#Desegregation

Since we @UK_AAAS called for the removal of Rupp's name from the b-ball arena. Folks have for days told how wrong I am. I have seen the solid research produced
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September 15 begins #HispanicHeritageMonth — we’re kicking off the month by honoring a number of figures who historically have blazed a trail for the Hispanic American community César Chávez &
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Journalists, hello! Have you noticed a lot of people referring to themselves as futurists lately? It's true -- this is a thing. But interestingly, it's not the first time in
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After the Civil War, heroic individuals rebuild their lives and rededicated the nation. At the same time, angry and desperate men warped our politics in ways that still echo. Let's
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#OnThisDay 1951 NAACP civil rights attorney Z. Alexander Looby was elected to the Nashville, TN city council, which helped Black people make political advances in the south.Who was Z. Alexander
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Last year I spent about 6 months researching the history of the governance of the Boston School Committee (1974-1996). I sifted through documents from @ArchivesBoston, read years worth of news
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The last year these cities were at the population that they have today:Akron - 1919Buffalo - 1890Cincinnati - 1892Cleveland - 1900Dayton - 1917Detroit - 1914Erie - 1921Flint - 1921Gary -
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America is more than the sum of its parts, but that's because our strength comes from the diversity of our people. This National #HispanicHeritageMonth, our team is celebrating by honoring
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ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE FOR BLACK, INDIGENOUS, & PEOPLE OF COLOR ~ a thread (debunking all of the things Trump has “claimed” he’s done too) Okay
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Hey everyone, I wanted to talk about this Eric Metaxas tweet from yesterday, because there's a lot to unpack. If you aren't already familiar with Metaxas, he wrote a biography
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Most important city to understand America. This is going to be a thread on a long held secondary interest of mine, New Orleans’ history as a capital of a second
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What could #BlackLivesMatter mean for writers & scholars? I’ve been thinking about this over the last three days since @NathanJRobinson critiqued my study on the political consequences of 1960s
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This is not surprising to me. You can't teach 6th graders about "liberty and justice for all" then tell them their country started a race warNah, not the Civil WarThe
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So. We need to talk about the white terrorist movement, how apocalyptic evangelicalism and NRA/GOP propaganda fueled them, and why they see Trump and the pandemic as their chance to
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Okay. We have to talk about fascism, "patriotic education," and the very real threats facing this country.Here's what I found writing AMERICAN RULE and is the closest thing I know
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All right.Let's talk about how the Confederacy survived the Civil War, was absorbed into our culture, laws, and politics, and remains an everpresent threat we must destroy.I didn't know any
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