From stolen land to the fight for voting rights—Holmes County, Mississippi, has been at the center of America’s struggle for justice.
BORROWED LAND, STOLEN LABOR, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT chronicles the farmers, church leaders, and families who changed history.
📖 Learn their story : buff.ly/TPbmR6K
"Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi," by Diane T. Feldman, University Press of Mississippi, 2025.
Today's featured book:
"Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi," by Diane T. Feldman, University Press of Mississippi, 2025.
@dianetfeldman.bsky.social @upmississippi.bsky.social
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Borr...
#ICYMI: University Press of Mississippi's 🔥📚 #Juneteenth Reading List 📚🔥, with recent and forthcoming titles that celebrate Black life, history, and the ongoing struggle for justice and equality
www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...
🎉 Two UPM books are up for a 2025 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work!
👏 COMICS AND MODERNISM (Najarian)
👏 FROM GUM WRAPPERS TO RICHIE RICH (Barnholden)
We’re honored to see them recognized!
#EisnerAwards #ComicsStudies #UPMississippi
MSU told departments to remove words like “access,” “minority,” “bias" and “discrimination” from official websites, Engagement Librarian DeeDee Baldwin said.
“Pretty much anything that acknowledges racism exists has to be taken off. Anything like diversity is a bad word," she said.
Wait a minute! Are you saying there are some people who would use our democratic system to undermine democracy? Man, that’s crazy.
Love seeing WADING IN: DESEGREGATION ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST continue to make an impact. 🎉
In his full review, James C. Giesen compares Amy Lemco's book to the work of John Dittmer and Charles Payne—some of the highest praise a civil rights scholar can get! 😊📚🔥
📗 BORROWED LAND, STOLEN LABOR, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER AND EQUALITY IN HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI by Diane T. Feldman (@dianetfeldman.bsky.social)
Coming in July!
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Borr...
See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate.
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
📸 Bold. Baroque. Unapologetically New Orleans.
GEORGE VALENTINE DUREAU by Howard Philips Smith celebrates the life & work of one of Nola’s most iconic artists. Through stunning photography & rich storytelling, this book captures Dureau’s flair, his reverence of the human form, & deep love for Nola.
A TONE PARALLEL TO DUKE ELLINGTON dives deep into the sound, style, & cultural impact of jazz composer & icon Duke Ellington. Through powerful essays, this collection explores Ellington’s art as both personal expression and social commentary—always in tune with the world around him.
#JazzStudies
🖤 “More and scarier monsters, always.”
We’re thrilled to see GLOBAL INDIGENOUS HORROR, edited by Naomi Simone Borwein, featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books! Vanessa Evans dives into this groundbreaking anthology and how it challenges genre, culture, and colonial narratives.
👉 buff.ly/GZkFhJE
Hello BlueSkyers! Just a reminder that my book is out in less than 90 days so order now at the pre-order price. Amazon link is below but also available through University Press of Mississippi or Barnes & Noble. Buy if you are interested in #MississippiHistory.
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Tons of food USAID bought from USA farmers is rotting at the Port of Houston. Due to Elon’s ax-wielding at the agency, no one is overseeing where the food should go. DOGE is WASTING billions of dollars #Voices4Victory
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@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: “It has always been Trump’s strategy to overwhelm the media and critics with far-right noise. Trump ally Steve Bannon laid it out very clearly all the way back in 2020… Four years later, that’s still the strategy. And Bannon says it’s going great!”
Keep thinking about 1962 video of PPM singing Puff in NYT with Peter Yarrow’s obit. Innocent young white faces listening. A lovely fantasy from long ago. Didn’t last. And recent dragons have not been kind. Now one has breathed fire on LA and another wants to melt and steal Greenland.
Very worth a read imo. Joe Biden overestimated us (and Merrick Garland). Still, there is appeal in a President who has confidence in the people, even as he may become the last one to really have that faith.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Voters are unhappy with a government they feel does not deliver for them. Unfair voting maps are part of why Washington too frequently does not work.
🚨NEW: The U.S. Senate has passed the Social Security Fairness Act, which will give Social Security benefits to over 3 million Americans. This was championed by outgoing Senator Sherrod Brown and will be part of his legacy!
REPOST to thank Senator Brown for his service!
Recently we interviewed Booker "Bukka" White's biographer David W. Johnson about his book The Life and Music of Booker “Bukka” White – Recalling the Blues published by @upmississippi.bsky.social
The English spoken interview is now available on Spotify
open.spotify.com/show/3mPSH3q...
Listen to a balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America in the audiobook for GUNLORE: FIREARMS, FOLKWAYS, AND COMMUNITIES, edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason! #ReadUP #Audiobooks tinyurl.com/yejjbwm8
REP. JEFFRIES: “The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious. It's laughable. Extreme Maga Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown.”
House Democrats will never bend the knee to far right extremists who want to shut down the government.
I had no other expectations!
I do not have any coping mechanisms for the next four years. I am all tapped out.
On a short visit to DC. Spending my last day at National Gallery seeking perspective after a couple days on the Hill. Recommend the Gordon Parks exhibit and adjacent 1970s documentary photography exhibit. Views of humanity and reality.
It’s not wrong to be wary of anticipatory obedience—but we don't know yet what senators like Ernst or McConnell will do, and given today's Trump/MAGA threat environment, I get what Wray did. Pls read before telling me I'm wrong and only you can predict the future. www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-rep...
Democrats, listen to @abstoddard.bsky.social.
I just watched Trump’s Meet the Press interview. A torrent of lies.
The press is going to have to figure out how to cover this. Platform of lies will hasten the collapse of this democracy.
Tech-savvy isn’t everything. Glad to see you on BlueSky, Mr. Chairman.
