Kamar Samuels to be superintendent of New York City public schools is outstanding news for those who still care about school integration and equality. In the face of the national attacks on civil rights and dismantling of enforcement at the U.S. DOE this pick by Mamdani sends a powerful message.

For Black families, New Year's foods and traditions speak to shared culture, resilience, and hope. https://capitalbnews.org/black-eyed-peas-collard-greens-black-new-years/

Richard Smallwood has passed. They will call him a gospel music artist. He was that. But Smallwood was also one of the greatest composers - period of any modern music form. My heart is heavy. A great musical legend has left us. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Wow! 🤦🏾‍♂️

This is slavery.

Y’all…God knows I should be working on my own book and a few outstanding writing assignments, but THIS book has me in a chokehold! After my Texas prison farms book is complete, I’m definitely returning to slavery studies. I have some thangs to say!! 💪🏾💪🏾 Kudos to you, David McNally!!

Merry Christmas, folks! In these wild times, seek peace, joy, and happiness when and wherever you can find it. Here’s to an amazing new year as well! Hopefully…🥴🤣🎄🎄🎄

It’s wild so many people are willing to go to bat for prisons as a reserve for rural jobs when universities are better in every aspect for such a role.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM

I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...

YES INDEED

We are indeed living in a hellscape. Hopeless.

Glad Mamdani stood on business! 🤭🤭

Pauli Murray. The great Pauli Murray. Born 115 years ago today. She wrote the "Bible" of civil rights law. Coined "Jane Crow" before intersectionality existed. Architect of the Brown v Board arguments. Influenced Justice RBG. First Black woman Episcopal priest. Songs in a Weary Throat

The butter pecan muffins from Sam’s have me in a chokehold! For some reason, the Mounjaro allows me to eat too many of them in a day. 🤭🤷🏾‍♂️

This DOJ is absolutely corrupt! Disbar them all.

Thinking of Claudine Gay this morning.

Good morning! Texas is revising its K-12 social studies standards (TEKS) for 5.5 million kids, & the State Board of Education (SBOE) is meeting today to discuss their progress today. I will be live-tweeting (posting?) about anything that concerns social studies. Follow this thread for updates!

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

This!!

Love this! Cool photo and a much needed historical corrective!

Undergraduate research assistant found a delicious newspaper story about one of the Texas convicts I write about in my book. Easily adds another 5 to 8 pages to that chapter! I will call that a win! 💪🏾

The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

I can’t seem to figure out how to edit this draft without my footnotes going crazy. Maybe it’s time to migrate to Scrivener…finally. 🤦🏾‍♂️

WOW! PHILADELPHIA (AP) — US Mint ends production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move.

Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago. Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.

I remember a certain Harvard professor leading the charge to oust Claudine Gay from the university’s presidency. He seems to dodge all complicity in the Epstein mess, interestingly. 💅🏾🤷🏾‍♂️

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton. Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife

Why should the judgment of the wealthiest NYers be given deference? Simply b/c the victims of their choices don’t have money & power?

It's Election Day! Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards. Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

ok who did this? ☹️

I'm new here, but I just had to share! My book, The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory, is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop through @uncpress.bsky.social Follow along on my website: www.sharronconrad.com

"The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings, said Tuesday that Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom would 'overwhelm the White House itself,' which is about 55,000 square feet..." www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

Any leads on an affordable developmental editor for a first book (History)??

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“W/o urgent, sector-wide reform, the global academic publishing ecosystem is at risk of collapse. We urge academic institutions to weaken the link b/n academic reward & journal article output, & to adopt holistic approaches to evaluating academic performance.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique. The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc. If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.

Lord, I hope the energy on display today spreads and multiplies 1,000-fold in time for midterms, and if necessary, after the Supreme Court fully guts the VRA in June. We need all hands on deck! #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

Sadly, we don’t teach Reconstruction enough!! So many folks remain oblivious to where this country is headed. Buckle up! It won’t be pretty.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...