Mitch will resign on August 4th. Watch. 😒🤦🏾♂️
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Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
"Especially at a time when propaganda is rampant under the Trump 2.0 regime, it feels particularly crucial to ensure that those invested in Disability Justice are aware of what we owe to Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party."🫂 www.equitableforall.com/articles/cel...
Celebrating How Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party Paved the Way for Disability Justice
This newsletter post is the author's attempt at highlighting how Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party paved the way for Disability Justice, as she continues to reckon with the grave costs of Access ...
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Yikes, Rebecca!! 😒 I thought you were sharper than this. 🤦🏾♂️
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 4w agoSomebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...
This Afro-Brazilian Photographer Preserves the History of Black Resistance in Bahia Lázaro Roberto and the Zumví Archive weave memory and identity. hammerandhope.org/article/afro...
This Afro-Brazilian Photographer Preserves the History of Black Resistance in Bahia
Lázaro Roberto and the Zumví Archive weave memory and identity.
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The advent of reading transformed society, and its decline will bring about changes of the same magnitude, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. Can America—and civilization—survive the postliterate era? theatln.tc/l2Xk9ATe 🎨: The Atlantic
Top story: Every year, Inside Books Project sends around 40,000 free books to incarcerated men and women in correctional facilities around the state. But that vital work is threatened by a new rule in the prison system ...
Throwing the Book at Books in Prison
Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.
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Through four months, the US has spent $103 billion on the Iran War. An average of $860 million per day.
The real cost of the Iran War: $103 billion in 120 days
Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee last week, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought said the US had spent $30 billion on the Iran War.
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Thing is, people are gonna look at this and say it’s fringe. And it may be fringe to mention “white race” so explicitly. But it’s not fringe when evangelicals talk birth rates and use “Christian” and “civilization“ as code words for white, which is VERY mainstream.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 4w agoChristian influencer Sarah Elizabeth Tenney says she had six kids in seven years to "help the white race from going extinct." She's not trolling. She's serious. And she's far from alone. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
From our magazine by Hope Corrigan: The Inside Books Project, a nonprofit operated by volunteers, sends about 40,000 free books to prisoners each year. But their vital work is endangered by a new rule banning used and hardcover books.
Throwing the Book at Books in Prison
Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.
texasobserver.org
My client Prof. Willoughby-Herard heroically stood up for students and was assaulted by cops. Then UCI tried to fire her. The Committee recommended unpaid suspension, but there should be no punishment for protecting students. Please sign and share to support her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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OTD in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Here is a photo of LBJ handing a pen to Martin Luther King, Jr, at the signing ceremony. As the caption says, this was "the strongest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction Days."
As of early June, more than 360 incarcerated people with mental illness in Colorado are waiting for a state hospital bed. On average, they spend more than 60 days in jail, and some wait more than a year. All are presumed innocent.
The Jail That Replaced Boulder’s Mental Health System - Bolts
Colorado’s dysfunctional system for restoring competency for defendants with serious mental illness leaves people cycling in and out of jail, where harsh conditions can further erode their mental health.
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On June 27, 2015, 10 days after a white supremacist murdered 9 Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled a flagpole in front of the South Carolina State House and removed a Confederate flag that had hung on the grounds since 1961. 🧵 1/4
A fantastic and smart read. Helps explain much about our current state of affairs in this country!
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5)@gauthamrao.bsky.social · last mo.Thank you @saigrundy.bsky.social for this thoughtful engagement with my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery "a universal right to anti-Black violence and a state-backed justification...obligations as citizens to protect the white man’s property" www.theguardian.com/inequality/n...
Fantastic to see Brent Leggs take over as President & CEO at the National Trust. Amid a really difficult time for funding the preservation and interpretation of the full American story, I'm super excited to see where he takes things. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/a...
The National Trust Names New President
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Great new episode to start your week, Jarvis Givens talking about the history of Af Am educators, Black Studies and historical writing, and pedagogy and education work as community work. Here and at most streams: go.umd.edu/JarvisGivens
Jarvis Givens - Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · June 22 · 49m
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“Human beings, regardless of their race, want to live their lives without restriction. Juneteenth is about a spirit of renewal that celebrates freedom and opportunity.” To understand Juneteenth, one must visit Galveston, its birthplace:
A Visit to Galveston, the Birthplace of Juneteenth
Texas was the last state to receive the news that slavery had ended.
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Minimizing the individual histories from a site that stands a block from Independence Hall is not a neutral curatorial decision. It is a political one. #Juneteenth #CivilWarMemory #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Juneteenth and the Story They Won't Tell
A federal court just handed the Trump administration the right to bury Ona Judge in Washington's shadow.
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Today is Juneteenth and we are also potentially days away from a public charge reg that aims to stop non-white immigrants from existing in the U.S. So I recommend reading my colleague Kat Lundie's new piece on how slavery and public charge are historically intertwined www.nilc.org/articles/the...
The Legacy of Slavery Continues in Modern Immigration Law
To truly honor Juneteenth, we must acknowledge how the legacy of slavery continues in modern immigration laws, including public charge policies.
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The Enslaved South Carolinians Who Rowed to Freedom | Virginia McGee Richards Along the Lowcountry’s Inner Passage, they steered south by starlight as slave catchers pursued them toward Spanish Florida. This #Juneteenth, their names should not be forgotten thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-enslaved...
The Enslaved South Carolinians Who Rowed to Freedom
Along the Lowcountry’s Inner Passage, they steered south by starlight as slave catchers pursued them toward Spanish Florida. This Juneteenth, their names should not be forgotten.
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Celebrating #Juneteenth. Special discount now! @nycplan.org @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social
Universal Write Publications, LLC@uwpbooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoCan a hip-hop album function as theory? Can it preserve historical memory? Can it offer a framework for understanding power, institutions, identity, & futures? Limited Time 20% Discount Code: IC-JUNETEENTH DOI: doi.org/10.65724/GYM... @walterdgreason.bsky.social @hiphoped.bsky.social
Elon Musk Hits $1.1 Trillion Fortune While American Families Pay $3,100 More Under Trump Geopolitical tensions and trade policies drive up household expenses www.ibtimes.co.uk/rising-costs...
Elon Musk Hits $1.1 Trillion Fortune While American Families Pay $3,100 More Under Trump
Elon Musk officially becomes the world's first trillionaire following a major SpaceX public offering, contrasting sharply with American families paying significantly more under the Trump administratio...
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Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers—they’re just better at concealing their prejudice news.umich.edu/smart-enough...
Smart enough to know better: Intelligence is not a remedy for racism
Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers—they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study.
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Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.
Supreme Court “packing” isn’t radical. It has deep roots in American legal tradition.
In the 19th century, Americans expected Supreme Court justices to represent and even travel around circuits and engage with citizens. Staying in D.C. is a more recent development.
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I'm probably too quick to draw analogies to the Reconstruction era and its aftermath (professional hazard!). But these reports about Trump creating a reparations fund for J6 insurrectionists has me thinking the Reconstruction-era Klan and its sympathizers
Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 3y agoSince Donald Trump, Elise Stefanik and others are referring to the "J6 hostages," I thought I'd reshare this: During Reconstruction, Klan sympathizers showed more concern for the treatment of imprisoned Klansmen than for the victims of terrorist violence. 🗃️ For example: t.co/rCoz9Kdwqb
An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.
now available for pre-order: Sarah Marsh, Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race: A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688–1818 global.oup.com/academic/pro... : English slaveholders, like the Stuart kings, asserted absolute power over their human subjects
Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)
A segregated classroom in Mississippi, 1939. On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring racially segregated public education “inherently unequal” www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...
