#Segregation

Anna Harvey

annalilharvey

Recently there's been lots of interest in alternatives to law enforcement. Many have also expressed concern about recent increases in violent crime.So: what non-law enforcement policies/programs have been shown specifically

Zinn Ed Project

ZinnEdProject

#tdih 1964 James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, & Andrew Goodman were tortured and murdered by KKK with help from deputy sheriff in Neshoba Cty, Miss. They had investigated burning of a

Elting Lab

EltingLab

I am so excited to share our new preprint we recently posted - a first for the Elting Lab! I'm gonna do a little thread about the main results of

Midwest People's History

MPHProject

THREAD:As police and politicians insist that this wave of uprisings is the sole work of "outside agitators" to justify violent crackdowns, now's the time to revisit the long, racist history

ヨウ/Yeo

yeomk2

To English followers, I apologize for many Japanese posts over the last three days. There was a debate about the pros and cons of calling heterosexual shipping "NL(normal love)" in

Mississippi Endemic

MississippiEnd1

The state of #Mississippi @msdotgov is under the HIV endemic. The greater part of new HIV diseases in the United States happen among African Americans in the Southeastern United States.

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Everyone's talking about impeachment and Clinton & Johnson as the only presidents ever impeached. But most people don't know WHY Johnson was impeached.So let me tell you the story about

Will McAvoy

WillMcAvoyACN

So, since Donald Trump has (falsely) claimed over the last few days that Joe Biden wants to destroy the suburbs, let's take a look at the history of suburban America,

Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD

marthasjones_

Tomorrow , August 6, we mark 55 years since the Voting Rights Act became law. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 For the women of Vanguard, this was their 15th and 19th Amendments rolled into

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

What Black Americans do significantly affects the United States. Indeed, it's her own, very famous, thesis that this is insignificantly appreciated. In 2016, many Black Americans didn't vote at all.

ACLU

ACLU

Today is the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 March on Washington.Half a century later, against the backdrop of

Alana Jones

alanacjones_

I’m still thinking about a recent exchange in the context of a larger pattern of strangers both online and irl being condescending to me on topics I’ve studied deeply. Part

John Schmalzbauer

OzarksWatcher

Visited site of the first sermon, the first service and the first congregation in Springfield, Missouri, held in a log cabin built by enslaved men and women for the use

Jeff Pastor

votePASTOR

Transportation (LIGHT RAIL) thread: Cincinnati needs BOLD leadership to tackle our legacy of disinvestment in transportation! To be a Great American city, we must lead like one. “Make no little

Shannon Keating

skeatings

Because anti-trans bigots claim that trans people must be kept out of women's spaces for "safety" reasons, I'd like to share some insights from a story I wrote a few

David R. Swartz

davidrswartz

A historical puzzle: How did living in India provoke a white missionary from the American South to join the civil rights movement? #facingwest @E_StanleyJones In 1907 23-year-old E. Stanley Jones