Very fortunate to share my story about debt with Heather Gillers and the The Wall Street Journal. It covers my journey, assesses the post-George Floyd moment, and even features an embarrassing memory about becoming president. Check it out.

wsj.com/finance/invest…

In American Historical Review, Destin Jenkins shows how US civil rights leaders sought to put pressure on the municipal bond market as a means to lever indebted southern municipalities into eliminating racial segregation.

Read more:
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.Destin Jenkins uncovers the financial knowledge and bond market campaigns of the civil rights movement, reconstructing the attempts to politicize bond market transactions and efforts to place the economic certainty of segregation in doubt. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

BIG NEWS!
I'm hosting a NEW PODCAST from Convergence Magazine on Debt and Race in America. It's called INDEBTED, and I hope you'll subscribe! The first episode drops this Thursday! Find it at the link below or wherever you find podcasts.

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Our beautiful cover for Issue No. 2 created by Dakarai Akil (Dakarai Akil).

A growing body of research shows that when Black towns and cities try to borrow money on the bond market, they pay higher interest rates than their white counterparts. motherjones.com/environment/20…

'That’s the generative part about geography—making it an axis of analysis alongside time opens up the reality that multiple temporalities can coincide,' and 'also opens up what we might understand as a kind of Black spatial politics or a Black spatial tradition.'

Great convo 👏🏾

Great chronicling of the fascinating and urgent work in Chicago.

Here oscar perry abello details how folks in the windy city are trying to work through a progressive politics of debt.

'Information begets ideas. Ideas expand imaginations. Imaginations fuel social change. The best ideas are rooted in action and practice.' - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Jen Parker 🔥

What a beginning for Hammer & Hope.

hammerandhope.org/article/issue-…

Join us in October for our conference, 'Reparations and the Right to the City' - submission deadline is February 20! urbanhistory.org/pittsburgh2023

We are extremely thrilled to announce a collaboration with UChicagoPress: a new book series on political economy and the critical social sciences.

Edited by Mehrsa Baradaran, @danielagabor, Destin Jenkins, Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social, Adam Tooze, and Melinda Cooper.

phenomenalworld.org/events/announc…

Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0 justmoney.org/money-as-a-dem…