The past is never dead. It’s still in the goddamn building apparently.

With the @legaldefensefund.bsky.social and ACLU of #Alabama, the SPLC is helping University of Alabama students file suit to challenge the suspension of two campus magazines and restore the magazines’ funding and operations.

Read our press release 🔗:
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Back on some social media, things are bad but blue skies, green leaves, and birds chirping are good

New IJ lawsuit filed today challenging ICE raids of construction sites, wherein ICE detains American citizens in AL, rejects their proof of citizenship, and holds them without PC.

Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" Explore the speech "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" delivered by Frederick Douglass in 1852, including full text and historical context.

Every Fourth of July, I read Frederick Douglass's important speech from that day in 1852 and ask my friends to join me. This year it hits even harder. "Your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery ... mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy." www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

The evil that men do lives after them

Second graders trying to save African Meeting House in Boston after federal funding cuts The African Meeting House located in Boston's Beacon Hill area is facing some tough budget cuts, but a second grade class is trying to help save it.

The African Meeting House (built in 1806) located in Boston's Beacon Hill area is facing some tough budget cuts, but a second grade class is trying to help save it. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Historical marker destroyed in Florence honoring African American representative Authorities are investigating after a historical marker in Florence was damaged for the third time in 17 years.ABC 15 spoke with community members in the savann

Historical marker destroyed in Florence, SC, honoring Reconstruction-era Black lawmaker, Alfred Rush, who represented Darlington County and was assassinated in 1876. This marks the third destruction of this marker. wpde.com/news/local/a... #TeachReconstruction

Let’s keep the context up front. In early April masses of NEH grants were terminated as “an urgent priority.” Those included grants that fund 50 state humanities councils, which do community-based work all across the country. And rigorously peer-reviewed grants to individual scholars & orgs.

These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and books on the Holocaust were among the works removed in response to an order from the office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

It's unfortunate to see several UNC Press titles among the many books removed from the Naval Academy library.

Let's support these authors by:
💚Requesting these books from your local library
💚Following the authors on social media & amplify their voices
💚Purchasing your own copy if possible

This, plus the observation I and others have had, that this was NOT like how we were treated with BLM in 2020. It’s a “wow gee I wonder why 😒” at the cops, but I hope we can take full advantage of the comparative lack of repression and run with this energy as far as we can.

Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.

ICE Makes Another Student Disappear—and No One Knows Why Federal immigration officials have abducted another international student.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has detained another international student—this time from the University of Alabama and without providing any justification.

All are assaults on free speech and are blatant violations of immigration law.

After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming The finished museum is set to open in July.

After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming to DC www.washingtonian.com/2025/03/04/a... #blackhistorymonth #tellemwhatwedid

Program to focus on Civil War history of Florida’s colored troops - The Port St. Joe Star The American Civil War has been called the War Between the States, the War...

Port St. Joe will feature Defenders of Democracy: History and Heroism of U.S. Colored Troops in Civil War Florida. gulfcounty.news/2025/02/03/p... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth

Congratulations ✨💕

sorry for lack of poasting depression is really getting me down and whaleship careers, the traditional solution for seasonal affective disorder, are really scarce these days

I LOVE Christmas in Connecticut ❤️

If people stopped following me on here maybe I’d post more.

Hear me out, aquavit with fresh dill and lemon or a nice ale ✨

Happy Army-Navy Day with Alonzo and William Cushing! Brothers who went to both West Point and Annapolis right before the Civil War

This historic Black cemetery holds thousands of stories. Meet the N.J. woman fighting to preserve them. Dolly Marshall went to a cemetery in search of her great-great-grandfather's grave and ended up on a mission to preserve one of New Jersey's most historic sites.

The legacies of thousands of freedom seekers, enslaved people and Black veterans are preserved among the headstones and markers at a 125-year-old Black cemetery in Lawnside, NJ. Meet Dolly Marshall, the N.J. woman fighting to preserve them. www.nj.com/news/2024/11...

update: Penn just--finally--admitted they have Delisha Africa's remains

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Vicksburg National Military Park to Host Remembrance of the 150th Anniversary of the Vicksburg Massacre of 1874 The Vicksburg National Military Park will host events in remembrance of the 150th Anniversary of the Vicksburg Massacre.

Vicksburg National Military Park to Host Remembrance of the 150th Anniversary of the Vicksburg Massacre of 1874 vicksburgnews.com/vicksburg-na... #TeachReconstruction Yes, we are still in the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction.

Listen. Sometimes historians make mistakes, like not fully filling out a citation that you swear you’ll remember on a first draft or cutting your bangs too short. I will work on the first one and sadly shall live with the consequences of the second.

These have made their way into my grad school groupchat, thank you for the compilation