Black history IS American history ✊🏾📚🔥 No attempt to erase slavery or silence our story will succeed. As @ASALH reminds us: museums aren’t built to comfort—they’re built to teach. Even when the truth is bloody. We will not be erased. @OurTimePress https://t.co/eHicOl89Jm

On this day in 1966, 250 Black students were attacked for trying to integrate schools in Grenada, Mississippi. Twelve years after Brown v. Board, the city maintained fully segregated schools. https://t.co/uckl9dkxfk

On this day in 1895, South Carolina officials met to rewrite the state constitution. Their work resulted in a new constitution that successfully disenfranchised Black voters for nearly 70 years. https://t.co/WLlZ5kLFtS

I had the chance to join the Truce Podcast to discuss my work on Boston and the history of school desegregation. If you’re interested in the intersections of race, education, and freedom struggles, I’d love for you to check it out: 🎧 https://t.co/it5Jz46laq

Yesterday I spoke about Malcolm Lives! on Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton, who was 10 years old when Malcolm X was killed. Malcolm’s widow, Betty Shabazz, was the godmother of Rev. Sharpton’s two daughters. Check out our extended conversation. Malcolm Lives! comes out

Malcolm X turns 100 on May 19, 2025. To commemorate his birthday, I am proud to announce the first major biography of Brother Malcolm for young readers in more than thirty years: MALCOLM LIVES! The book is written in short, swift chapters that echo Malcolm’s trademark fast walk.

@BlackPRWire (BPRW) Amidst the Ongoing Attacks on Black History and Black Education and the Massive Layoff Impacting Our Community, ASALH Will Bring its Annual Conference to Atlanta September 24-28, 2025 https://t.co/xaNXp5F3Ph

#OnThisDay in 1915, Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. @ASALH continues to chart the past triumphs and current achievements of African Americans.

Today we honor our founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson—visionary historian, educator, & architect of Blk History Month. ✊🏾📚 On this #ASALHFoundersDay, we recommit to preserve, promote, and share the history and culture of people of African descent. Our story IS America’s story. 🇺🇸🖤

Today we honor Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of @ASALH & Father of Black History. His mission lives on. ✊🏾📚 #ASALHFoundersDay

How AI could save (not destroy) education (Sal Khan | TED2023) https://t.co/rUiyyRguXx via @TEDTalks

“What we’re seeing is not just political rhetoric — it’s the dismantling of decades of Black progress in real time.” — @zebulonmiletsky

📚 Hine-Horne Book Roundtable at #ASALH2025! Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution @PenielJoseph @DrIbram, @zebulonmiletsky @ToddAllen65. 🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 | ⏰ 4–5:30 PM 📍 Int’l Ballroom C – M2, North Tower Register 👉 https://t.co/OqgnJimTm1

As President Trump dramatically steps up his use of military force, fellow Republicans in Congress — where authorization for such actions is supposed to originate — have done little but cheer him on.

Black history IS American history ✊🏾📚. We stand with our colleague @zebulonmiletsky in affirming that no attempt to erase slavery or silence our story will succeed. Africana Studies is committed to truth-telling, even when the truth is bloody. 🔥 @SBUArtsSciences @stonybrooku

Black history IS American history ✊🏾📚🔥 No attempt to erase it will succeed. We stand firm. #HandsOffOurHistory

Landlords have been despicable in gentrifying areas of NYC by illegally pricing out long term tenants. The article mentions tactics like “renoviction” which uses renovation to justify raising rent to a level many cant pay, while hiding the rent stabilized status of an apt. Awful

The #LittleRockNine integrated Little Rock Central High School 68 years ago today. In 2025, many are hard at work to prevent children from learning that this vitriol and racism existed then and that it exists now. But teaching truth in a love-centered way can shift our cultural

Bryan Hooper Sr is free after spending 27 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. A witness whose testimony helped put him there confessed to the crime, stating she wanted to "take responsibility for two innocent lives I have destroyed" https://t.co/FfQcxd1dLF

Introduction to Africana Studies is quite possibly the hardest course I’ve ever had to generate a syllabus for. Not sure it’s right yet. Nervous af. Going to try to show them something of the power starting today in class with June Jordan’s problems of language… essay.

In the 50s and 60s, the Army sprayed a potential carcinogen into the air of a Black St. Louis housing project. The government contends it was harmless. A group of residents today are leading the charge seeking compensation and health studies. They say the secretive testing