📚New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 📚Orientalism 📚Minor Feelings 📚What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma 📚On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 📚They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us #aapiheritagemonth #booksky

The history of Asian Americans and their (complicated) solidarity with other BIPOC communities. 🎥: theconsciouscitizens #AAPI #aapiheritagemonth #history

Repost: “There is a pattern in this country: whenever Black people experience a modicum of advance, the white backlash is swift and devastating.” 📷: charlesmblow #blackhistory #history #fyp

📚 Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks 📚 Communion by bell hooks 📷: thereclaimed #bellhooks #booksky #history #fyp

Kids have a lot of questions, and when it comes to constitutional rights, we have the answers. Our new series, Know Your Rights University, helps explain topics like free speech in a fun and age-appropriate way.

Repost: “Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones talks about the redistricting plot being enacted in his state and others in the South.” 🎥: imcivicaction #quotes #history #fyp

Repost: “Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones raise their fists as Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives prepare to vote on whether to expel them.” — Tressie McMillan Cottom, The New York Times 📷: Cheney Orr / Reuters #photography #history #NYC #fyp

Repost: “If our votes didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to suppress them!” Save our 🗳️ rights: 5calls.org/issue/voting... 🎥: blairimani (Smarter in Seconds) & naacp_ldf #repost #history #fyp

POETRY ELECTRIC: N.Y.C. SEWER MADE IN INDIA is a young woman’s journey told through dance, play, poetry, and sound – FEATURING: JANVI SAI – MONDAY, MAY 11TH AT 7:30PM. 🎟️ Get tix: lamama.org/poetry-elect... #poetry #theatre #nyc

Repost: “The Supreme Court’s decision to gut the voting rights act this week was a blow to multiracial democracy. The question is not if, but when and how we will fight back.” 🎥: garrisonh #blackhistory #history #tbt #fyp

The VRA ended Jim Crow. But its legacy remains in Voter ID’s, early voting cutbacks, and registration restrictions, echoing the poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses of the past. Gutting the VRA affects EVERYONE — not just Black Americans. 🎥: ravenreveals #history #fyp

We can’t stand for this, and we won’t. We have to stand together. 🎥: lynaevanee #history #fyp

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A #Louisiana man who spent decades in prison for a wrongful conviction briefly began work Monday overseeing the criminal court in #NewOrleans after a judge blocked the state from eliminating the position. A higher court stepped in and froze that decision at the state’s request.

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” — Toni Morrison 🎥: instatituss #artists #quotes

Repost: Louisiana v. Callais. April 29, 2026. Remember the date. 🎥: shuchitaforgeorgia #history #repost #fyp

Collective action is how we get things done. 🎥: higherlearning #blackhistory #performingarts

⏰ Wednesday, April 29, 2026 📍 VIRTUAL EVENT 🎟️: posh.vip/e/a-table-re... Save The Date for the April Virtual Table Read! Celebrating #Autism Acceptance Month with a diverse cast of writers and acting talent performing a live read of 3 new and original scripts. #theatre #tv #film #fyp

What gets to be distinguished as “art” and “theory” while others are relegated to “craft”? 🎥: thehueycopeland #blackart #arthistory #art #fyp

How and why learning about Black history can save your life! 🎥: blairimani drmichaelhforde and raquelmartinphd! #history #health #fyp

🎵 3rd Annual Uptown Downbeat Youth Showcase ⏰ Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM 📍 263 West 86th Street New York, NY, 10024 🎟️ RSVP: harlemchamberplayers.org/event/3rd-an... #concert #NYC #community #studentshowcase

Stand in solidarity with each other and act on it. 🎥: _glassmuseum #BlackHistory #AAPIHistory

Black history is the blueprint. 🎥: garrisonh #blackhistory #blackhistory365 #fyp

Nellie May Quander wasn’t only the first international president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, she was so much more. Watch ASP’s reimagining of the historic Women’s March, featuring Nellie Quander (link in bio): www.americanslaveryproject.org/black-women-... 📷: ashleytheebarroness #history

⏰ Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 PM 📍 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10037 💌 RSVP: harlemchamberplayers.org/event/a-cele... A Tribute to #ArturoSchomburg as part of the Schomburg Center’s Centennial Celebration. The program will feature a world premiere preview of a new #opera about Schomburg!

