Consider the evolution of the United Nations from its original conception as a League of Nations to a global network pursuing Sustainable Development Goals. That transformation was impossible without the work of Bethune, DuBois, Bunche, Young, Mandela, and Annan. #ASALH2025

Tom Alter was a guest on today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast. He discussed Populism in the 1880s and the present with Flash Ferenc. Check out the interview below. awf.labortools.com/listen/popul...

We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)

We're looking forward to the @asalh-bhm.bsky.social conference exhibits later this week. Stop by booth #35 in the International Ballroom of the Omni and check out our collection of discounted books and journals from 16 publishers. #ASALH2025

First day of the @asalh-bhm.bsky.social annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all African American studies books with code ASALH25 at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p... #ASALH25 #ASALH2025 #BlackHistory

English teachers, history teachers, government teachers: This is an extraordinary primary source. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f...

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

The study of Black labor destroys the mythology of global, industrial capitalism. It reveals the fraud at the heart of modern economics. #ASALH2025

Outstanding Wired piece by @StevenLevy about how the Valley went MAGA. Great writing by someone who has been chronicling the Valley - its dreams, geniuses, failures, and now its utter political corruption - since well before it was the Valley. Pulitzer-worthy www.wired.com/story/silico...

Brought to you by all of the bumbling sitcom dads that entertained US audiences for the last thirty years, here is a president who is dumber than Homer Simpson and more clueless than Peter Griffin. #UN

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app. The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books. Anyone willing to donate should contact [email protected].

It's about minerals, water and power. (gift link, Toronto Star story from Feb.) www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Steven J. Brady's Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 cornellpress.bsky.social (2022) Reviewed by Paul A. Gilje doi.org/10.1080/0361... #slavery #bookreview #ushistory

Organizing a book talk at CSU East Bay with @wakerevolt.bsky.social. If you are around there...please join us. Tues Sept 30 6pm.

Comparing the anemic gubernatorial campaign of establishment Democrat Mikie Sherrill in NJ to the galvanizing mayoral campaign of progressive Zohran Mamdani in NYC speaks volumes about which direction the Dems should be moving.

IRS filings show the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation was Turning Point USA’s largest direct donor, surpassing contributions from foundations linked to billionaires like Bernie Marcus, Charles Johnson and Jimmy John Liautaud.

86%, is that a lot

Time to cozy up and enjoy some public scholarship. 💗

Given the rules governing Global Timing Birthday, as it is already night in NZ: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

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Great essay on 19th c. women's rights activist Amelia Bloomer, in @contingent-mag.bsky.social. contingentmagazine.org/2025/09/09/d...

At The Other Place, in February 2020, I wrote a thread about doing research in India. In my ten years on that platform, these were the tweets that received the most engagement. I want that thread to live on and continue helping folks. #Research #ResearchIndia #ResearchSouthAsia #Skystorians

When the voices against censorship stand together, it looks like #ScholarSunday with @americanstudier.bsky.social.

+ @davelevitan.bsky.social @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social @kidadaewilliams.com @momentmagazine.bsky.social & many more. Please reshare the thread widely to get all this great public scholarship to all of the folks, & enjoy, all!

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

In honor of Robert Redford and because Paul Newman, this week I reviewed The Sting (1973) which is both an exceptional film about conmen and also an exceptional study of cinema as a con itself. The Sting has such a brilliant structure of misdirection and distraction by way of Newman's baby blues 🗃️

This week’s blog posts need a lot more love. The histories & issues of censorship in America have never been more relevant. Please share widely! @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 🗃️

Look at that beautiful & evocative cover! & then pre-order @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's timely & thoughtful book, the perfect holiday gift for Capra fans, Film Studiers, resistance fighters, public scholars, & everyone else y'know. @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

I have been working for a good while now with a student & her family who are here as asylum seekers from Venezuela. It is not possible to imagine people who more clearly contrast with Trump & embody the best of the America that every single one of us should want to fight for.

Seriously, EC Comics were doing work! Just taught “The Monsters!” (1952) and it makes readers confront themselves and their hideous beliefs. @walterdgreason.bsky.social @annapeppard.bsky.social @qianawhitted.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social interminablerambling.medium.com/ec-comics-th...

BSAM Virtual: Pan-African Student Activism with Milkee Bekele (Macalester College, Ethiopia) #BSAM2025 youtu.be/63sY9DclJG4?...

Kahless tells us that in the face of censors, of oppressors who would use your words against you even if true, you must speak out all the more loudly. All you do by silencing yourself voluntarily is save them the effort of silencing you.

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing. Not distressing. Full tilt disturbing.

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/337...

Standing against cowardice. #ASALH2025 ASALH leads the fight against censorship and ignorance.

A first-semester freshman at Auburn -- who has not even experienced one month as a student -- is demanding universities purge faculty members who dared to be critical of the man who created the Professor Watchlist. Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.

The paperback for my debut book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US will be out in a few months, nearly two years after its release. I'm so grateful folks have been supporting it even as I'm here recovering from heart surgery. Updates on the way. Stay tuned 💜 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...

Rooted in a tradition of oral storytelling, The Visiting Room Project archive features over 100 interviews with people sentenced to life without parole – also known as death by incarceration – in Louisiana. Learn more about TVRP and explore the archive: www.visitingroomproject.org

Thank you to all of the educators including #schoollibrarians who are committed to regularly including conversations/discussions about our nation's founding documents. Yes! to #TeachTruth on #ConstitutionDay and throughout the school year. #EduSky #TLSky

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

Here comes subprime auto-loan delinquencies. 👀 (via Arbor Data)!

Stand up for your freedom! www.vote411.org/DeltaSigmaTh...

Tonight's news makes clear that the legacy media is fully capitulating. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and pro-democracy. It will never bow down. It will never give in. It will never compromise Sign up now to support its work! hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks. Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals. (Published May 2024) By @fastlerner.bsky.social

2 hangings ... Trey Reed, Corey Zukatis - & they say no FOUL Play? WTH? Why isn't this being covered nationally?

A student was lynched today at Delta University in Mississippi. Black people, please be safe.