Confirmed: Assata Shakur has joined the ancestors. cubaminrex.cu/es/nota-de-p...

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

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This summer, I wrote about Paul Dama, a Boko Haram survivor and award-winning restaurant manager who had been detained by ICE. Yesterday, after 3+ months in custody, Paul was granted asylum (!!) He's still in detention - DHS has until Oct 23 to appeal.

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

I see the okra slander is back. Ppl using the colonial "s"-word to describe the rich and nourishing texture that gives this greatest of pods its full expression.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

NCPH had the pleasure of helping to shepherd this project, and it was exciting from start to finish.

We have just launched our new application cycle for long- and short-term fellowships at the JCB! Details at jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

The link still works! Join us this Thursday, Sept. 25 (6:00 Eastern) for a presentation introducing our report on Black History at the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. free and open to the public, but registration is required: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are still learning what this means, but it is massive. I was hired at my 1st position on an H1B visa. There is no way my university could have paid 100k & I seriously doubt other universities can. So research is going to be severely impacted by this move. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Breaking Silence, Former University President Claudine Gay Blasts Harvard’s ‘Compliance’ With White House Demands www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Register here! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sweet-...

If this report interests you, you should download it from the National Park Service website today!

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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

I'm happy to share that this report is now LIVE. Download it here to read: irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Re...

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

You’d think someone would say something. @wsj.com @jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/ins...

I think about this passage all the time these days. scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2368/

Confusion and Questions Inside the National Park Service #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education. Why does that matter? Well... www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com

To learn more about Harvard AAUP chapter's landmark legal victory last week and its implications for Harvard and for higher ed writ large, listen to our very own general counsel, Andrew Manuel Crespo, interviewed by our colleague and fellow AAUP member Archon Fung: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJV6...

I deeply admire my colleague Stephanie Rowe, Executive Director of @ncph.bsky.social. She has provided incredible, role model-worthy, ethically driven support to our research team for three years. Now, read her thoughts on neurodivergence and public history labor here: ncph.org/history-at-w...

Like Octavia E. Butler said, “When you have nothing to say, don’t worry. Simply say nothing.”

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Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site has so much amazing history in it. This will be an amazing addition. 🗃️

The cover features the marks of Anthony and Cuba Vassall, along with signatures by four of their children (Darby, Cyrus, and James Vassall, and Flora Vassall Maranday), as well as their grandchild, Catherine Vassall, and James's wife, Abigail Hall Vassall (daughter of Primus Hall).

For the past 3 years, I've been working on this project with Carla, our fabulous fellow researchers, the dedicated NPS staff at the Longfellow House, and dozens of descendants of the people enslaved there. Please join us as we introduce our work on Black History at the Vassall Estate (9/25, 6pm ET)

📢 An Invitation: Black History at the Vassall Estate Virtual Presentation Thurs, Sept 25, 6–7pm ET. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ft @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social, me, and a village of researchers & descendant community members who contributed to our forthcoming 200+ page report!

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Boston-area peeps: looks like the new-formulation COVID shots are now bookable at retail pharmacies (CVS & Walgreens) as of this morning. You have to claim that you have one risk factor, but the set of risk factors is pretty broad. (Also, it's a web form, not a cop. Fill it out however you want.)

We should all be paying attention here — land acknowledgments banned at Ohio State University www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This is a HUGE win for American higher education! #DefendHigherEd www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!

For nearly 15 years officials in Texas have been trying, often successfully, to whitewash histories of slavery and the middle passage through legislation and demands that textbook publishers change their texts on the subjects.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

“The idea that the Smithsonian should reflect any administration’s vision of history is more than problematic.” ~ @agordonreed.bsky.social

“The idea that all of this happened because, like, twelve professors at Berkeley used “Latinx” on their syllabi is just detached from reality, from my point of view.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social In full form www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

#nowplaying #musicsky youtu.be/1RloNkN53qA?...

Toni Cade Bambara said, “Too many of us still equate tone with substance, a hot eye with clear vision.” She also said, “Speaking one’s mind, after all, does not necessarily mean one is in touch with the truth or even with the facts.”

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"