👁️ 📷: voicesof_theoppressed #history #quotestagram #fyp

“The adoption of this text is not an arrival at a destination, but rather a major step in our ongoing journey and collective conversation for reparatory justice.” — Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa 🎥: thereclaimed #history #quotes #fyp

“128 years ago today, Wong Kim Ark — born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants — won his case at the U.S. Supreme Court and helped defend a key principle of the 14th Amendment: if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen.” 🎥: StopAAPIHate & CAASanFrancisco #AAPIHistory #BlackHistory

Don’t/Dream by Saviana Stanescu / Performed by Lynnette R. Freeman On election day, an undocumented immigrant housekeeper, burdened with endless chores, fantasizes about voting and tries to make sense of her entitled employers’ obsessions. 🎥: aspartscollective.org/dont-dream21 #WomensHistoryMonth

In the Parlour by Judy Tate / Performed by Messeret Stroman Wheeler, Gabrielle Camille Archer, Montana Lampert Hoover & Celestine Rae On the eve of the historic Women’s March, a Black soror of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority learns that the march’s famous white organizer has other plans.

Pulling the Lever by Judy Tate / Performed by Phylicia Rashad, Messeret Stroman Wheeler, and Gabrielle Camille Archer Three generations of Black women remember the initiation, exhilaration, and heartbreak voting for the first time. 🎥: aspartscollective.org/black-women-... #WomensHistoryMonth

Connecting communities through the art of storytelling. Happy Theatre Day! 🎭 #WorldTheatreDay #performingarts

Reparations were paid — TO enslavers but not to those who were enslaved. (Slave Compensation Act of 1837, Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862) 🎥: kelechnekoff #history #didyouknow #fyp

Grieving is not only essential, it is an act of resistance. 🎥: rey_philosophy #philosophy #quotes

‘Before BTS: How Howard University Helped Elevate Korean Culture and How Black Culture Influenced K-Pop’ by The Dig (Howard University): thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/... 🎥: amen.hong #HowardUniversity #HBCU #bts #kpop

ASP Arts Collective Presents: Three radio dramas (with visuals) that spotlight how Black women have progressed voting rights. Special Guest Star, Phylicia Rashad. Followed by a post-show panel. In the Parlour, Pulling the Lever, and Don't/Dream. 👀 : www.americanslaveryproject.org/black-women-...

Join Same Boat Theatre (March 30 - 7:30PM) for the latest installment of Dispatches at Last Supper Books. Inspired by a fugitive slave advertisement found in a colonial newspaper in Quebec in 1785, "Unwanted" follows two men escaping an authority determined to control them.

“Annie Lee's "Blue Monday" was one of her most iconic works, depicting a weary Black woman hunched over her washing basin on Monday morning. The painting resonated deeply with African American audiences who recognized this scene of domestic labor, drawing from Lee's own experiences...” #art

Congratulations to #BeyondTheGates, winner of the 2026 ESSENCE Essie’s Choice Awards! 🏆

“The people at the bottom of the hierarchy see the cracks in the foundation first.” 🎥: malyndahale #history #fyp

“The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.” — Maya Angelou 🎥: mineyagrind #history #fyp

The story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South (1960). This was only 66 years ago. 🎥: myjessstory #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #fyp

“A recent study found that high school students who participated in an exchange of personal stories showed reduced political polarization and increased closeness between classmates.” — Narrative 4, The University of Oxford, and The Ohio State University. Read Study: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Remember March 7, 1965. #BlackHistory #USHistory #history

We celebrate Black History 365 days a year at ASP! 🙌🏿 🎥: activelyblack #BlackHistory #WomensHistory #love

Toni Morrison on what it means to bear witness as a Black writer. To keep our histories alive, to preserve our culture with honesty, and to experience joy through all of it. (WTTW Chicago, 1977) 🎥: contemporary.blueprint #ToniMorrison #WomensHistoryMonth #quotes

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is anyone of you.” — #AudreLorde 🎥: ashleytheebarroness #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #quotes

We’re kicking off #WomensHistoryMonth with a continuation of Black History Month – featuring ASP’s “Black Women and the Ballot!” 3 radio plays (with visuals) about rebellions large and small that Black women mounted for the right to vote. Watch 👉🏾 www.americanslaveryproject.org/black-women-... #fyp

We’ll see you TONIGHT at The Williams Center for the Arts (Lafayette College) for Judy Tate’s newest play, The Language of Sight! Last Minute Tickets Here ➡️ bit.ly/TLOSDMD26 #TheLanguageofSight #theatre #pennsylvania #fyp

Important reads for #BlackHistoryMonth ❤️🖤💚 #books

Why is it important to teach and understand history? Because it’s often cyclical, and if we don’t learn from our past, we might repeat similar patterns in our future. 🎥: racheljamisonwebster #BlackHistoryMonth #books #fyp