Christopher Tounsel
@ctounsel1
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Believer | Happily married @tntounsel, dad | Historian & Director of African Studies, Univ. of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell)
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Joined February 2021
This young man participated in the June 1944 landings in Normandy. His name was Medgar Evers.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now we stand by each other always. William T. Sherman Born February 8, 1820
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Next Wednesday, UW African Studies will host Bright Gyamfi @Gyamfi_PhD @UCSanDiego for a virtual lecture entitled “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960-1980.” Registration link is below, hope you can make it! Link:
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RT @AAIHS: 👉🏾Our conference theme this year explores Slavery & Its Afterlives. This is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the p…
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When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist. Hélder Câmara Born February 7, 1909
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Grateful to see my April 2023 article on the Sudanese civil war cited in a new British government report on the security situation #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Lady, Lady, I saw your heart, And altered there in its darksome place, Were the tongues of flames the ancients knew, Where the good God sits to spangle through. Anne Spencer Born February 6, 1882
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway. Simeon Strunsky Died February 5, 1948
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RT @seattletimes: NEW: The University of Washington has named Robert J. Jones, a chancellor for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to…
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye. Langston Hughes Born February 1, 1902
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RT @LesothoJohn: A giant of the field of #AfricanHistory has fallen. Kenyan historian Bethwell #Ogot passed today, aged 95, after an infl…
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RT @londonvinjamuri: Kiah earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she served as the president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She ea…
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RT @DukeAAAS: "There is no easy way to describe what it is to be racially, bodily, devalued and at the same time to provide—in land, flesh…
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RT @YasirZaidan91: On my latest article for @WPRevie, I highlight the RSF's attack on Sudanese Christians and urge the Trump administratio…
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A six story tall rubber duckie now sits atop a Seattle parking garage. The world needs more of this.
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Anancy is a spider Anancy is a man; Anancy’s West Indian And West African. Andrew Salkey Born January 30, 1928
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This brightened my day!
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RT @BlkSocWithQTNA: Done teaching for the day and now I’m preparing to read for the rest of the afternoon!! 📖 So excited to be at the page…
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RT @CulturedModesty: Call for Papers : Black Women’s History in the Twenty-First Century: Engaging the Future | The Journal of African Amer…
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I believe the blues and jazz and even the rock and roll stuff got their beat from the Sanctified Church. Mahalia Jackson Died January 27, 1972
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