This comment about #BlackInTheIvory was a chilling realisation, and it's even worse in Linguistics

As a tiny beginning to the long task of offsetting that, here are 20 #BlackLinguists and language scholars you should be following on Twitter https://twitter.com/seefryar/status/1269945488465420288

Anne Charity Hudley ( @ACharityHudley) is a major figure in variationist sociolinguistics, and has written extensively about the language and culture in education, and on linguistics as a profession
#BlackLinguists

Nicole Patton Terry ( @TheDrPT) is technically a professor of Education, but her research focus is on literacy skills, language variation and phonemic awareness, which are equally central to linguistics
#BlackLinguists

Michel DeGraff ( @MichelDeGraff) is an authority on creolisation and creoles (especially Haitian Kreyòl) and on colonialism in language policy and education
#BlackLinguists

Hannah Gibson ( @itsthegibson) is a syntactician working on language variation, and has published extensively on the Bantu languages
#BlackLinguists

Clyde Ancarno ( @clydeancarno) works in corpus approaches to discourse and pragmatics, especially discourses of the natural world and media discourses
#BlackLinguists

Jamie A. Thomas ( @jamieisjames) is a sociocultural linguist and anthropologist, working on language and identity as well as the language of fear (and zombies!)
#BlackLinguists

Jessi Grieser ( @jessgrieser) works on the use of African-American English as an expression of intersectional identity, and on the language of fan communities
#BlackLinguists

Nicole Holliday ( @mixedlinguist) is a sociolinguist whose work focuses on how bi- and multiracial people use linguistic practices to reflect these identities
#BlackLinguists

Joseph Hill ( @jaceyhill) is a specialist on the African-American variety of American Sign Language, and the attitudes towards it in Deaf communities
#BlackLinguists

Duane G. Watson ( @duane_g_watson) is a psycholinguist whose work focuses on how people recognise and understand spoken prosody (stress, pitch, rhythm, intonation)
#BlackLinguists

Shivonne Gates ( @ShivGates) is a sociolinguist who's worked on how the way “Standard” English is taught at UK schools marginalises working class and ethnic minority students
#BlackLinguists

Marl'ene Edwin ( @ImoindaWorkshop) specialises in representations of Caribbean creoles in terms of both language and culture
#BlackLinguists

Kelly Wright ( @raciolinguistic) is an experimental sociolinguist whose work focuses on linguistic profiling and the racialisation of language in the media
#BlackLinguists

Kendra Calhoun ( @_kendracalhoun) works in sociocultural linguistics focusing on racial comedy as a discourse genre as well as Black activism
#BlackLinguists

Nandi Sims ( @nandisims) works on how ethnic and racial identities in US Black communities are manifested in language and how education can dispel negative ideologies about them
#BlackLinguists

Jamaal Muwwakkil ( @WordsByJamaal) is a sociocultural linguist whose focus is on political language
#BlackLinguists

Aris M Clemons ( @ClemonsAris) works on race making and Hispanic language performance in educational contexts
#BlackLinguists

Angelica Hill ( @whhatduyumean) is a formal semanticist working on modelling tense and aspect in natural language
#BlackLinguists

JPB Gerald ( @JPBGerald) works on language and race, focusing on how to decentre Whiteness in English teaching
#BlackLinguists

deandre miles-hercules ( @_ravensnest) is a sociocultural linguist working on language, identity and power in Black queer and trans communities
#BlackLinguists

As a rank-and-file academic perhaps you don't have influence on staff or student recruitment. You can still cite #BlackLinguists' work, include it in your reading lists, foreground it in your teaching and help decentre whiteness in the field

(Thanks to @AdamCSchembri, @Noun_Fraze and @VerbingNouns for helping me think about this)