“...it is accountability, which is the first step toward justice.” #SystemicRacism #justice #RacialEquity #worktodo

21 voices discuss the implications moving forward. Thank you for helping the rest of us understand, think, learn, act.

We can’t defeat hate with more spite. We can’t defeat dishonesty with more lies. We can’t defeat cruelty with more malevolence. We need love. We need truth. We need decency.

SO proud of all our students today!!!#DePaulGrad2021 DePaul SCPS DePaul University 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary #suchatwitterbaby 🤓🥳

OTD 200 years ago, Illinois State Legislature sets an 18-month debate in motion: Illinois voters would vote whether to change Illinois’s constitution to allow slavery outright. I explore how we got there and what happened as an @ILHumanities Road Scholar ilhumanities.org/caroline-%20ki….

Join Dr. Brian Miller Legally Sociable and graduate student, Kiffany Duggar for our conversation on The 21st Show, Monday, March 27th at 11:00AM CST!

Happening at 11AM CST! Join me, Dr. Brian Miller Legally Sociable and Jackson State University grad student, Kiffany Dugger for our conversation this morning.

Today's The 21st Show: Slavery's role in Illinois history, from the past through to the present. Our guests: -Dr. Caroline M. Kisiel of DePaul SCPS / Illinois Humanities -Kiffany Dugger, grad student at Jackson State U. -Brian Miller of Wheaton College will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story…

Tonight! Through @ILhumanities I'm presenting "Lives in Code: Stories of African American Resilience Under the Illinois Black Codes, 1819-1865" - free, virtual, hosted by The Urbana Free Library Champaign County Historical Archives, 6:00PM CST. ilhumanities.org/events/lives-i…

Sunday, July 16th in historic Equality, Illinois - sharing about a time of inequality in 1823/24 Illinois… @ILhumanities and Smithsonian’s Spark! Places of Innovation Exhibition Museum on Main St - #learnfromthepast #illinoishistory ilhumanities.org/events/did-bla…

Dr. Caroline M. Kisiel and I wrote an article - "Property and Racial Exclusion in Illinois: Patterns and Practices from Colonial Slavery to Suburban Marginalization, 1720s-2010s" - just out in the newest issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Link...