Here’s a great preview of the oral history. He is INCREDIBLE.

Last week I had the great honor of interviewing an 88 year old gay man with some of the most insightful stories I’ve heard. I knew he got caught up in a police raid at a gay bar back in the 60s, years before Stonewall. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. So fortunate to share his story.

Audiences Prefer Films With Diverse Casts, UCLA Study Finds UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report for 2025 reported that audiences prefer diverse casting in films, and the industry's need to focus on diversity.

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But...but SUPERMAGAWHITE1488 on Twitter assured me "go woke go broke"

Happy Publication Week to Rashauna Johnson's highly anticipated new book, Sweet Home Feliciana.

Available for purchase now
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Reckoning LIVE EVENT April 11 Kate Sheppard returns to talk The Mummy Returns

We’re taking Reckoning live in Denver.

On April 11, @k8shep.bsky.social and I are taping a live episode about The Mummy Returns, Egyptology in film, and everything Hollywood gets wrong about ancient Egypt. Join us. Details below.

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Another weekday lunch with my buddy Fred Fejes, whose work on LGBTQ Florida has inspired me for many, many years. We’ve known each other for over 20 years now!

And now, we are collaborating on a couple of things…including a new exhibition set to open this June. So excited to share more soon! ❤️ 🌈

QOSHE - This month marked the 40th anniversary of the cinematic release of Clue, which starred a stellar ensemble cast that included Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann War...

Getting a LOT of responses on my episode with @juliocapojr.bsky.social. But if you don’t like/don’t have time for pods, read his piece on the film Clue here. You’ll never look at the movie the same way again.

qoshe.com/time-us/juli...

Check out our conversation below! 👇🏽

This was such a blast! Thanks to @herberthistory.bsky.social for having me on his podcast, Reckoning with Jason Herbert.

The episode just dropped today and it’s all about my favorite movie, Clue! Oh, also lots of fun history and nerd banter! Check it out! 🕵🏻‍♂️

Omg @wingedisis.bsky.social! So good to find you on here! And many thanks! Big, big hugs! 🤗

A smattering of the guests, books, and films coming to the podcast soon. We’re bringing everybody. No one is doing history like us.

It’s me! :)

Spring season opening day! And the team voted me MVP! I hit 7 for 8! Oh, and I got my World Series champion ring! The road to another championship starts now!
🥎 🏆

What was immigration like before ICE? YouTube video by Vox

"How American immigration became law enforcement": a 15-minute @vox.com video explainer. "The rights that were won for Americans in the past are vulnerable. We have to fight to retain them." @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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😂😂😂

Eewwww

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

WTF?!

Preordered my copy! So excited to read it!

Eeeeek! Foto flashback! Me at 21. My work badge for my first journalism job: an overnight news writer for WSVN (Miami) Channel 7. 😆

Americans hate ICE!

Alright, let’s make it official. This Thursday @hcrichardson.bsky.social makes her first appearance on Reckoning with Jason Herbert.

We’re talking Lincoln.
We’re talking mythology.
We’re talking power.
We’re talking…vampires.

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One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

🙏🏼❤️🤗

Benito deserves this stage and far more. And I am just so happy we get to see him thrive, exude joy and confidence, and refuse to be silenced or to conform.

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In May 2020, I wrote a counter-editorial for Abusable Past about Bad Bunny. My love for him has only grown. It felt like an early love/admiration letter to someone who was doing such important cultural and political work. Tonight is going to be momentous! abusablepast.org/counter-edit...

Statement correcting administrative misinformation....


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#BTHOcensorship

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...