In 1984, Jesse Jackson ran for president in the Democratic primary. Jackson, a well-renowned civil rights activist, ran a campaign dedicated to remedying the systemic struggles Black families, especially women and children, faced. Honor Jackson's legacy and passing by celebrating his memory.

Oop... ““As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed ... this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts," Rufe wrote. “It does not.”” 🗃️

💜💚💛 The Ocean of Soul (Tennessee State University band). #MardiGras #BlackEduSky 🔥

Catching up with #curling but I still can't find that one great meme, so let me recreate it. After 5 minutes: This is boring, why do people watch this. After 10 minutes: Their two in the house mean nothing because they're ripe for a hit and roll... After 20 minutes: SWEEP, MOTHERF*CKER, SWEEEEEP!!!

Feed not speed people unite: it's Sunday brunch time. Have a good day 🙂

The real story of the piece is mentioned in the seventh paragraph and then not returned to: one by one, the foundations that used to fund humanities research stopped, leaving just Mellon, which put an ideological rider on their funding in 2020. They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

Happy Weekend!

🐘❤️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/s...

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

"A giant catapult" made me actually laugh out loud. (But yes, the dumbest timeline...)

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

There are more people (and people I didn't expect to voice such opinions) than I thought who are a little grumpy about not having understood the lyrics. I know this is a revolutionary observation, but perhaps folks could consider that music is not an exclusively linguistic experience, you know...

Yo... "Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon will be represented by #Minnesota’s former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson. ... Joe Thompson joined Lemon’s defense nearly a month after leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office that brought the charges." www.startribune.com/don-lemon-ic...

Cannot get over it. CANNOT get over it. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much! #AcademicSky #EduSky 🗃️

I am now at an age where I get a little mad when they rearrange the grocery store. Like, why would you do this to me, man, I have an entire, empirically tested shopping choreography. (OK, it actually makes sense that all cookies are now in one place, but you can’t just spring stuff like that on me).

Currently attending a concise, nuanced, and very interesting Zoom lecture on the history of U.S. immigration policies, racialization, documentation (or lack thereof), and deportations by the magnificent Dr. Mae Ngai who remains *the* expert on these subjects. #EduSky 🗃️

To be fair, I did not expect the blatant lack of visual literacy that some people voluntarily put on display with these public “are sugar cane plantations, broken utility poles, and pan-American symbolism political? Dunno, I don’t speak Spanish 😢😠” statements.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

What a gorgeous show. Seeing the men playing dominoes and the vendors😍...it was PR but it felt so familiar to anyone from the islands.

The historical richness of it all was incredible. Dang, Benito. Thank you and your team. #BadBunny #Superbowl

The AMERICAS, baby. 💜 #Superbowl #BadBunny

THIS. I want to teach a class on the first minute alone.

All these invisible, onion cutting ninjas in here, man. #Benitobowl #Superbowl #BadBunny

The man turned the stadium into a Caribbean sugar plantation. I am DONE. 🔥🗃️ #BadBunny #Superbowl

BENITO. BOWL. starting now. 🔥

at least we’re all united in our horror. none of us had to experience the Dunkin ad alone.

I'm not trying to be mean but I honestly and completely earnestly believed that that Ryan Gosling trailer just now was a spoof of a space movie, especially conceived as a Superbowl ad for whatever. I have googled and I was... wrong.

It’s Benitobowl Day 🥳!

Watching Olympic curling like... #Sweeeeeep

Baby elephant time.

Baby elephant time.

He’s like… too good at this. Dang.

Things are bad, here’s an elephant I saw once

Turns out allowing the guy who doesn’t let the employees of his other company take bathroom breaks own a newspaper was really a very bad idea

Such a pleasure to welcome @ronajohnson.bsky.social to Minnesota, and thank you again for your amazing lecture! #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️

Yes, how dare one cast a Black woman as Helen of Troy when the, uh, historical record shows that she was the daughter of Leda of Sparta and the supreme deity Zeus disguised as a swan, and was born from one of two *eggs*. Greek mythology is really strict that way. Also: no ancient PoC. Obviously.

What Bad Bunny said. #Grammys

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth

It's hard to overstate how NORMAL it was to sexualize teen girls when I was growing up. "Jailbait" jokes were everywhere, I was constantly sexually harassed by men in cars when walking to school in 6th grade. Epstein is of an cohort where it was GENERALLY maybe a little edgy but not extreme.

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” — Mae Jemison ✨️✨️✨️ 100 years of Black History Month ❤️🖤💚

It's an exciting week when half the academics who pen bestselling works of vast expanse and authority on hot topics have clearly spent their time assuring a convicted pedophile who can barely write a sentence how brilliant he is.

Happy Black History Month!

Last week, we discussed historiographical framings of the 20th-cent. Black Freedom Struggle (Long vs. significant breaks), collective memory and memorial culture, and we discussed this report on the removal of the slavery exhibit in Philly. Students had great insights. 🗃️ www.npr.org/2026/01/25/n...

Our local library does an annual Stuffed Animal Sleepover, and OMG, it is the cutest 💜. #Minnesota

"You are scaring schools, people, and the world." Babies 💔. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

This is EXACTLY what St. Paul has been warning about all these years.