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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

Okay, again: Beware of Black people who don't like Black people.

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3 years

I been researching and discovered how I may have looked in the 19th century.

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3 years

What if I tell you that many Black people are READY to get the vaccine shot, but can’t because the vaccine is not available??

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3 years

What if you started to view academia as your "side hustle?"

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3 years

Wait, somebody who actually understands Black Liberation Theology is going to be in the United States Senate?

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Andre E. Johnson

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11 months

This little boy, with a speech impediment from North Memphis, is now a Full Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis. More later… #COMMStudyWithUs #NorfMemphis

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Andre E. Johnson

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So I woke up to an email from the president of the university that starts with "Upon the recommendation of the Provost, along with my endorsement, I am pleased to inform you that the University of Memphis Board of Trustees has approved your tenure and promotion

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Andre E. Johnson

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3 years

Wait, white doctors don’t know that Black patients are treated differently? They didn’t cover this in med school?

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

I remember when this lynching first happened, they were not going to charge anybody with anything. So, I am thankful for the activists who marched and stood with the Arbery family who brought attention to this lynching.

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

I am still looking for those massacres involving Black people killing white folks, burning their property, and utterly destroying their communities. I want to make sure I am balanced in my teaching.

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2 years

So, I guess we will find out if 48 pubs, 10 grants, 20 awards, over 200 presentations, 8 research appts/fellowships, and 14 Ph.D. students (w/4 graduating), while at the same time bearing witness against unjust systems will be enough. We will see.

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5 months

It says something about your voters if you can’t say slavery was the cause of the Civil War.

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3 years

Where are the people who great grandparents were part of the mob? Where are these interviews?? #TulsaRaceMassacre

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8 months

Tennessee, you have a REAL choice. The question is what will we do about it??

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

8 months

🗣️🎉JUST NOW: “I’m Gloria Johnson, and I’m running for U.S. Senate.” Huge cheer for @VoteGloriaJ as she announces her Blackburn challenge in KNOXVILLE.

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6 years

We have been trying to tell folks this for years.....

#StopCopCity

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6 years

“30 years ago, we were skinheads. You could identify us. We decided at that time to grow our hair out, trade in our boots for suits & we encouraged ppl to get jobs in law enforcement” Ex-White Supremacist on #60Minutes

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3 years

Can we talk about these “prestigious schools” who are graduating all of these conservatives who have issues with democracy??

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6 years

Instead be on the lookout for evangelical leaders to double down on their support for Trump. They will question the morals of #StormyDaniels while painting Trump as the victim.

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3 years

So why do so many people believe a “diversity hire” means unqualified?

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3 years

Wherever there has been a massacre, the police officers were involved. #TulsaRaceMassacre

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3 years

All I know is that people who supported the insurrection at the Capitol are still allowed to govern us. This is what it must have felt like during Reconstruction.

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4 years

Updated!! Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis.

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5 years

So it's really official. #Tenured

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2 years

Just left the funeral home helping my sister handle the arrangements for her first born child. As some of you know, last week my nephew, Michael Germany III was brutally shot and killed. As you can imagine, it has been a rough week.

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@solomonmissouri Reverend!

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5 years

Here's the problem: half of the folks that don't like Trump only wishes he would "act" more presidential. They have no problem with his policies.

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11 months

I am pleased to announce that I am the recipient of the 2023 @ccfamemphis Dean's Award for Outstanding Research. I would like to thank the committee my chair and my dean for their continued support of my research and scholarship. Thank you all!

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5 years

Did anyone else have a good graduate school experience?

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5 years

@TalbertSwan Again, say it with me...IT'S NOT A TRAINING ISSUE!!!

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10 months

I am pleased to announce that the College of Communication and Fine Arts at the University of Memphis named me the recipient of the Benjamin W. Rawlins Meritorious Professorship Award. I am truly grateful.

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10 months

So do you think, with affirmative action gone, that people will stop questioning Black people's competence?

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

I am pleased to finally announce that I will join @DigBlk as a Mellon Fellow. My research will center on studying the oratory of the Colored Convention Movement and facilitating a reading group that will examine the convention's speeches.

Andre Johnson - Center for Black Digital Research

digblk.psu.edu

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Andre E. Johnson

@aejohnsonphd

3 years

Is police reform possible?

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

3 years

NORTH CAROLINA: “Let’s be clear, This was an execution. His hands were on the steering wheel." — The family of #AndrewBrownJr reacts to seeing the body cam footage. #ElizabethCity Has declared a state of emergency.

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3 years

So this came yesterday...

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2 years

In 1925, Carter G. Woodson published a collection of speeches delivered by African Americans titled "Negro Orators and Their Orations." While Woodson’s work was the focus of my talk at #PAC2022 , he wasn't the first one to address Black oratory in a more structured way.

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4 years

Serious question: do you think police brag with each other on how much abuse they have gotten away with?

