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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

our Assata obituary by Marian Jones is up now @teenvogue.com.

"Shakur was a militant Black revolutionary who rejected the doctrine of nonviolent civil disobedience... a symbol of 'revolutionary Black feminist agency, a living embodiment of successful resistance to anti-Black state repression.'"

Think about ways to expand what's good and improve on the good.

#Brooklynites #FreeBlackCommunties #NYCHistory

Ending this thread with my brilliant friend & colleague Tracee Worley of Radical Futures Studio (+ one of the many collaborators on the original public history project) talking about better futures here ✨

www.instagram.com/reel/DN24tte...

+ museum educators✨ some of first cultural workers laid off in 2020 even as our city’s orgs streamed their education offerings online. They work daily w/ NYC schools, so our stories are told to next gen. Tracee Worley’s K-12 plans for Brooklynites here @bklynlibrary.bsky.social rb.gy/1uvn3t

YouTube video by CUNY TV Discovering Seneca Village | A Slice of New York

Colleagues & mentors deeply committed to Public History practice:
✨ Cynthia Copeland Cynthia Copeland youtu.be/fEt5V-YCtEI
✨ @ekwashington.bsky.social www.ekwashington.com
✨ Kamau Ware blackgotham.com/about/
✨ Suzanne Spellen (designed the project’s walking tours) open.substack.com/pub/suzannes...

YouTube video by CUNY TV African American Legends: The Weeksville Society

✨ Dr. Joan Maynard #weeksville
youtu.be/dZSv-gf9Uvs

✨ Robert Swan www.proquest.com/openview/f25...

✨ Harold X Connolly archive.org/details/ghet...

✨ Benjamin Quarles www.dacapopress.com/titles/benja...

✨ Erica Armstrong Dunbar ericaarmstrongdunbar.com

✨ Leslie Harris history.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

✨ @profmsinha.bsky.social manishasinha.com/publications...

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism<br /> Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction<br /> Winner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction<...

✨ Saidiya Hartman wwnorton.com/books/978039...
✨ Craig S. Wilder history.mit.edu/people/craig...
✨ @lesliemalex.bsky.social drlesliealexander.com/publications-1

More brilliant scholars to read ⬇️

Abolition Geography Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offer...

✨ Ruth Wilson Gilmore “Freedom is a Place” 🖤 www.versobooks.com/products/261...
✨ Stuart Hall: www.dukeupress.edu/selected-wri...
✨ Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The book’s methodology is deeply rooted in Black Studies from which Public History (where the book’s research began) would grow. So the work is always in dialogue & community, presence not absence. Here’s just some of the brilliant souls & their work that are deeply embedded in Brooklynites:

Brooklynites 2025 Gotham Book Prize FinalistThe 2024 Victorian Society Book of the YearMeet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough thr...

“This is a story of land, home, labor, of New Yorkers past, and the legacy they left us. This is the story of Brooklyn.”

Brooklynites @nyupress.bsky.social came out a year (+1 week) ago. It honors ordinary New Yorkers organizing for better worlds & futures, & is one of hope rebrand.ly/brooklynites

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I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

Coincidentally, I think the lack of primary sources in history education, or the tendency to pick major speeches or turning points instead of asking students to consider daily aspects of life is probably the reason many people think that historical achievements were quick and simple

YouTube video by Sojourners for Justice Press Paper Trails From the Archives: The Black Women Targeted in Red Channels

In case you are unaware of Red Channels, SJP co-director @netabomani.com made a short video to catch you up on the Black women in particular who were targeted: www.youtube.com/shorts/4Knk4... - this has relevance for our current era.

Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.

Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

“The lesson I take is that we will all have to be historians now, to remember that things were not always this way and to see through the growing morass of lies our government is propagating in public.” @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

Kaitlyn Greenidge on D.C., white reconstruction, and how you really can and should be able to believe multiple things are true at one time.

kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...

Chocolate City Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.

“This fear of Black freedom, and the assumption that our freedom must mean insanity and unruliness, is why Trump has called in the National Guard.“

Brilliance from Kaitlyn Greenidge on her substack

kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...

When politicians start policing history, you're firmly in the realms of autocracy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/a...

An honor to serve as inaugural certificate coordinator & celebrate @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social scholars past and present who have long been at the center of community-engaged + public facing scholarship @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu

New Certificate Supports Public-Facing and Community-Based Scholarship Open to matriculated students, the program builds on the Graduate Center’s strengths and emphasizes in-demand skills for careers in and beyond academia.

The Graduate Center is pleased to announce a new Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, which will prepare our students to conduct community-engaged and public-facing scholarship www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-cer... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social