Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD
@learothawms.bsky.social
Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
I am conducting research of the history of St. Cloud Hill for a book on @fortnegley @drangelasutton and I are working on and am struck by the glee evident in President Martin Van Buren’s address to Congress about the removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands. 👇🏾
Berthe Morisot was a leading French artist who was the only woman to show her work at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. Her dynamic Self portrait, 1885 #womensart
“The Day is Past and Gone” Scenes from this evening’s walk. It feels like the earth is giving me warm embrace. #sunset #OldHistoryLake
Olaniyi Omotayo, Nigerian (1995- ), Empowered Unity 4, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in, private collection
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Kirche in Cassone (Church in Cassone) 1913. Oil on canvas.
Standing at the Mosquée de la Divinité in Dakar, Senegal staring at a crescent moon and Venus while they dance around a minaret. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #astrophotography
This mural is titled "New York Avenue". It was created by artist Jenna Morello. It’s on the Bywater Building in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Photo credit: Rueben Garcia. #streetart #art #mural #atlanticcity #newjersey #flowers
When enough rain falls in Maltahöhe, Namibia, millions of desert lilies bloom across the landscape for just a few days each year. This natural phenomenon briefly transforms the arid desert into a sea of flowers almost overnight. IG: @ earthpix
Painting by Gustav Klimt. ‘Tannenwald I’ Pine Forest I,1901. Oil on canvas. Size 90 x 90 cm.
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Nashville’s Historic Sites Reckon With Their History of Slavery www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...
Nashville’s Historic Sites Reckon With Their History of Slavery
How historians at sites like The Hermitage, Belmont Mansion and Belle Meade fight the ‘good slave owner’ and ‘happy slave’ myth
nashvillescene.com
'Slaves and slave owners': Pope Leo XIV speaks on his genealogy in new interview www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/slaves-and-s...
'Slaves and slave owners': Pope Leo XIV speaks on his genealogy in new interview
The pontiff more fully acknowledged his family history in response to a question about his connection to the U.S. as the first American Pope.
blackcatholicmessenger.org
Can We Kick It?: new doc is a timely take on Black history, pay-to-play and the future of US soccer www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Can We Kick It?: new doc is timely take on Black history, pay-to-play and future of US soccer
Akbar Majeed’s new feature tells the story of the sport through a Black lens and asks hard questions about the barriers facing the game’s breakthrough
theguardian.com
Be careful Nashville! I visited my Promise Land TN family’s Reconstruction Era cemetery and ended up with 6 ticks on my shirt.
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 4d agoOh great. An untreatable, possibly fatal virus passed by ticks is spreading in the USA. Good thing we have the CDC looking out for us, am I right?
🧵It's the last day of July, and perhaps your summer writing goals are starting to feel unachievable. What to do? 🌻 Don't panic. Remember that you are not alone. Almost every academic feels this way in the middle of the summer. And guess what? They still publish and get tenure. (1/3)
apnews.com/article/unes... 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp among new additions to join UNESCO's World Heritage List
The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, an ornate 13th-century Buddhist temple in Thailand and tidal flats in western South Korea were among several sites added to the World Heritage List on Saturday at a U....
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This massive mural in Worcester is more than just street art. Artist Marka27 painted the three most important women in his life, his wife and two daughters, then surprised them when it was finished. ❤️
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ In 1803, one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place. In a powerful act of resistance—75 Igbo people took their own lives rather than remain enslaved. #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #KeepItWoke blackpast.org/african-amer...
Igbo Landing Mass Suicide (1803)
Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now ...
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