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Andre E. Johnson

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7 months

I have tried my best to stay grounded in what speaks to me and tried to open up avenues for others to follow. I hope I have done that. Thank you, committee, and all involved in selecting me for this prestigious award.

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3 years

We see you @AntheaButler with @JoyAnnReid on the @thereidout !

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Andre E. Johnson

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9 months

I am pleased to announce that I am the recipient of the College of Communication and Fine Arts Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research. It was announced publicly at the college retreat this past Friday. Sadly, I was not there, so my chairaccepted the award on my behalf.

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4 years

White people of faith who affirm #BlackLivesMatter , how are you doing??

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4 months

Listen. Maybe people will hear it this time.

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

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WATCH: “It’s time to take the Bible back from hypocrites.” This @JohnFugelsang rant on the actual message of Christ is worth keeping in mind as another Tennessee Legislative session begins.

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7 years

Isn't it a shame when ads promote inclusion, love and respecting humankind, they can also be interpreted as anti-Trump ads? #SuperBowl

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2 months

Will you help me congratulate Solomon Cochren on defending his dissertation prospectus, "Holler Back: The African American Rhetorical Tradition of Call and Response and The Montgomery Riverfront Brawl." #COMMStudyWithUs #BlackRhetoric #WhosNext #WeBuildingSomethingHere

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1 year

I foresee many parents not allowing their children to play football.

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Andre E. Johnson

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8 months

I am pleased to announce that I am the recipient of the @NatComm 2023 Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in Africana Communication. Here's what the committee thought about my scholarship: "Dr. Andre E. Johnson exemplifies the essence and spirit of

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11 months

Just thinking about how Nikki Haley’s education at her segregation academy was paid for by the income her parents receive teaching Black people at an HBCU and Black school district. Makes you wonder how they talked to and taught those students.

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5 months

I still think we underestimate the violence and outright brutality that happened to Black people during Reconstruction. My God!

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4 years

If we cared about the Fall, we would have done what we should have done in the Spring.

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1 year

I am honored to have a chapter in this book. “Democracy in America is Impossible”: The Pessimistic Prophecy of W. E. B. Du Bois in “Why I Won’t Vote.” You can preorder it here:

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3 years

I think it’s time for you to admit that the majority of the GOP senators are not afraid of Trump, support him because they liked what he did and stood for. Period.

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10 months

Remember when people lost their minds about this?

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happy 4th of July

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2 years

Correct me if I am wrong, but you still must cite your sources, right??

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Andre E. Johnson

@aejohnsonphd

10 months

I am the Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis. Celebration in full effect! #PBS1914 #Conclave2023 #OneHouston

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6 years

Just remember, #MikeHuckabee is a Christian and served for years as a pastor. He led a congregation. Makes you wonder what they heard all those years.

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 months

I am pleased to announce that I am the recipient of the Michael M. Osborn Teacher-Scholar Award. The award honors members who have balanced professional careers and achieved excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. I am truly grateful.

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Andre E. Johnson

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3 years

Well, I think I can share this now... Starting in January 2022, I am pleased to announce that I will serve as the incoming editor of the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric ().

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2 years

How long before white evangelicals start to push for a ban on teaching about the January 6 insurrection?

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3 years

There are still SBC pastors who believe I am cursed by Noah, but yet they want to lead reconciliation efforts.

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Andre E. Johnson

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6 years

We talk about how many people left the church, but today, I am wondering how many of us stayed because we discovered something called #BlackTheology ? #JamesCone

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Andre E. Johnson

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1 year

Students writing about historical figures and calling them by their first names in their essays make me cringe. Ex. Instead of "Hamer called on her audience..." I get, "Fannie called on her audience..." The same with Ida, Henry, Martin, Ella, and the rest.

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

I am pleased to announce that @amandanelledgar and I have signed a book contract with @upmiss to write and publish "The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement."

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Andre E. Johnson

@aejohnsonphd

4 years

So this happened yesterday... #NCA19 #CommStudyWithUs

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Andre E. Johnson

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4 years

I am pleased to announce that I am The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Scholar in Residence. I look forward to working with Daphene McFerren and the wonderful people at the Hooks Institute.

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4 years

It is hard for those who only know white evangelical theology to talk about race or understand racism. There is nothing in their theological understand that prepares them to deal with race. Many of them still believe in the inferiority of non-white people.

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3 years

50 years from now, people will look back on this time and say, "and they had a vaccine?"

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@aejohnsonphd

3 years

I am pleased to announce that the Religious Communication Association (RCA) selected "No Future in this Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner" as its Book of the Year. I am truly grateful and humbled about receiving this award.

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5 years

How do Christian schools talk or deal with racism? I ask this because many of them started as segregated academies that resisted the Brown decision. #ExposeChristianSchools

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9 years

If the protests tonight turns you away from the injustice in the death of #FreddieGray , you really never were sympathetic to his situation.

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3 years

Serious question: if it was up to a vote, what year would slavery been abolished?

