Happening Now: President Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the country. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

everyone who has been cursed to be near has heard me frantically say I am raising money for Fannie Lou Hamer Day in Winona, I just won a 10,000.00 crossing divides grant that will be used to fund our second annual celebration! We serious about Mrs. Hamer over here!

Today we visited the Fluvanna Poor House to document the cemeteries there…and found so much more than the final resting places of this county’s most disadvantaged residents. Led by our good friend and community history keeper Shawn Porter, we learned that one of the cabins…1/

Grant opportunity for maritime heritage preservation and/or conservation projects in Virginia!!! The deadline for pre-applications has been extended to May 31st!!!📣 📣 📣

New article with the brilliant New Left Urbanist in City & Community! Also happy to be in this special issue celebrating Du Bois and 125 years of “The Philadelphia Negro.” Thank you to Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana and Freeden Blume Oeur for their work on this!

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Still got work to do!

About 100 people including many UVA students are chanting “Free, free Palestine.” There is also a workshop discussing what to do if you are arrested. 29News - Charlottesville Maggie Glass

a small but growing group is gathering next to the rotunda at the university of virginia. the only cop i see at the moment is UVA police chief longo.
free palestine 🇵🇸

Fannie Lou Hamer said “until I’m free, you’re not free either, and if you think you’re free drive down to Mississippi…” I know today she’d say if you think you are free look at Gaza…don’t be afraid beloveds because a liberated Palestine will mean freedom for us!

Triangle folk! geography unc , UNC Center for Study of the American South, and epiloguebooksch are so thrilled to welcome J.T. Roane for two wonderful talks next week, on Thursday, 5/2, 6pm at Epilogue and Friday, 5/3, 3:30pm at Carolina/Hurston Hall at UNC Chapel Hill. Join us!

Congrats! And yes that’s some list!

I'm very excited that Prof. Birdwatcher aka Prof. Christy_Hyman will be coming to Dartmouth 🌲 for a talk on 'Mapping Interspecies Cooperation in the Underground Railroad' on 5/2 at 2:30pm in Carson 060! We can't wait to welcome you to the green place, Dr. Hyman!

Omg UT what tha???

Trying to process how in the span of like three days it became the default to send riot police on to campuses across the country if there was even a whisper of completely peaceful protest.

It's pub day for The Black Tax! Buy a copy online or at your local bookstore now. You will be shocked and dismayed by the history it tells, and amazed that a book about taxes could actually be engaging and compelling.

This is absolutely spot-on.

🧵. Much respect!

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I will be spending the next month in Northern California with 60 of my emergency management students from Mass Maritime doing wildfire recovery/mitigation with Team Rubicon. Will share more about the work later on! #EMGTwitter

I am a human doing. That's all for now. LOL.