Ashley D. Farmer
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Historian, Professor, Writer. Author📚:Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed An Era. Next 📚: Queen Mother Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism
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Like so many bell hooks was my introduction to a tangible& rigorous feminist politic. But what I return 2 in this moment, as we navigate CRT attacks, is her claim “the classroom remains the most radical space of possibility” it’s why they target it & why we must hold this space.
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Part of Ye's "genius" is his ability to manipulate Black Power phrases, principles, & people over beats. He uses movement iconography to gain Black legitimacy while serving white supremacy. In
@harpersbazaarus
I talk about how he does this & how his mama taught him better!
How Kanye West Uses the Language of Black Liberation to Support White Supremacy
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I just don't know how folks can keep waking up to news of police killings over & over again, have folks contextualize these killings as part of a centuries long history of lynchings & state violence,& then think that anything but abolition is the answer..
#KenoshaUprising
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The former AHA president saying that his "actual target" in the article was “professional historians who believe that social justice should be their first port of entry, which is not the way that we’ve traditionally done history" tells you everything you need to know...
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It’s
#NationalLibraryWeek
! As may us know, libraries are an absolutely amazing resource that are currently under attack. Wondering what you can do? Here are ten things ways to help your public library!
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🧵If
#RosaParks
was the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, then Queen Mother Audley Moore midwifed modern Black Nationalism. Moore lived for almost 100 years. Her career spanned Garvey’s UNIA to the Million Man March. Yet, WHERE the records of her life are remains a mystery..
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imagine thinking that your historical practice is devoid of politics and that people have the option to do some kind of historical work that is totally outside of social, moral, justice, or ethical contexts ...
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#WOCAffirmation
: My book
#RemakingBlackPower
will be out soon! Intellectual/ social history of black women radicals!
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Historians wrote some incredible books this year! Check out this great list of the "Best Black History Books of 2020" from
@AAIHS
and
@BlkPerspectives
..
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Check out: Disorderly Distribution:The Dispersal of Queen Mother Audley Moore’s Archives and the Illegibility of Black Women Intellectuals
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There would be no
#ReparationsHearing
without the founder of the modern reparations movement, "Queen Mother" Audley Moore. Learn more here in my article in
@washingtonpost
: "The Black Woman who Launched the Modern Fight for Reparations"
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Amazing! This 10-week strike got no where near the coverage & support it deserved but it will hopefully be remembered as a turning point for academic labor organizing nationwide
After 10 weeks, the strike is over! We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement with
@columbia
. This is a historic moment for labor in higher ed, and it is just the beginning. We look forward to getting back to work and compensation for our back work.
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In my new article in
@TheBlackSchlr
,I talk about what it was like to try to track down Moore’s archive, what we REALLY mean when we say a Black woman doesn’t have an archive, and ask do we really want radicals like Moore to be confined to one repository?
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Sharing this doc with shelters, ways to donate, and other info in the hopes it helps some in
#texas
metro areas tonight
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...about how they think history is for, what they think its about, who gets to "do it" and who is a "professional" and therefore who gets to be a part of the "profession"
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Excited to announce that the
@UNC_Press
Black Women's History Series Submission Guidelines are now live!
If you have a book that centers Black Women,
@DainaRameyBerry
,
@TLeFlouria
and I would love to hear from you!
Learn more about the
#BWHseries
here:
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I have joined with over a hundred faculty at UT Austin in support of free speech, protecting Palestinian and Muslim students, and calling to reinstate two TAs in the Social Work school as a form of retaliation for their support of these students.
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Some say people ransacked her apartment, taking her statues, paintings, and books when she was in her final days in a nearby New York City nursing home. Others say her records are now in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia—an ode to her unwavering support of the free Black nation.
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Let
@KeeangaYamahtta
help us remember that these institutions weren't designed for & wont save us. But nothing HAS to be this way. We can & should let go of the idea that 9 ppl appointed for life should determine our lives and build what work for us.
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I spent years researching what is now Remaking Black Power at the Schomburg Center and wondering if it was even a viable dissertation project.
Very rewarding to see the final product in book form featured in the
@SchomburgCenter
store
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Online and free to read, my article: "Tracking Activists: The FBI’s Surveillance of Black Women Activists Then and Now"
As promised, the link to the articles is attached. The digital download and print copy will be sent to OAH members. If you’re not an OAH member, and would like a copy of the print issue, the link includes the directions for how to purchase a copy!
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Woke up to awful news that
@garrett_felber
was fired for speaking the truth: that U of Mississippi prioritizes racism over education. Garrett is is a committed scholar and activist who consistently and doggedly does the work. Please read the article and about how you can support!