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5 years

to the rank of Associate Professor." Well, I guess it's official, official now! Let the building continue!! #CommStudyWithUs #TheRiskPaidOff #TheGrindisReal #LayingtheGroundworkforFull

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6 months

Well, this happened today. This is the first academic award I received that recognizes both my commitment to scholarship and to the community. This one is special also because it honors my work in the #FreePervisPayne campaign. Thank you Spiritual Comm Division for “seeing me!”

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6 years

The first thing to do when debating white supremacists is not to debate with them.

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5 years

The same folks that have weddings and family reunions on plantations in America.

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5 months

So what Black event Navy Federal Credit Union going to sponsor to get back in “good graces?”

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3 years

I am pleased to announce that I am now the editor of the Studies in Communication, Culture, Race, and Religion series at Peter Lang. #TheGameDoneChangedAgain #COMMPublishWithUs #WhereIsYourBookProposal #WhyDontIHaveIt #YouStillPlaying

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3 years

So wait, as a governor you can promote anti-mask policies and downplay the virus, but yet ask for federal help when hospitals are full and you are staring at a health crisis? And nobody is calling for your resignation??

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

I am pleased to announce that I received the 2022 Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities from the University of Memphis. I am indeed grateful and thankful for this recognition. #COMMStudyWithUs

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10 months

Leadership!!

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

10 months

🔥WATCH: “TN is the birthplace of the Klan— their heirs run our government… There’s a timidity even with some of my Democratic colleagues. I’m not here to make friends, I’m here to make change.” @aliciagarza asked @brotherjones_ if Fascism is on the rise here. @Netroots_Nation

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4 years

So, over 82,000 words, 199 pages, and 520 endnotes later, the proofing is done and this manuscript is off to the publisher. Hopefully, the next time I see this, it will be a book. NOW I am nervous!!!

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Andre E. Johnson

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1 year

You may expel us, gentlemen, by your votes, today; but, while you do it, remember that there is a just God in Heaven, whose All-Seeing Eye beholds alike the acts of the oppressor and the oppressed, and who, despite the machinations of the wicked,

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9 months

Hey, just remember, you have to grade those assignments you are putting on the syllabus.

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2 months

So this happened today. I am truly honored!

Andre Johnson Honored for Distinguished Service in Africana Communication | The Journal of Blacks...

“I am indeed honored to receive this prestigious award named for a person who meant so much to the study of Communication," said Dr. Johnson. “My aim is to continue to serve and work in ways that not...

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Andre E. Johnson

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1 year

What writing goals do you have for 2023?

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Andre E. Johnson

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6 months

I am pleased to announce that I received the Spiritual Communication Division's Outstanding Mentor and Community Activism/Engagement/Service Award. I am particularly thankful because they selected me for this award for my work in the #FreePervisPayne campaign.

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11 months

A little love from the department.

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4 years

Serious question: why do police come to unarmed protesters in military gear, but come to armed “protesters” in their regular uniforms?

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Andre E. Johnson

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10 months

A little love from the department.

The Univ. of Memphis Department of Comm & Film

@UofMCOMM

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The Benjamin W. Rawlins, Jr. Meritorious Professorship Award is among the highest distinctions given to a College of CFA faculty member. The purpose of the Professorship is to provide a unique and invaluable opportunity to reward outstanding faculty within the College of CFA.

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3 years

The proofs are sent back and one day, you will be able to read this...Well, maybe...

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10 months

Y’all better stop debating or trying to reason with the state of Florida about Black History. They have an agenda and don’t care about facts.

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2 years

I will say more later about this and the gun violence that wrecks families all across this nation, but for now, yes, you may pray for me and my family.

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Andre E. Johnson

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2 years

I am pleased to announce that I am the recipient of the 2022 J. Donald Ragsdale award for mentoring. I would like to thank my current and former students and others who see me as a mentor. Therefore, if you can, I would love to see you here. #COMMStudyWithUs #SSCA2022

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Andre E. Johnson

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3 years

Remember how you used to think that if we just got the abuse and murder on camera that things would change?

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Andre E. Johnson

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4 years

To dispel the rumors, after much consideration and discussion with my family, I have decided not accept the job as president at Liberty University.

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3 years

I wonder if the leaders of the SBC watching this tonight? #BlackChurchPBS

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24 days

Wait, several students in my AA rhetoric class have never heard of Stokely Carmichael?

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2 years

So this happened today. More later...

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1 year

Will you please help me congratulate and celebrate my student Ayo M. Morton on defending her dissertation titled "Filling the Biblical Gap: Creating Sacred Rhetoric for Blues Women through Womanist Vernacular Discourse." #COMMStudyWithUs #WeBuildingSomethingHere

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5 years

Well I went from being tenured to being tear gassed.

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2 years

I am pleased to share that I am the recipient of the @rhetsoc Cheryl Geisler Award for Outstanding Mentor. This award honors individuals who during their careers have demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentoring through such activities as guiding, supporting,

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3 years

So wait, are we actually taking advice about race from the SBC? Really?

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