Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

They arrived & they are beautiful! @prisonculture.bsky.social www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

Ending the year with Reconstruction means students have brought all of the content & skills learned throughout the year to our unit. It has been fantastic 💛

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

“When somebody wants us to lose funding, we’re going to lose it anyways. The difference is, did we lose it while bending the knee, or did we lose it while standing up for our values?” Chavarria said. “Either way, the outcome will be the same.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#tdih 1863, Combahee River Raid co-led by Harriet Tubman, freed nearly 800 people from slavery & destroyed Confederate supplies. ⬇️: links to Uncivil “The Raid” podcast with @chenjerai.bsky.social; @blackpastonline.bsky.social; lesson on abolitionists; books by Dunbar & Fields-Black; & more 🧵

If you absorb nothing else take this observation in fully. And here’s a gift link to the entire conversation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Hi loves! Before I go looking, does anyone have a risk assessment tool/survey/thing that they recommend? Specifically thinking about individual & group assessments around rapid response work 💛

#tdih 1921 Tulsa Massacre 🧵 Deputized white rioters murdered hundreds of Black residents & looted/burned to ground thriving Black community. 💔 An example (one of many) of institutionalized racism, including dispossession, in U.S. history. #Reparations www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/tu...

Today on #BookBreaks, Eddie S. Glaude discusses his book "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversary." Join us at 2 pm ET! This is a free online program for all ages. Register here: https://ow.ly/vswB50YMSty

Not an original thought, but the far right's use of gender is a subcategory of enforcing conformity in order to subordinate the individual to the movement/state. It's not only twisted and unhealthy on a personal level but fascistic on a socio-political level.

The Tulsa Race Massacre Happened 106 Years Today – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/05/31/t...

I’m sorry but… unnoticed by whom exactly?! Like… what?

It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….

Big umbrella & hyper-local organizing is such a lovely way to build relationships with neighbors 🥰 heart is full 💛

Pray tell: what in this life is not political?

Best take on the piece that I’ve seen 👇🏻

It might be a different robin, but I like to think that the nest that popped up on our outdoor speaker is a sign of starting again 🙏🏻💛

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

It is in this school choice space that our desire for artificial, individual freedom puts us in direct odds with our need for authentic connection with others.

Never would I have imagined that I’d be teaching an early US history course AND wow what an incredible year of learning! I’m forever thankful for @zinnedproject.bsky.social - their resources have created such a beautiful backbone for our study. This text is up next for me as I look ahead:

Finally reading this absolute GEM of a book! The storytelling transports me!

I really wish that this piece, written by a teen who has been working with her peers to protest her school board's relentless book censorship and the erasure of their school library's budget, would get the attention it deserves. bookriot.com/elizabethtow...

I mentioned AI in my commencement speech for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago and I did *NOT* get booed. It’s not the mention of AI; it’s the ideas you convey.

Did you know that Section 4 of the 14th Amendment (a Reconstruction Amendment) bars payments to insurrectionists? Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social of @the14thcenter.bsky.social offers an urgent, reader-friendly, legal & history lesson ⬇️ 🧵 sherrilyn.substack.com/p/trumps-ins...

Sports are expressive. Sports are passionate. There is a difference between taunting your opponent or being unsportsmanlike and celebrating a special accomplishment.

A High School was ROBBED of a State Championship The Mallard Creek boys track and field team was disqualified for taunting because Nyan Brown raised his hand before crossing the line to win the 4x400m relay. THIS ISN’T TAUNTING OR UNSPORSTMANLIKE #trackandfield #Sports #Running #RG3 #football

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

Teachers and schools are expected to fill every gap created by the evisceration of social services in this country, even as they're being fiscally strangled themselves. Schools are food banks, community clinics, de facto counseling ctrs..and then blamed when all those problems continue to worsen

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

What a time to be teaching Reconstruction 💔 It is an exercise in what could be… and what we have deemed “radical.” For current events on Friday, we’ll connect the 14th Amendment with current challenges to Birthright citizenship.

Our 2026 Robin’s Nest Observation Log had an unfortunate ending today. Sweet W and I found it on the ground with a hole… we talked about predator/prey relationships. The robin is back. Sitting on her empty branch. I wonder if she’ll start again 💛

Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully. A landmark reform by former Governor Phil Murphy in January will make the jury pool in New Jersey more representative of the state.

Either you're free or you're a slave. It's that simple. Racist lawmakers in the South are passing new laws that treat Black ppl like political chattel—a legal underclass that inflates white political power & eliminates Black representation in Congress. If this isn't your primary concern, you're lost

This afternoon, our entire school came together to cheer on our (and the opposing team’s) unified basketball team. It was just complete and total joy! Very best full-school event I’ve ever experienced 💛

Incredibly proud of my @bloomberg.com colleagues, who won a Pulitzer today for illustrated reporting for the graphic novel version of an incredible, harrowing story about “digital arrest” scams in India. Gift link to the graphic novel, will thread the feature below: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Blanching fiddleheads (means it’s spring-spring… as opposed to any number of false springs)

Exhausted by the “why can’t we all just learn to argue more humanely?” Think pieces as major Civil Rights legislation is rolled back.

This site took me down a good rabbit hole: magnifiedsand.com - I never knew that I should explore the Hidden World of Sand. You're welcome.

I organized the pantry after sweet W went to sleep this evening. Love a task like that! 💛

My latest in @truthout.org: Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans freed themselves in 1526 on land that became the U.S. 500 years later, during the #America250 hype, this history reminds us: freedom wasn’t given by men in powdered wigs—it was seized by the enslaved. truthout.org/articles/500...

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

Pushy reminder from one school librarian to another: if you can alter your challenge policy, put a clause in there that prevents people not in your immediate school community (parents, students, staff, board) from placing challenges and limits each request to 1 book at a time. 1/2

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Last words of James Broadnax, who was executed tonight in Texas

A helpful thread while we’re in the midst of our Reconstruction unit! (Also a welcome reminder to myself that just because I believe I’ve taught something doesn’t mean it has been learned)

When do people decide that a specific circle/group of people/ideology that has been shown to be harmful over and over again, should go? Why should certain people, ideologies & organizations be afforded endless benefit of doubt from the rest of us no matter how much evidence we collect at our cost?

“BPOA claims I’m now emboldened. If I am, it is not because the state’s attorney declined to prosecute me. With genuine gratitude to Sarah George for her decision, I do not need a state’s attorney’s permission to protect my neighbors.” vtdigger.org/2026/04/27/b...

Today is the anniversary of the day I sued my high school over Title IX for kicking me off the boys soccer team (for my own safety!🤣) , thus forcing them to create what turned out to be the winningest girls’ team in the state. I was a shy unpopular 15 yr old nerd, but I knew my rights. Know yours ✊

Perhaps this is what American public schools are missing? Ballrooms stop gun violence? Sign us up!