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Today is a good day to remember that there are other historical associations out there expressly interested in debating, discussing, and contextualizing the present in accessible forums and via a diversity of scholars...also with lower membership fees and fun conferences! 🙃
Today on
@BlkPerspectives
:
@AAIHS
President
@DrHettie2017
introduces our forum on "Black Women and Reproductive Rights": "It is impossible to understand the overturning of Roe without grappling with the dynamics of race, gender, and class."
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As we end
#BHM
let's not forget that the FBI surveilled, repressed, and jailed Black women activists too.
Mae Mallory was one of many Black women that the FBI hunted for her beliefs and political associations. I tell her story for
@TeenVogue
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In An Open Letter to the Producers and Directors of
#WhoKilledMalcolmX
@KeishaBlain
,
@JeanneTheoharis
& I demand we do better in including Black women activists & scholars in histories like this. It's a disservice to the past & present if we dont.
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“we are each other’s harvest:
we are each other’s business:
we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Anyone seen bail fund info for the Columbia kids ?
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Excited to be a
@RadInstitute
fellow next year! It will give me the chance to work on my new
@uncpressblog
book on Queen Mother Audley Moore. Check out all the great work the incoming fellows are doing here:
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After a weekend of protesting, the question on my mind has been: what does the new world we are fighting for look like? One of the best things about a historian is getting to be a student of all the different ways Black people have imagined different realities....
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Me for
@washingtonpost
The significant increase in Black women congressional candidates during this year of unrest is not without precedent. Want to see Black women making history? Look to Congress
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The new Ida B. Wells fellowship is looking for investigative reporters of color
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Are there any students or independent researchers in the College Park, MD area who are willing and able to do paid research at the National Archives? If so, DM me!
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Book will be out this fall
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (UNC Press)
#blktwitterstorians
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Many believe that a 1978 fire destroyed her artifacts. Yet, I have met activists in New York who appear at protests and events claiming to have her archive and to be wearing her clothes and jewelry.
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These stories show that Moore’s archive exists, but spread across formal and informal collection sites and therefore rendered illegible when viewed through traditional archival processing and research practices.
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this is why I cant quit the internets no matter how hard I try right now😂 😂
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Live action shot of all the professors trying to meet all these December 1 recommendation deadlines... Lawd have mercy why does everyone make the deadline right after the break !!
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we are only 1 week away from the launch of the Black Women's History Series at
@ABWHTruth
Symposium.
@TLeFlouria
,
@DainaRameyBerry
and I can't wait to see what great new histories come out of this
@UNC_Press
Series. if you are attending
#ABWH
be sure to join us!
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After reading my
@ChronicleReview
article, "Archiving While Black": the librarians at UT's
@BriscoeCenter
sent me this video of Historian John Hope Franklin speaking about his career and the racism he experienced while researching!
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Seems like a good day to run this gem by
@KeeangaYamahtta
back.
#SCOTUS
is illegitimate but powerful. How do we create a country and political system where 9 people don't overdetermine the fate of millions?
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When the editor of the major journal stands by article reviews that say: historians of Black history have to stop writing articles as if their historical figures were thinkers..
#BlackintheIvory
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I loved this piece because I got to learn more about her life, her people, and her thoughts about the world... not just her death:
#BreonnaTaylor
Family and Friends Remember Her Greatness
#SayHerName
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🧵1/We are excited to announce that FREE REGISTRATION is now open for the Un-Bioed: Radically Re-Imagining Black Women's Lives is now open! Here is a sneak peek of what those who are coming will get:
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A beautiful day and beautifully sight at the
#FreePalaestine
march in Montreal. The atrocities are hard to witness but the number of people marching globally yesterday used to be unimaginable. A reminder that we can and do change things together… happening before our eyes
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Excited to be chopping it up with
@drvholden
and
@jmjafrx
about "Black Women and Rebellious (Archival) Acts. I will be talking about Queen Mother Moore's "elusive" or "non-existent" archive.
Join us Thursday at 3pm EST. Register here:
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This is a beautiful thread. A moment to really let the fact that we have senselessly lost hundreds of thousands of people wash over you.
TODAY is the beginning of the National Week of Mourning for people we have lost to COVID-19, and of our Signs, Shrines, Collages and a Mixtape: A Remote COVID Vigil event, which runs all week. We are collaging, creating shrines, hanging banners and more.
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10/17: Join me for a FREE ONLINE event Queen Mother Audley Moore Part of
@ZinnEdProject
's Teaching the Black Freedom Struggle Classes.Will be talking about how Moore transformed 20th century radical activism & started the modern
#reparations
movement.
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Check it out the full piece in the
@AmHistReview
here: …
and let us know what you think!
(no paywall for first 30 days to download the pdf!)
