For #BlackHistoryMonth today my focus is: Septima Poinsette Clark. You might not know her name, but you’ve felt her impact if you’ve ever heard “education is power” and actually believed it. scmuseum.org/learn/deeper...

She's challenging the party's comfort with "electability" narratives. Hear from jasmineforus.bsky.social on the latest episode of At Our Table.

@texastribune.org I am seriously grateful to y’all for your good work. Thank you so much!

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽 Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Great to see a core group of people turn out early on a Friday to help transcribe documents related to the Colored Conventions for this year's Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon in the Marymount Institute at LMU. #DouglassDay (photo posted with permission of participants)

League of Women Voters Denounces House Passage of Anti-Voter SAVE America Act | LWV www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

I would love to see you TONIGHT at Politics & Prose in Washington D.C. Connecticut Ave. location at 7pm. I’ll be discussing my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE—& the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 —w/ historian Cassandra Good. Please join us! @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social

Just a reminder ... tomorrow at 5.30 pm, Holly Fletcher (@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine' ✨ Sign up at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (In-person, IHR Wolfson Room NB02, all are welcome!)

Absolute Units returns tomorrow! We continue reflecting on our origin story while looking specifically at our links to British colonial agriculture. Plus, how do we want to be remembered in another 75 years' time? Listen wherever you get your podcasts. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

42 Years Ago Today: February 3, 1984 Front Page

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.

Volume up! Let’s show this sweeet baby girl some love. Our youth are our future, our children deserves a better tomorrow. I will lay down my life to make sure they stand a fighting chance. Sing, baby, sing!! 🎤🎶🎵😭 #Pinks #SheShed #SaveTheChildren

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” ~Ida B. Wells. Image: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.” ― Elizabeth Zimmerman #KnitSky 🧶 #InTheseTimes

#OTD in 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt became the first Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW). The PCSW was established to advise POTUS on issues concerning the status of women. Created by JFK in 1961. In 1975, it became the National Association of Commissions for Women.

1/20/1856 — b. Harriet Stanton Blatch, American suffragist, lobbyist, orator. Founder, Equality League of Self-Supporting Wmn (1907) which became Women’s Political Union ('10) + merged w/the Congressional Union('17). Organizer, NY suffrage parades('08, 10 & 12) #womenshistory #womensrights #PolSky

But my whole clock’s run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Let’s hope it an over whelming success

Tuscarawas Valley Civil War Round Table to host program on espionage and enslaved informants who advanced their own freedom while aiding U.S. military efforts during the Civil War www.yourohionews.com/tuscarawas-c...

January 17 - The 1915 Hunger March On this day in Labor History the year was 1915. It was the day that the people in Chicago stood up to demand an end to hunger and unemployment. Their stand began at a meeting at Bowen Hall, part of the Hull House complex founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane

The Queen Miller Home in Staunton, VA, was a historic Black landmark that housed more than 300 children who were orphaned, displaced, or denied care between 1910 and 1950 www.whsv.com/2026/01/13/s... A descendant is among those leading an effort to preserve the remaining land & the site’s legacy.

January 7 - Zora Neal Hurston Day As a preservationist she preserved the language of African American people, especially in Florida. On her day we will tell folktales, act them out, and wear beautiful hats! #booksky #teachersky tinyurl.com/56ryztvz

No words.

Anyone know how to get into green power industry as an electrical engineer? Solar and battery stuff seems to be the future and also I wouldn’t be working on a project that makes the world worse

The John M. Langston School in Arlington’s Halls Hill was part of a program created by Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald to build high-quality schools for Black students in the South. arlingtonhistorical.com/items/show/330 #educationalreconstruction #TeachReconstruction

Providence is a small city. Fear, discomfort, anxiety extends beyond Brown University as the shooter remains at large. We are all sheltering in place.

#philsci #STS

Thread. Murder for Christmas.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

WHEW! Where has the time gone? It's December and I think this December, we're going to do things a little different. No I didn't dye an advent, however i've got a whole 25 days of fun, interesting and down right delectable things to share with you! #Yarn #TTRPGs #knitsky

Remembering when he came to speak at Rice in the eighties. And the many plays. And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the film.

Washington Archdiocese's project honors those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland www.detroitcatholic.com/news/washing...

"The Revolution that failed is the Revolution [that this] Administration cannot bear for Americans to know and mourn. The Revolution that succeeded is the one some American institutions are determined to ignore."

MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested! (Sharing this on behalf of a friend)

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

Explore Black History at the Almost Unknown Exhibition at Winterthur Museum www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article... This exhibition offers a rare chance to explore a gallery first imagined by William J. Wilson, a 19th-century Black journalist, educator, and visionary.

Remember when Grok was only something Heinlein readers knew about and oh. I get it now.

He looked white but wasn’t. Walter F. White was a Black journalist who used that “invisibility” to investigate 40+ lynchings across the Jim Crow South. He risked his life pretending to be what America pretended didn’t exist. #VoicesFromHistory #AntiLynching

Just watched this. Highly recommended.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Tfw you just remembered buying a beloved sweater last fall and are wondering where it got to in all of this.

I love that NYC has what amounts to a #DHmakes contest and exhibition! 🤩

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#BLM OTD Levi Coffin, referred to as "President of the Underground Railroad," was born in Guilford County, NC. He was named "President of the Underground Railroad" because of the thousands of slaves he helped escape slavery from the south to the Northern US. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory

Zora Neale Hurston. MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Meet Cleopatra Coleman, the Caroline County woman working to preserve a small Virginia town's (Port Royal) history www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...