PhD is also a thing. Don't let the idea of cost keep you from applying. Some programs give you a stipend that you can use to pay for your housing, food, and other expenses. You might not be ballin' but, depending on the school, you may not be struggling

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

I dream of a world where all the Black movers and shakers spend significant time, on campus, pouring into HBCU students.

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

5 years

My book, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century, is now available for pre-order!

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

5 years

I'm happy to spend the next few weeks with @HowardU 's Pre-PhD Summer Enrichment Cohort. These future PhDs in humanities and social sciences take courses in GRE prep, philosophy, Africana studies, and research methods.

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

5 years

Dear fellow political scientists... I am giving credit to my @HowardU students who visit #APSA19 @APSAtweets this week(end). They get extra credit for photos with scholars. If you have time, please be kind, tell them about your work, and take a selfie with them :)

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Remember that time Herman Cain died because he caught The Rona at a Trump rally?

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@keneshiagrant

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Great Migrations: A People on the Move by @HenryLouisGates airs Tues, Jan 28 at 9/8c on @PBS and tells the story of how African American movement in the United States reshaped American culture & politics. I’m honored to be a part of it! #GreatMigrationsPBS

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

7 years

My painting is finished. I am proud.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

So... one can get arrested for being out after curfew but not for being accessory to murder? Arrested for standing in the wrong location while you report the news, but not for failing to prevent your coworker from killing in cold blood. 🗣FOH

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

My book is up on the @TempleUnivPress webpage!!! The Introduction is available to read, too!!! Check it out 👇🏾 _____ The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century

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5 years

This pandemic is teaching me lots about understandings of poverty in university communities.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

@jonmladd @meghan_daum

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

My uncle--Robert Grant, Jr.-- died of COVID-19 very early this morning. I mention this #OnHere to add to the chorus of people trying to drive home the idea that actual people (humans just like you, as you're reading this) are dying over dumb shit.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

Black DC is magical place. I am happy to make a life here. That's it. That's the tweet.

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

6 years

A student just used "PERIODT!" in a paper. They did it in a manner that is true to the culture and yet grammatical. I'll allow it.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

Am I the only professor of political science who has ever been dropped from an umbrella insurance for "political writing?" If not, who do y'all use? @GEICO and @Travelers are planning to drop me because I wrote a book about The Great Migration and the Democratic Party.

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@keneshiagrant

2 months

All these Black women representing states we don’t traditionally think of as Black in the delegate roll call got me in here with my eyes sweating 🥹 #DNC2024

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

🎉I am happy share that I won a @ssrc_org An American Dilemma for the 21st Century Grant to support research on my next book!🎉

SSRC

@ssrc_org

3 years

The SSRC is proud to announce the recipients of the An American Dilemma for the 21st Century grants: @keneshiagrant , @rjemigh , @rajivatbarnard , & @WVillalongo . The grants support studies of the ongoing impact of Gunnar Myrdal’s "An American Dilemma."

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

6 years

Dancing with my boo on The Yard :)

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

Some of our ideas about folks like us "going to get their PhDs" include going later in life/going while working/ going while managing a family. That's a noble route, but you may be able to take a different path-- you could go straight through.

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@keneshiagrant

3 months

"Harris’ father’s people got dropped off in Jamaica. Mine got dropped off in Haiti. The African diaspora is huge, and it is worldwide, so to suggest that a Jamaican is not African, or connected to Africa, is not acknowledging the vestiges of slavery."

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing a flurry...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, is facing a reprise of attacks from some

www.politifact.com

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Does he not feel this fly? Am I in the matrix?!

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Keneshia Grant, Ph.D.

@keneshiagrant

7 years

On a silly note: Responding to a challenge from my homegirl (also a professor), with a remix called "For The Diss" short for dissertation.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

We're flying a flag. #RobertFuller #MalcolmHarsch

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

Dear Howard students, @HowardU has an agreement with Microsoft that will allow you to download the office suite. Please do this today.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

I REPRESENT Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University October 3rd, 1887 WHAT!!! Happy Founders' Day, Rattlers! @FAMU_1887 🐍

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@keneshiagrant

6 years

*blast a Beyonce song* *dance in the living room* *re-read email* *repeat*

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

I was happy to spend some time with @krystalball , @esaagar , and @GabbyOrr_ at Rising @HillTVLive , talking about the 2020 election this morning:

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

Having works like #StoriesWeTell is important to educate the public, but also to create a space where women who are going through can see themselves and their stories represented. Thank you @SheinelleJones and @andregaines for your work telling these important stories.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

. @DrBrandonHogan and I had a great time looking for our home on House Hunters. Shout out to our Realtor, @JasonLallis , who worked hard to get us a good deal! Check out the episode here:

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@keneshiagrant

8 years

This is Tishaura Tishaura is woke AF Tishaura is not afraid to correct folks in their sleep Tishaura is running for mayor Be like Tishaura

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

In good news, I saved a large number of historical newspaper articles about the Black elected officials in Chicago, NYC, & Detroit from 1915-1965. Organized by name & location of elected official... If this is of interest to a young scholar out there, I'm happy to dropbox it all.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

@KAYXSUU One of my FAMU classmates was 65 at graduation. My oldest student in one of my FAMU classes was 45. @HowardU ’s @HowardPolitics just graduated a person who took a 20 year hiatus. Come on through, we’re ready for you.

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@keneshiagrant

2 years

When grading, do you ever feel like someone put "the answer" to the final exam question in the class GroupMe (because you've now read 43 answers that are all bad in the same way).