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Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be: Barbara Smith and the Black feminist Visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
@KeeangaYamahtta
and the ever wise
@TheBarbaraSmith
!
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A Giant in every sense of the word.. thinker, activist, organizer, collaborator. What a loss!
Gloria Richardson, fiery civil rights activist in Maryland showdown, dies at 99
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🧵1.
@AMReese07
& I wrapped up the first iteration of our Freedom School: Archiving Student Activism. We had amazing speakers & student activists who all talked about the ethics and process of collecting student activism archives. Here are the highlights:
This week
@drashleyfarmer
and I are running a freedom school on activism and archives for UT students. It’s been a year-long development, and although we gone be tired AF this week, we’re excited!!
Here’s the cover of the workbook students will receive.
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Not surprised! When I submitted It was made clear by editors & reviewers that black women’s intellectual history was clearly seen as unimportant and not “real” history. yet folks stay saying that these are the journals we have 2 publish in to be promoted 🙃
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Talked to
@thelilynews
about Queen Mother Audley Moore and her founding of the modern reparations movement. Got loads more to share about her impact in my new book: Queen Mother Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism
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🚨🚨For a limited time
@uncpressblog
is offering folks a chance to read the first two chapters of my book, Remaking Black Power for free as long as they share with others. Check it out !
#BlackHistoryMonth
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🧵1/ Colleges & unis have always been sites where the battles over history, freedom of expression, & inclusivity are fought. The classroom and/or college as a contested space is not new, but the fight over WHO gets to be there & WHAT students get 2 learn shifts...
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This is a great time to learn more about
@ZinnEdProject
and support them. They offer an astonishing array of free resources and lesson plans for learning and teaching about the history most don’t get in school or textbooks.
Why is White House attacking ZEP? Because they are scared of all the teachers across U.S. who are teaching people's history, outside the textbook. Like lessons for gr 7+ below on long history of voter suppression and the ongoing fight for voting rights.
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Happy to share Queen Mother Moore's role in growing
#reparations
actvism for this
@yesmagazine
piece.
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first copies of
#RemakingBlackPower
are in hand! Still time to get 40% discount via
@uncpressblog
. use code 01REL40
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This is the most accurate tweet of all!
Academia is just saying “next week things should free up a little and not be so busy” over and over again.
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Applications for the Black Women's History Series Incubator are due July 1st!
We can't wait to learn about all the new work in Black Women's HIstory!
Are you writing a book about
#BlackWomensHistory
?
Learn more about our
#BWHSeries
incubator which will give selected applicants the opportunity to receive feedback on their work-in-progress from series editors
@drashleyfarmer
,
@TLeFlouria
, and
@DainaRameyBerry
.
Learn More
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6/3 years later, and with the leadership and help of
@CurwoodA
and
@phdshammy29we
, we are gathering again, this time in person for " Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives." A two-day conference of writing about Black women's lives.
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The University of Texas at "What starts here changes the world" Austin coming in at 25 tenured Black women out of 1439 faculty. A whopping 2% 🥴🧐
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Inspired by
@ProfessorCrunk
’s call for an Anna Julia “Cooperian” or Ida B. “Wellsian” frame in Beyond Respectability
@dancermlove
led my Black Women’s Intellectual Hist. Class in thinking of other schools of black womens thought guided by
@BarbaraRansby
@KeishaBlain
and others!
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Black Women’s Tireless But Practical Pursuit of Reparations - Women’s Media Center
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🧵1/ Way back in the before times,
@soulistaphd
and I would chat about the craft and community of writing Black women’s biographies. We would chat about writing choices, subjects, audience, and everything really!
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@prof_carrington
exactly devoid of historical analysis about who the historians are, how we got here... but also makes it clear who he is thinking of when he says "professional historian" is
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Excited and thankful to the
@WhitingFdn
for supporting my biography on Queen Mother Audley Moore! Can’t wait for more people to learn more about her life !
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant! Learn more about their artful and essential forthcoming books and read excerpts from their work on our website:
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Academics need Ms Patti’s beauty and the beast mirror when folks start talking crazy on these conference panels!
#Verzuz
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Excited to see that my post: "Archiving While Black" is
#5
on
@BlkPerspectives
Top 10 posts of 2018 . I had this post in my drafts about about a year until I worked out how to contextualize and talk about the experience of being in the archive
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Grateful to share some of my new work on the history of Black Women and COINTELPRO and how this history relates to
#BLM
surveillance today in this issue of
@TheAmHistorian
edited by
@Prof_Suddler
.
As the special guest editor of the September issue of
@TheAmHistorian
(
@The_OAH
magazine), I am honored to present “History for Black Lives.” Six months have passed since police killed
#BreonnaTaylor
in her own home. And, justice has not been done in her case.
