This photo deserves thousands likes. My 90 year old grandfather made it to my graduation day.

In the weeks leading up to the most consequential election of my lifetime, there’s been a great deal of focus on Black men. But the group we should have been focusing on is white women — the nation’s largest electorate. White women are the only American women where the majority

Radical abolitionist John Brown was executed on this day in 1859 for trying to spark a revolution to free millions held in bondage. “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause.”

We only celebrate real patriots around here. 👀 #Jan6th

The #TuskegeeAirmen. Essential and impactful American History!

Do you know what an abolished department of education is going to mean for HBCUs? For inner city schools? For after school programs?

On this day 160 years ago, March 3, 1865, the Freedman's Bank was created. For more about the bank's history, check out my book "Saving and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank." wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

“As faculty we’re preparing you for the future that you deserve, the future that you earned, and they’re trying to rob you of that today, and I’m here to say that sh!t ain’t gonna happen!!!” #NoSB1 #OSU thelantern.com/2025/03/buckey…

In light of Trump’s attempt to rewrite American history by whitewashing the Smithsonian and restoring white supremacist monuments, now is the time to learn from the civil rights movement, to help us resist and to build something better when we win. Let’s start next week! ✊🏽

I’ve told the story many times. Now Kate Masur and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

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June 10, 1992

Trump removed Medgar Evers, a fearless veteran and civil rights leader, from an Arlington Cemetery website commemorating Black soldiers. Now the Pentagon may strip his name from a naval vessel. This isn’t about “military preparedness.” This is about erasing history.

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification by Gus Wood

Harriet Tubman is a U.S. military hero, and I, along with my colleague and Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson, detail why Secretary Pete Hegseth should not strip her name from the USNS Harriet Tubman in this Washington Post opinion piece. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Historian here certain people have always hated PBS and NPR.

The @WhiteSox have won 7 of their last 10 games!

Tyson Bagent is in tears at the podium discussing his contract extension. He said his dad didn’t have running water growing up. This money is going to change his family.