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5 years

🗣not all Black people live in urban areas!

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@keneshiagrant

6 years

Finally, this is a friendly reminder of your greatness. If you read about those opportunities, thought about applying, & didn't bc you questioned your greatness, I am explicitly asking you to APPLY ANYWAY! We can't affirm your greatness if you don't first introduce yourself!

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

As night falls, I keep thinking about how Breonna Taylor should be somewhere turning up for her 27th bday.

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@keneshiagrant

8 years

Happy President Day! Yes, president in the singular.

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@keneshiagrant

6 years

I just poured by soul into a letter of recommendation. Be the kind of student who makes a professor happy to spend their time writing for you as if their own happiness depends on your success.

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

On day 4 of this amazing week at The Mecca, ⁦ @VP ⁩ Harris came to ⁦ @HowardU ⁩ to share ⁦ @TheDemocrats ⁩ plan to ensure voting rights for every American.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

One of my proudest moments at @HowardU ! Now loading...

Howard University

@HowardU

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We welcome @AndrewGillum to campus as he joins @keneshiagrant ’s State & Local Government course to discuss what it means to be “Young, Gifted and Black.” #HUPO2019

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I'm quoted here, along with the brilliant @meganfrancis , and a host of hard-working activists who are fighting for substantive changes to the system of policing in our nation.

Police take a knee. Mayor paints a mural. But activists still see 'waffling'

Some of the most important police reform could happen at the local level, where activists say mayors and police chiefs are moving too slowly on making change.

www.latimes.com

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Imagine having the idea to storm the US Capitol and not being worried, at all, that the police would shoot you dead where you stand for having the nerve to roll up on the seat of government like you own the place.

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

. @SyracuseU students shouldn't have to stage a sit-in to get their administration and Board of Trustees to respond to the racist acts occurring on campus. Respond to the students, hire the outside monitor, and work to maintain a community where racism isn't tolerated #NotAgainSU

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

.⁦ @KamalaHarris ⁩ time!!! Shout out to the ⁦ @HowardU ⁩ Bison! #DemConvention2020

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

It’s hard to describe the manifold ways @FAMU_1887 changed my life for the better. So many of the good things in my life come from my time at FAMU/what I learned there. I’ll always loudly sing FAMU’s praises because it means so much to me! 💚🧡 2001 KG, McGuinn Hall “selfie”👇🏾

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@keneshiagrant

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I learned to braid my own hair with weave this spring. I'm so excited about it, I've decided to update the hobbies section of my CV to include "Kanekalon weaving."

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4 years

It’s Kamala!!!! HU! YOU knoooooowww!!!!!!

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@keneshiagrant

7 years

The editorial board at Temple University Press gave my book the thumbs up today!!! We are one step closer to a bookshelf near you. #RelocationRealignment #TheGreatMigration #GreatMigrants #GoTime #TenureIsComing

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

Thanks for the rating! Shout out to my Sorors around the world @dstinc1913 ! Also to the @FAMU_1887 Rattlers & my Godson! 🤔 I need to get some @HowardU swag for my set up…

Room Rater

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3 years

Nice author’s setup. One copy of The Great Migration well displayed. Delta Sigma Theta. 9/10 @keneshiagrant

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@keneshiagrant

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Hello students I love and other ones too. The internet is permanent. Internet threats may be considered a crime called assault. Following through on such threats is a crime called battery.

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@keneshiagrant

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I have been writing a syllabus in my head for about 3 weeks. Finally typing it out today… The class is called “Problems in American Democracy,” we are going to focus on recent decisions in Colorado and Maine to bar Trump from state party ballots.

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@keneshiagrant

2 years

The Howard University Pre-PhD summer enrichment program started today!

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@keneshiagrant

7 months

Me in January: I want my students to build writing skills and be able to sustain an argument over five or ten pages, so they are ready for grad school! Me in late March: Who wrote this syllabus, and why didn’t they make the whole class multiple choice tests?! 🙄😅🤣

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

I know everyone thinks their puppy is the cutest puppy. But y'all!!! Look at our puppy! @DrBrandonHogan

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

Push through, book, you're almost there!

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

I went through a few docs until I found Dr. Shawn Davis-Wilensky, who was as interested as I was in understanding me and my fibroids. She wanted to collect data about my fibroids over time. Clearly, the nerd in me was like “Yeesss, Sis! Let’s do some science!”

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

The streets in DC are alive with Americans who are relieved to celebrate the news that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are headed to the White House!

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@keneshiagrant

5 years

I wanted to layer in some historical context (about dogs as weapons against Black bodies) to the argument about Howard University's Yard as a safe and sacred space:

Students say dog walkers on Howard campus are desecrating hallowed ground

The dog debate highlights the District’s struggles over race and gentrification.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@keneshiagrant

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I didn't get a fellowship for which I was a finalist 2x. A kind person in the org already told me why I may not get it, so I don't feel bad. I mention it #onhere to be among the folks who post the wins & the losses in hopes that we'll all be more kind to ourselves + each other.

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@keneshiagrant

4 years

Suburb here is code for “white neighborhood.”

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

I was taking a leisurely, first-of-the-month scroll through @audible_com when I found that *my* book is now available. I am so proud (and giddy)! 😁

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@keneshiagrant

3 years

So, the states where Black folks moved during the Great Migration are losing seats in Congress while the states where Black people are moving during the (current) Return Migration are picking up seats... My book proposal is looking back at me like