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Excited to head to
#Rutgers
for the "Histories of Radical Black Women Symposium" along with
@ErikSMcDuffie
,
@racewomanist
, and Ula Taylor! If you are in the area, please come by!
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A good day to celebrate
#MalcolmX
as well as the many Black women thinkers that nurtured him and helped shape his thinking!
#MalcolmXDay
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so good to see members of the Black Women's Biography writing crew together at
#ASALH2022
. Reminded me to dig back into our resource guide and keep thinking about how the work we do requires a commitment to community and craft.
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We got so many great submissions for the Black Women's History Series
@UNC_Press
! It was so tough just to choose a few for our inaugural incubator, but
@DainaRameyBerry
,
@TLeFlouria
and I are excited to announce the selections for this year.
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Great to see bound Remaking Black Power page proofs at
@uncpressblog
booth at
#ASALH2017
. Out November 13th!
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🧵about 1.5 years ago I asked
@blackivists
if they would be interested in collectively thinking through both
#Archiving
While Black and being a Black Archivist for an issue of the
@AmHistReview
on "Confronting the Past."
As a fangirl, I was so happy they agreed!
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New issue with my article on black women’s organizing within
#Blackpower
organizations: “Abolition of Every Possibility of Oppression': Black Women, Black Power, and the Black Women's United Front, 1970-1976"
#twitterstorians
#blktwitterstorians
#womenalsoknowhistory
!! FALL 2020 ISSUE !!
Check it out here :
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We are celebrating Queen Mother Audley Moore tomorrow in her hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. It will be a great celebration with the city and her family:. If you can't join us in person, join us online via zoom:
or
Facebook:
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Mae Mallory was an amazing radical organizer. Excited that my Journal of Social History Article: “All the Progress to Be Made Will Be Made by Maladjusted Negroes”: Mae Mallory, Black Women’s Activism, and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition" is up:
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Black Women Radicals of the Past Offer the Best Hope for Our Future | Black Agenda Report
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So excited to finally see the special issue that
@ErikSMcDuffie
and I co-edited on "The Life, Legacy, and Activism of Queen Mother Audley Moore!" Check it out in the latest issue of Palimpsest (7:2). Also featuring
@KeishaBlain
,
@BabaAk
,
@PoetSanchez
and more!
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Our little mutual aid group is still going strong trying to help as many as we can. For several days we have been making meals, providing rent relief, hotels, and funds to people affected by the
#TexasFreeze
. We want to keep going ! Please donate if you can:
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One of the best things about community is getting to share resources. Check out this guide that
@soulistaphd
and I created based on our Black Women's Biography working group. Tips for developing story, audience, voice, & marketing
#blackwomensbio
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The Voting Rights Act was signed 55 years ago. Black women led the movement behind it.
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For the past year I have been working with the
@blackivists
on a project that centers their work, the experience of being Black in the
#archives
and being a Black archivist. This 3-part collaborative piece will appear in the
@AmHistReview
includes a convo...
Out today—with Adom Getachew,
@drashleyfarmer
, and
@Wribrarian
, we look at the work of the
@blackivists
, a collective of Black archivists working to preserve Chicago's Black cultural heritage.
#HistoryInFocus
@AmHistReview
@AHAhistorians
#twitterstorians
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Writing about
#blackpower
? Check out the new book series edited by
@DrIbram
and me!
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This is why the original Black Panther Party (Lowndes Co., AL) wanted basic community control by Black ppl being Sheriff, Medical Examiner, etc. They knew well the straight line from lynching, to the medical cover up, the police collusion, to DA dropping case
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Excited that my,
@uncpressblog
book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is one of
@publicbooks
's Public Picks for 2018. Check out the full article here:
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Friends! Our pup Ruby Dee has put on her prettiest pink outfit to be Bruiser Woods from Legally Blonde in the "Bark in the Park" Pet Costume Contest!
Please vote for her via the link below:
#BITP
#LegallyBlonde
#bendandsnap
#whatlikeitshard
#ellewoods
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Excited to see my piece on “Black Women and the FBI,” out in
@PublicBooks
new Anthology, "Antidemocracy in America." Pick it up to learn how all these tactics you see the FBI using today are not new, but instead perfected on previous
#blackwomen
activists
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1/ Since this has caught people's attention I'll add that those leading these orgs. are busy policing the bounding of the profession that they taking valuable attention away from resources & issues that are eroding the profession they allegedly so dearly love...
The former AHA president saying that his "actual target" in the article was “professional historians who believe that social justice should be their first port of entry, which is not the way that we’ve traditionally done history" tells you everything you need to know...
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👀 Remaking Black Power made an appearance in the new movie The Glorias
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