Celebrating the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson #Minnesota

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

Proposals for the unlawful detention of entire American communities. The horrific systems of incarceration these policies produce. & the impressive ways communities resist. 1941-2 & 2025-6 meet in the Second Inning of Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America, Season 2! 🗃️

Is the United States insolvent? Lemme youtubesplain: youtu.be/_Zhy-icOTjM?... I'm trying a few new things on my YouTube channel -- trying to make economics more accessible -- and so I'm also really interested in your feedback.

A very special #Easter egg.

#BookSky Vital new non-fiction, including the essential new history resource, SHIFTING LANDSCAPES, about the Gallier House and New Orleans in the nineteenth century.

Scholarly Easter eggs! Does it get better than that, people?

An appropriately egg-themed #ScholarSunday. Enjoy! 🗃️

Another great Sunday filled with wonderful public scholarship! Thank you @americanstudier.bsky.social

+ & many more! Please share the whole thread as widely as possible to get all this great work to all the folks, & enjoy, all! blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Five young women in Minnesota are already reshaping politics, activism and art, from high school students passing legislation to state representatives breaking barriers and calling on the next generation to lead now. buff.ly/KCJMG3q #YoungWomenLeaders #Minnesota

Pam Bondi, Trump-dumped yesterday, was a highly paid lobbyist for Qatar and Kuwait, not to mention Geo Group, the nation’s top operator of immigrant detention centers ( we used to call them prisons), the cruelty profiteer I exposed years ago in an investigation titled, “Free Market in Human Misery.“

You can also read about why Mississippi moved to allow married White women independent access to enslaved property here: theconversation.com/american-sla...

The recent story in @nytimes.com on the abolition of women’s right to vote discusses coveture, where married women had no independent rights. What’s missing here is the REAL story of why coveture ended, and it has little to do with gender equity and more to do with slavery, power, and economics.

True.

Every white man is saying a version of this these days. The most oppressed people in the history of the world 🙄

BlueSky grew the fastest when it was most welcoming to Black users, especially Black women. BlueSky's growth stalled when that changed, and hasn't fully recovered since. It's the weird social media resentment: * Black users drive growth on social media * But platforms don't prioritize them 🙂🙃

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

“Telling women to shut up, attempting to banish them from civic life, and insisting on the right of men, by virtue of their “equipment,” to rule as they please is a politics of rape.”-Alan Elrod

#OnThisDay in 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is killed by an assassin in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting a sanitation workers’ strike. https://ow.ly/UZSH50YAG2r#OnThisDay

Peaceful action in the face of hatred. #Minnesota

This letter by cartoonist/illustrator Alfred J Frueh to his fiancée Giuliette ingeniously folds out to form a miniature 3-D art gallery (1931, Smithsonian) www.architectural-review.com/essays/folio...

Pam Bondi has been fired. Good riddance. Pete Hegseth is next.

Goodbye and good riddance to Pam Bondi. You were exceptionally terrible at your job.

The Colorado Times Recorder reports on ICE’s sprawling network of unofficial detention sites:

#tomorrow The next era of history starts.

If you have to keep asking, they don't want to do it. Find someone who has no issue giving you what you ask for.

My light so vast, it cast twenty foot shadows… (Wu-Tang)

Lynching has been a federal crime for exactly four years. Despite the legislation being first introduced by Representative George Henry White in 1900. He was the very last Black congressman after Reconstruction ended. it was finally singed March 29, 2022

Continuing the work after No Kings Day. #Minnesota

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

New episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...

For the love of reading. #booksky

Does this look like a country who plans to vote for the GOP! Hell NO! This is why they are trying to disenfranchise us! No SAVE ACT! #makethosecalls #pinks

“An extraordinary new form of historical research.” SHIFTING LANDSCAPES An examination of urban enslavement in New Orleans, Louisiana #skystorians

The regime invaded Minnesota and lost — because ordinary people keep doing extraordinary things to protect their neighbors. The Twin Cities will take center stage on No Kings Day to honor the Minnesotans who transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. #NoKings

Hi Twin Cities folks! I just realized @bridgingmn.bsky.social, our local nonprofit is on here! Check them out and give them a follow 🙂 (also donate or volunteer, if you can!) #TwinCities #Minnesota bridging.org/about-us/

🎸✊ NO KINGS MINNESOTA ✊🎸 THE FLAGSHIP. The one the whole country is watching. NOON TODAY — Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul Bruce Springsteen performs. Joan Baez. Jane Fonda. 100,000 expected. MN leads the nation. 🇺🇸🏛️ #NoKingsMN #NoKings #Minnesota #StPaul #Democracy #Springsteen #March28

Happy to see my @shearites.bsky.social Presidential Address "The First American Republic: An Alternative Genealogy" (expanded version) out in print in the Journal of the Early Republic Spring issue. Get your copies folks! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56474?...

Macalester College celebrated the life and work of Pamela Horowitz and Julian Bond in conversation with Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Duchess Harris, and the students of the American Studies department. #civilrightshistory

Rep. Casten is a terrific follow, often providing clear takes on the current House shitshow like this one

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." AG Bondi v. the U.S. Constitution.

Social Justice Symposium. Hamline University. #Blackademics

For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from parents, and two of our neighbors were killed by federal agents. I’m establishing a council to document the impact of Metro Surge and create a public record of the harm Minnesotans endured. We will not forget.

We stood together to say No ICE. This Sat, 3/28, we'll stand together & say No Kings. No War. Yes Democracy! Join us at No Kings Twin Cities at the Capitol in St. Paul. Sign up at stv.fm/a0pk8n Springsteen. Jane Fonda. Keith Ellison. Peggy Flanagan. Bernie Sanders. Joan Baez, and more!

Once I got started on this piece, the numbers started talking to me, and by the end they were screaming. So I feel like I've got to share it with you: The Federal Employee Crisis Nobody's Talking About. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQuz...

This.

Amazing discussion of selecting NAS for the title of your amazing book, Dr. Greason, and all of the ties you are bringing to 'Sinners' as illmatic consequences