This is important! Climate Justice does matter and I’m proud that I had a chance to contribute to this great piece on the issue.

Environmental justice leader and #GoldmanPrize winner Hilton Kelley recites his poem, "My Toxic Reality." 📖 👇 Watch a recording here via @aspeninstitute. bit.ly/43OFmsb

#OnThisDay in 1957, Elizabeth Eckford, one of nine Black students, attempted to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Unlike the other eight, she had never received the message to stay away from the school. As she walked toward the school, a mob hurled racist

Congratulations to dr. giramata, PhD for winning the 2024 Cheryl A. Wall Graduate Student Paper Prize for "Black Atlanti[ques]: Trauma, Political Joy and the Possibilities of Black Feminist Storying Traditions!" Giramata completed her PhD in Gender & Women Studies at the U of Arizona.

Freedom Ship, Marcus Rediker's new book is available for pre-order. Marcus's work has inspired the work of all of us writing about the Atlantic slave trade and he has been a very generous supporter of my work and the work of many others #slaveryarchive penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407/f…

This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the Apalachee High School shooting. Mason Schermerhorn, 14 His sister had circulated photos of him on social media when family couldn’t contact him. Because he was autistic, they thought he might have wandered off. 💔

Because we still live in a world in which people are forced to pay for their freedom, over the next year I’m going to be donating to bail funds in all the states where I worked on my book to commemorate its release. The call was abolition then. The call is abolition now.

Mason Schermerhorn was a 14-year old victim of the Georgia school shooting but WSB-TV initially circulated his picture as the suspect. Even when Black people are victims they’re not treated as such

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best journal article in Black intellectual history. See the link below for more details. aaihs.org/accepting-subm…

For more information on our movement, go to: aapf.org/sayhername #SayHerName

Year 40 in education. Year 30 in historiography. My second generation of grand-students starts now.

Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart, 1910.

Happy 70th birthday to Ruby Bridges! In 1960, she became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the South. A visual reminder of what she faced every day. —In 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the

Native Nations e-book on sale for $2.99 today on Apple Books or wherever you buy your e-books amazon.com/Native-Nations…

Was ecstatic to meet him almost 30 years ago. He changed the foundations of American cinema. Rest in peace, titan.

Rest in Power James Earl Jones.

Historian here a nice review of my new book in the Reconstruction era blog thereconstructionera.com/the-rise-and-f…

Excited to teach Michael Witgen’s Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, & the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (UNC Press). Anishinaabe people used multiple strategies to hold onto land, leverage place, & challenge settler colonialists uncpress.org/book/978146967…

"Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes." -- Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895 #TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc-c…