So @williamfleitch.bsky.social, for @theatlantic.com, calls @drderrickewhite.bsky.social's BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS "Fascinating...A rollicking read...Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the trajectory of modern football." And I agree! www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

OutKast released ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’ 22 years ago on September 23, 2003 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/OutKastSTLB

News: A group of athletes, led by two Vanderbilt football players, has filed a class action lawsuit to challenge the NCAA's redshirt rule, saying athletes should get all five years to complete.

234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹 www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

"Stormy Weather," starring Bill Robinson, Lena Horne and Fats Waller singing "Ain't Misbehavin" opened in theaters in 1943. The success of "Stormy Weather" and other similar musicals paved the way for further advancements in Hollywood's portrayal of Black characters.

Remembering Leroy “Satchel” Paige on his birthday (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) (I need to follow his “how to stay young” rules 😂) ⚾️🐐💙🕊

De La Soul released 'Stakes Is High' 29 years ago on July 2, 1996 album.ink/DeLaSoulSIH

What are your favorite songs from D'Angelo’s debut album ‘Brown Sugar’ (1995), originally released 30 years ago this week? Listen to the album + read our tribute here: album.ink/dangeloBS

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Ronald Reagan said this to Margaret Thatcher in February 1981 on her first visit to the White House: "Well of course, the South Africans are whites and they fought for us during the war. The blacks are black and are Communists." This account comes from the British Foreign Secretary who was there.

"The citation comes with a bequest by the Pulitzer Prize board of at least $50,000 in support of Ms. Wells’s mission. Recipients will be announced at a later date." eji.org/news/ida-b-w...

In the US state's coal country, crypto mining was supposed to bring renewal. Now mines are powering down, and investors are hoping AI-powered data centers will fill the void.

Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915.

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince released "Summertime" as the first single from 'Homebase' 34 years ago on May 20, 1991 album.ink/Summertime

#OnThisDay in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled to abolish school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, stating that segregation of public schools violated the 14th Amendment. It took so much blood, sweat & tears to make this happen. #They plan to get rid of it.

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Tony! Toni! Toné! released their second studio album ‘The Revival’ (1990) 35 years ago this week | Listen to the album, watch the official videos + read our tribute by @justinchadwick.bsky.social here: album.ink/TTTtherevival

Now THIS is a syllabus #booksky #blackbooksky www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...

"“Sinners” has grossed $122.5 million in North America and $161.6 million globally against a $90 million production budget." WHOA. The fact that an original movie starring people of color in the South, directed by a Black man, is doing well at THIS moment is beautiful. #Sinners

OutKast released their debut album ‘Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik’ 31 years ago on April 26, 1994 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/OutKastSPCM

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Less due process than even the internment of Japanese-Americans, one of the deepest sins in the history of U.S. rule of law (or lack thereof). From NYT.

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

Happy 35th Anniversary to A Tribe Called Quest's debut album ‘People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm’ originally released April 10, 1990 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/ATCQpeoples

Happy 35th Anniversary to Public Enemy’s third studio album ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ originally released April 10, 1990 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/PEfoabp

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

Ron DeSantis is pushing to let employers schedule children as young as 14 for an unlimited number of hours, including overnight shifts. At the same time, Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would let employers pay kids below minimum wage. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...

Phonte and Big Pooh of Little Brother announce their final tour: “Curtain Call”

I don’t dispute that the president is going after specific museums, but dudes let us be real that he is also going after all historians and history workers who express any amount of professional integrity

The rewhiting of US History continues with this Executive Order about "restoring truth" to how the Smithsonian presents US History. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

60 years ago today.. Civil rights activists, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., complete their 4-day, 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Happy #MarylandDay to all my fellow native Marylanders!🦀

DERIK QUEEN - Maryland wins!

Katz: Where does that confidence come from" Derik Queen: "I'm from Baltimore..."

DERIK QUEEN IS HERE

French researcher detained and deported because of “texts critical of Trump” 🇺🇸 We are far off the deep end here, folks. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.

🔥 SOUTH CAROLINA Rep. Jermaine Johnson: “You don’t like being called racist in here, but every time we give you a chance to show us something different you show us who you are.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHRKJy_...

Literally whitewashing history. The Civil War was peak wokeness. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This is a great piece. One thing it’s important for folks to recognize is that the right has been working to whitewash the way US history is taught and publicly discussed for over a century now. What’s relatively new is how aggressively they’re using the power of the federal government to do it.

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.

Junior Bridgeman, UofL basketball legend and billionaire businessman, dies at 71