Dr. Black History

Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just told Americans to stop demanding things like “access to cheap goods” because it’s “not the essence of the American dream.”

YouTube video by King David Koresh - Topic The Detroit Partnership (feat. Shingi Mavima)

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55 years ago, today, the Chicago Police assassinated Fred Hampton. Hampton was only 21 years old….

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”

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Academics, tell us about an article that you've published.

Historical Thinking and the Democratic Mind: An Apprenticeship Approach to Teaching Narrative Complexity in the History Classroom You may have seen this meme making the internet rounds. The meme pithily calls out a crisis in higher education that we humanists have warned about for yea

My good friend John Gram and I wrote an article for the JAH on why teaching historical narrative construction in college survey courses is vital to civic life. And it’s open access!

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Using the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) as a case study, this essay explores the physical and epistemological violence waged against Black automotive workers and the violent conditions at the point of automotive production of the era.

Anyone else seen this yet? #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky

As a lifelong Detroit Lions’ fan, this season has been therapeutic 🤷🏿‍♂️

🤣. Funny … but that was 1998-9

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If you’re one of the millions of users who are new to Bluesky, you may find this blog useful. 🦋

For Hip-Hop, 1996 had some essential albums 🤷🏿‍♂️

Useful, particularly in these times…

Federal Judge Dismisses Right-Wing Lawsuit Seeking Access to Wisconsin Voter Rolls Read more here.

"A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit from the right-wing Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) seeking to gain unfettered access to Wisconsin’s voter registration rolls — an effort that voting rights advocates feared could result in unlawful voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City" Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Joe William Trotter, Jr. shares the sweeping story of how American cities developed from the visions and labor of the Black working class.
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