New IJ lawsuit filed today challenging ICE raids of construction sites, wherein ICE detains American citizens in AL, rejects their proof of citizenship, and holds them without PC.
Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Every Fourth of July, I read Frederick Douglass's important speech from that day in 1852 and ask my friends to join me. This year it hits even harder. "Your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery ... mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy." www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
The evil that men do lives after them
The African Meeting House (built in 1806) located in Boston's Beacon Hill area is facing some tough budget cuts, but a second grade class is trying to help save it. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
Historical marker destroyed in Florence, SC, honoring Reconstruction-era Black lawmaker, Alfred Rush, who represented Darlington County and was assassinated in 1876. This marks the third destruction of this marker. wpde.com/news/local/a... #TeachReconstruction
Let’s keep the context up front. In early April masses of NEH grants were terminated as “an urgent priority.” Those included grants that fund 50 state humanities councils, which do community-based work all across the country. And rigorously peer-reviewed grants to individual scholars & orgs.
It's unfortunate to see several UNC Press titles among the many books removed from the Naval Academy library.
Let's support these authors by:
💚Requesting these books from your local library
💚Following the authors on social media & amplify their voices
💚Purchasing your own copy if possible
This, plus the observation I and others have had, that this was NOT like how we were treated with BLM in 2020. It’s a “wow gee I wonder why 😒” at the cops, but I hope we can take full advantage of the comparative lack of repression and run with this energy as far as we can.
Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.
BREAKING: The Trump administration has detained another international student—this time from the University of Alabama and without providing any justification.
All are assaults on free speech and are blatant violations of immigration law.
After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming to DC www.washingtonian.com/2025/03/04/a... #blackhistorymonth #tellemwhatwedid
Port St. Joe will feature Defenders of Democracy: History and Heroism of U.S. Colored Troops in Civil War Florida. gulfcounty.news/2025/02/03/p... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth
Congratulations ✨💕
sorry for lack of poasting depression is really getting me down and whaleship careers, the traditional solution for seasonal affective disorder, are really scarce these days
I LOVE Christmas in Connecticut ❤️
If people stopped following me on here maybe I’d post more.
Hear me out, aquavit with fresh dill and lemon or a nice ale ✨
Happy Army-Navy Day with Alonzo and William Cushing! Brothers who went to both West Point and Annapolis right before the Civil War
The legacies of thousands of freedom seekers, enslaved people and Black veterans are preserved among the headstones and markers at a 125-year-old Black cemetery in Lawnside, NJ. Meet Dolly Marshall, the N.J. woman fighting to preserve them. www.nj.com/news/2024/11...
update: Penn just--finally--admitted they have Delisha Africa's remains
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Vicksburg National Military Park to Host Remembrance of the 150th Anniversary of the Vicksburg Massacre of 1874 vicksburgnews.com/vicksburg-na... #TeachReconstruction Yes, we are still in the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction.
Listen. Sometimes historians make mistakes, like not fully filling out a citation that you swear you’ll remember on a first draft or cutting your bangs too short. I will work on the first one and sadly shall live with the consequences of the second.
These have made their way into my grad school groupchat, thank you for the compilation
Roll Tide Bluesky
All I know how to do is study the civil war, eat hot chip, and lie.
The only thing that could fix me is a turkey cranberry relish sub from Publix but the closest Publix is an hour and a half away 😭 cruel world you have taken much from me since moving me to DC
