Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD

#FrozenNashville
#Photography
#Winter
#Ice

There'll Be Another Spring by Dianne Reeves on Apple Music Song · 2005 · Duration 4:41

Now Playing: Dianne Reeves. There’ll Be Another Spring

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I wonder if the sharp crackle I hear is them saying hello or the plants saying goodbye.

I’m looking at these “frozen ropes,” and wondering if any will survive Mother Nature’s frosty kiss. 🧵

How Historically Black Schools Create and Preserve Their Own History Through Amazing Artifacts, From Paintings to Marching Band Hats For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five universities

How Historically Black Schools Create and Preserve Their Own History Through Amazing Artifacts, From Paintings to Marching Band Hats www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-... “HBCUs saw the value of Black cultural production and Black aesthetics in ways that other audiences probably didn’t understand."

Rush Hour, Nashville.
FREE MINNESOTA

Photo of two colourful stylised glass birds with long wire legs on a flat surface

Fused glass birds by Emma Butler-Cole Aiken, a stained glass artist working in the Scottish Borders #WomensArt

😍

I’m ok. Getting kerosine and some last minute provisions.

William Shatner?🤔

I've Got My Eyes On You by Dianne Reeves on Apple Music Song · 2005 · Duration 2:04

Now Playing. Dianne Reeves.
I’ve Got My Eyes On You.

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Looking up into the cool night sky and feeling like the universe is smiling at me.
#crescentmoon
#astrophotography
#moonshot
#photography

Thanks, Steve!🙏🏾

Thank you, Vice Mayor! I’m pleased that you had the gavel in your hand when I was confirmed. 🙏🏾

Thanks, Holly!🙏🏾

Thank you, Sir!

Thanks Robin!🙏🏾

Taking a moment to take in my first view of Nashville as the newly confirmed Davidson County Historian.

I am grateful for the appointment and the rousing endorsement I received in council chambers.
#ownward
#studyhistory.

#TagTuesday

vibrant South Chicago neighborhood
parking lot at the Southside African
Restaurant on 83rd Street

May 2025
#biking #Chicago #StreetArt #StreetPhotography #murals #graffiti #UrbanScape #CityScape #UrbanGaze

Having survey students curate timelines of Reconstruction using artifacts from the NMAAHC's Searchable Museum?
😍 👏🏾

Spread the word!

Not enough have read Du Bois's 1920 essay, "The Souls of White Folk," and it shows. docs.google.com/viewer?url=h...

Happy MLK Jr. Day 2026! Here is an interesting piece about MLK's connection to Germany in 1964: time.com/5504826/mart...

Viola Liuzzo's killing and the F👎I's tarnishing of her reputation have been on my mind since Good was murdered. www.nps.gov/places/viola...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

A watercolour painting of some steps surrounded by flowers. I copied this from a watercolour teaching book which featured a lot of buildings/places in France.

Another sunny watercolour painting. Somewhere in France! #art #watercolours #painting #sunny

Sometimes things unfold the way they should; an historical thought:

Anti-life: How U.S. abortion bans actually affect mothers and babies In early December 2025, a law came into force in Texas banning the sale of medication abortion drugs to residents. Since the summer of 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to set their own...

14 US states have abortion bans, leading to a rise in maternal and infant mortality. Global experience shows that criminalizing abortion doesn't increase birth rates - it risks women’s health and lives, making it harder to obtain legal medical care and forcing them into clandestine abortions.

What did I just see??!!!😳
#BearsvRams

Congratulations Senegal! #Afcon2025