Aisha B.

Happy Black History Month!!

5 Free Resources for Teaching Black History The Zinn Education Project helps educators teach the truth.

5 Free Resources for Teaching Black History this #bhm100 wordinblack.com/2026/01/5-fr... #bhmat100

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New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities Researchers linked higher inflammation levels to decades of stress, including discrimination and economic hardship.

What have i been yelling for the last 5 years? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Nonviolence Is Violence Too ft Too Black YouTube video by iMiXWHATiLiKE!

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Nonviolence Is Violence Too ft Too Black www.youtube.com/live/l6MzZqE...

Outside Agitators “Outside agitators” is a trope used throughout history in response to slave resistance, Reconstruction, the labor movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and more to dismiss ...

Vocubulary lesson:

“Outside agitators” is a trope used throughout U.S. history in reference to slave resistance, Reconstruction, labor movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the Civil Rights Movement, & more to dismiss and repress the legitimate agency, intellect, and concerns of local people.

🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶

It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion

I understand the impulse to distance yourself from American history. I do. But the atrocities are the actual normal for many communities. And until we confront them as part of a baseline societal flaw and address why they keep happening, they will not stop. They will just continue to shift targets

Feb. 25, 1870: Hiram Revels Sworn into Office Hiram Revels was sworn into office as senator from Mississippi, becoming the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

#tdih 1870, Hiram Revels was sworn into office as senator from Mississippi, becoming the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Do you know how many African Americans have served in the Senate to date? #TeachReconstruction

Read ⬇️ 🧵
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Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate "We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

Tapping the sign again.

The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles - Commonplace History also changes because of strange, flawed, deeply human people doing unremarkable, tedious, and often boring work.

"History also changes because of strange, flawed, deeply human people doing unremarkable, tedious, and often boring work." - I think about this daily. Perhaps others will also be interested.
commonplace.online/article/the-...

Concentration Camps in U.S. History Examples of the U.S. government holding people in concentration camps.

While there has been attention on the forced detention of immigrants in the prisons in Florida, Texas, and El Salvador, there are detention centers that qualify as concentration camps around the country.

Look at U.S. history. Yes, it can happen here. #Resist
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Must-Reads and Some Notes on Taking Action and Staying Whole in 2026 As we close out a year of crisis and courage, I’m thinking about what sustains us — and what comes next.

Folks are really grabbing up my time for book chats this winter. That availability will be all booked up soon. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I get into it in a section of this edition of my newsletter.

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

U.S. Mint In Philadelphia Presses Final Pennies As The 1-Cent Coin Gets Canceled The Treasury Department expects to save $56 million per year on materials by ceasing to make them.

After 232 years, the U.S. Mint has produced its last-ever penny

Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong The MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power.

“…the construction of class and race, and racial prejudice, have created a system that keeps members of the lower classes precisely where they are.” www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

Happy birthday!

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

I'm excited to be back in the world talking to readers about my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US with the Dayton Metro Library on Nov 6 at 6pm ET.

This event aligns with Shirley Chisholm becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress in Nov 1968.

dayton.bibliocommons.com/events/67f81...

#booksky

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world.

And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post.

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Chains Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2010. 336 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of an enslaved teenager during the Revolutionary War.

Join #BannedBooksWeek and prepare for the #AmericanRevolution250 by participating in the @ncacensorship.bsky.social read-ins of historical fiction "Chains" by @halseanderson.bsky.social

Host an event or find one near you. Read: www.righttoreadnight.com

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Sept. 18, 1850: Fugitive Slave Act Passed The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.

Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."

Lessons + more ⬇️
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RIP writer Alice Dunbar Nelson, died today 1935, part of the Harlem Renaissance.

"I sit and sew—my heart aches with desire—
That pageant terrible, that fiercely pouring fire
On wasted fields, and writhing grotesque things
Once men. My soul in pity flings...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Reading Liberation Psychology — What A Shrink Thinks

Reading Liberation Psychology will start a new book on November 15th. New members welcome

We meet 1x monthly, 3rd Saturdays

We'll be reading "We've Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse" by James Hillman

Sympathy: feeling emotion based on your perception of someone else's situation. Empathy understands the other person's *own* perception of their situation.
Sympathy without empathy = you can be the sole judge of who deserves compassion; you can dismiss certain people, groups or situations at will.

Gun Violence Archive Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is a not for profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States. GVA will collect...

For no reason at all, here is the website listing every Mass Shooting in the US in just 2025. About 240 people dead since January. www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass...

Remembering Hurricane Katrina With Clint Smith, 20 Years After the Storm | KQED We talk to Clint Smith about his new piece for the Atlantic called "Twenty Years After the Storm." And we'll hear from you: what was returning home from a natural disaster like for you?

🎙️ON AIR:

It's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina struck. We're speaking to New Orleans-born poet and Atlantic staff writer @clintsmithiii.bsky.social about the destruction of his hometown and its recovery.

❓ What was returning home from a natural disaster like for you?

📻 Listen: