November 2025: Presentations & Podcasts Migration & Names, Genealogy Quick Start, November 2025 This was a busy month! On Tuesday evening, I was a special guest on Shamele Jordon's Genealogy Quick Start on the Migration and Names episode, talking about my third great grandfather in The Many Names…

🧬 We're re-releasing our most popular Season 6 episode: The Fall of #23andMe, where @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social joined us to talk about #DNA tests, genetic privacy, and even #eugenics: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

Whew! Endogamy is a BIG THANG in my family. Uncles and nieces, first cousins...Learn all about it here.

Great conversation with @rediscoveringlatinidad !#CousinMarriage shapes families, economies, religion & local government, between the eighteenth & late 19c. Those dispensas hold all kinds of stories #eww

Registration is open for Finding Moses Williams, a virtual event on 19 November 2025. Follow the link to sign up!

Thanks to @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social, @efsacco.bsky.social, @shamrockgen.bsky.social & everyone who appeared on Season 6!🎙️

Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale A few weeks ago, I saw a hint on my Ancestry family tree for Estevan Vale Caban. To my great surprise, it included a photograph! Could it be my great uncle?  After finally locating the origin of a foto for Estevan Vale in…

Celebrating My Phyllis Wheatley Award Recognition Thrilled to announce that I was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Award for my article "Not Yet Completely Free"!

So honored to receive the Phyllis Wheatley Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP), for my recent article "Not Yet Completely Free: Gradual Emancipation and the Family of Moses Williams, Philadelphia 1776-1833" AAHGS Journal v43! Hahom to many who helped!

So my read of this is that they are hoping this will go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will rule in their favor by gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is to say that science funding is their trojan horse for legalizing resegregation in all facets of American life 🧪

I know it's one of our longest standing major global exports, but I would really like it if America would stop trying to find new and varied— or, hell, even our time-tested— ways of doing eugenics.

In a new body of work on view in NYC this week, Elina Chauvet stitches a line between delicacy and brutality, using embroidery to approach the seeds of spousal abuse and subjugation that germinate into violence.

"They're disappearing people off the street how is this America??????" www.history.com/articles/fug...

Appreciate the mention! It’s a 16 detail packed minute interview with Bernice Bennett on Williams’s family and what we can learn from their lives as part of the Free Black community in early 1800s Philadelphia. For more, see AAGHS Journal v43 Winter issue

From what I have been told, the owner had to resign in order for jer to by back the company. Of course, I will delete my dat if a Plecker buys the company. Holding steady for now.

Now's a good time to revisit our episode on the Fall of #23andMe, with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

The inventions of former slaves are often erased from text books and history books. Their ideas were stolen by white people who got rich off them all while they continue to portray Black people without knowledge www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

The Plunder of Black America “concludes that the history and long shadow of racist plunder continues to be felt ‘in the form of poor health, fewer educational opportunities, lack of credit, food apartheid & spatial mismatch between housing & jobs”-Glenn Altschuler🙏🏽 www.flcourier.com/entertainmen...

🧬 We're back! 🔥Our Season 6 premiere tackles the Fall of #23andMe with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social! We cover DNA privacy concerns and how DNA helps many people of color trace families beyond recent generations. Download, like, subscribe: rediscoveringlatinidad.com

Here are some of the government documents The 19th preserved amid the Trump-Musk purge: *Maternal mortality data (CDC) *Abortion and contraception data (CDC) *Reports on violence against Native American women (DOJ) *Research on mental health of girls and LGBTQ+ youth 19thnews.org/2025/02/fede...

#genealogy #FamilyHistory #RecordAccess #NewYork Upcoming deadline to speak out against new rules for Vital Records access in New York State (and NYC before consolidation). Act before February 11th! More details in next skeet. www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...

You can read more about Irish-born William Payne in Margaret Seidler's book 'Payne-ful Business' payne-fulbusiness.com

Ruth Hallows is the first person in the United States from her urban Tsimshian community to hold the skills to craft Chilkat dancing blankets.

#DNA Painter with @dnapainter.bsky.social familytreewebinars.com/webinar/begi...

The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.

Trump has disbanded the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The group’s work was grounded in “the fundamental belief that creativity, diversity, and democracy are intrinsically bound, and that the arts and the humanities can be a powerful force for social change.”

All right y’all, so here’s the deal. We’re struggling. Our monthly goal is to sell 1500 books. This month, we’ve sold less than 400. We need your help. We HAVE to sell 1500 books by the end of Feb to keep our doors open. This was supposed to be a video, but Bluesky can't do 2 mins of video(Thread)

RFK’s racist blathering harkens back to the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia where Black people—told we were immune—were asked to care for the perishing and neglected sick. 10% of free Black Philadelphians died.

Part of a generation of Indigenous artists who worked to “break the ‘buckskin ceiling,’” the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is known for merging humor and socio-political commentary with poetic depictions of Native American life.

If you’re going to the MJK tribute at BAM tomorrow be sure to check out the ‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ documentary about the South African photographer Ernest Cole. Scholar @johnedwinmason.bsky.social reviewed it for us last fall and it’s a must read. 📷

From fundraisers to mutual aid drives and emergency grants — here’s a running list of resources to help artists impacted by the LA fires.

a collage-style painting named As Time Goes By by Ekua Holmes with alt text

Wow! Reclaim the Records won against the US Dept of VA, and have online "the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans who served from the late nineteenth century to mid-2020." They built an interface to order the records, online! www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-requ...

~*~ FREE FILES FOR FESTIVUS! ~*~ We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON! And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans! And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!! mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...

During #slavery, the holiday season was a brief chance for the enslaved to plan escapes and rebellions amid distracted owners. A historian tells the story of resistance: https://buff.ly/3BGaYXo 🗃️ #BlackSky #EnslavedPeople #christmas

The Republic of Benin will grant citizenship to descendants of enslaved peoples. An article at Africa News that I am glad to gave contributed to #slaveryarchive www.africanews.com/amp/2024/12/...

Very proud to help announce the launch of our new graduate-run literary and arts magazine VARIANTES. I'm telling you, our grads are killing it! Special shout out to Ana (2nd year) who took on the gargantuan role of lead editor and doubled-down as web producer. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Who Owns Black Data is back!! Did you miss us? Don't worry, we have been generously funded by the Mellon foundation to do 3 more and a conclusion. Next round at Yale with the whole gang. I can't wait to welcome you in person or virtually. More info coming early next year! #whoownsblackdata

Page proofs are here

Excited to end my grad course on race, rights & resources with Nitasha Tamar Sharma‘s brilliant Hawai’i is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (@dukepress.bsky.social) searching & vibrant ethnography of Blackness in Hawaiian contexts read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2... #skystorians

En pré-commande: L'Hérétique de Cacheu: lutte pour la vie dans un port d'Afrique de l'Ouest au XVIIe siècle, nouveau livre du cher historien Toby Green est une micro-histoire magnifique en ayant comme centre une ville ouest-africaine #slaveryarchive t.co/oaibnvZUAI

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

#OtD 1 Dec 1919 during a strike by dockers in Trinidad & Tobago, strikers attacked working warehouses, ran off the scabs and marched on the city. Within days the strike was general, and the British colonial regime was on its knees. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory....

Shared cM Project Tool now available in additional languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, and Slovak #genealogy #DNA dnapainter.com/blog/shared-...

#Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025: The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir (Basic Books) by historian Martha Jones out in March 2025, pre-order below www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/marth...

Also from last week: the #Slaveryarchive most anticipated books of 2025 by our dearest historian Toby Green, The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a 17th Century West African Port (Penguin/Allen Lane) out in July 2025 and soon after in the USA t.co/cUry330KQr

Our #Slaveryarchive most anticipated books of 2025 continues: The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made ( @yalepress.bsky.social) by Calvin Schermerhorn out in February 2025, pre-order here t.co/BUi69rcoWC