NYC schools chief pledges expansion of Black Studies program after Manhattan mom’s racist remark After a Manhattan parent’s racist comment sparked widespread outrage, Chancellor Kamar Samuels promised anti-racism training for families and greater access to Black Studies curriculum.

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Zebulon Miletsky explained the dangers and limitations of social media and artificial intelligence for Black history. Dr. Nishani Frazier analyzed the uses of artificial intelligence and digital humanities for empowering Black research.

Share experiences and insights that help people recognize threats as they change. Question the idea of “pacification” as you see the impact on individuals and families.

Person speaking to ICE protest.

Protest of ICE in Boston.

Protesters of ICE in Boston.

Poster for rally.

Happening now! Thousands of people at the JFK Federal Building in Boston to say ICE out of Massachusetts! ICE out of everywhere! #AbolishICE To learn more about collective actions you can take: www.lucemass.org/take-action

Nov. 5, 1862 | U.S. Government Sentences Over 300 Dakota Men to Death Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1862, the U.S. government sentenced 303 members of the Dakota people to death for participating in the U.S.-Dakota War.

Zohran Mamdani: New York’s Mayor-elect celebrates visit to Puerto Rico The social democrat politician was accompanied by Puerto Rican congresswoman Nydia Velázquez as he arrived at the SOMOS conference

Zohran Mamdani: New York’s Mayor-elect celebrates visit to Puerto Rico
The social democrat politician was accompanied by Puerto Rican congresswoman Nydia Velázquez as he arrived at the SOMOS conference
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NO KINGS NYC - Labor March · Mobilize 📍 Where: Duarte Square, 6th Ave, and Canal 📅 When: October 18, 2025, at 11 AM NOTE: this will be a march, not a rally! This is a labor feeder march that will start from a different location in Southw...

I'm attending NYC Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS NYC - Labor March” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

The historical cognate for what is happening in the United States right now is the period known as the Redemption. And the restoration of Confederate iconography, just like when they were originally installed, is to signal to the nation the return of white power.

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

Pope’s Family History Offers a Glimpse Into the American Creole Journey

Pope’s Family History Offers a Glimpse Into the American Creole Journey www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

On Sat. May 17, I’ll be appearing with @profmiletsky.bsky.social at the Gold Coast book fair on Long Island to talk about our books, '60s political movements, and the current climate of activism – see you there.

Book Review: Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle by Zebulon Vance Miletsky Author :Zebulon Vance Miletsky Title: Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle Publication Info: The University of North Carolina Press (2022) Summary/Review: The busi…

Book Review: Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle by Zebulon Vance Miletsky othemts.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/b...

I was so thrilled to be invited back to speak at #BostonLatinSchool today and to be the Stan Salett ‘55 Speaker 2025, working with the AP African American Studies classes on today, March 10th 2025. Thank you for including my book 🙌🏽 #BlackHistory

#ScholarSunday Thread 214 Published on March 2, 2025

Everything is janky as hell in March 2025, but one thing you can depend on: #ScholarSunday threads! Here’s my 214th of great public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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Celebrating Black History at Rivers: A Focus on Black Excellence and Community

2/27/2025 To close out our observation of Black History Month, Rivers hosted Speaker Dr. Zebulon Miletsky, an associate professor in Africana Studies & History at Stony Brook University, to present at all-school…

Please support. Tickets still available! allevents.in/everett/19th...

Please share this with your networks. It will take place in the Boston area (Everett, MA). MLK received part of his graduate education in Boston. The unofficial title of my meditation is “Eyes Off The Prize” and how we may do better in 2025 and beyond! Tickets available. allevents.in/everett/19th...

2024 was filled with many blessings… one of the things I’m most proud about is having been invited to speak at the Boston Latin school. I didn’t attend Latin… in fact I had never seen the inside of it. But, anyone from Boston will know why this was so important. Thank you BLS for the invite.

US Supreme Court passes on Boston exam school challenge For the second time this year, the US Supreme Court opted against weighing in on policies that use geographic proxies for race to allow more Black and Latino students to enroll in competitive high sch...

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This cover is everything. Can’t wait to get this one.

I am so excited to share the cover for King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South coming out March 25! The book charts his long challenge to Northern segregation from grad school onward to the end of his life alongside his political partner Coretta Scott King.

Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Africana Studies department @SBUafricana invite applications for an Assistant Professor Position in Human Rights, Critical Carceral Studies & Prison Education. Deadline is January 15th.
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How school segregation survived Boston’s busing Boston schools are more segregated now than than they were 30 years ago. Did integration fail, or did the people?

“It became an all too effective strategy to talk about race without talking about race,” says Zebulon Miletsky, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University and author of 'Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle.'" @wbur.org
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Historian tracks the ‘Long Black Freedom’ struggle in Boston in new book | Dorchester Reporter For many in Boston, the story of “busing” begins in September 1974 with the explosive clash over mandatory desegregation of the city’s public schools. In the barrage of electrifying news reports, with...

In his book “Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle,” Zebulon Miletsky highlights what the violence and division eclipsed.—via Dorchester Reporter
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Education and Liberation: A CBFS Conversation Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine with K...

Zebulon Miletsky, author of BEFORE BUSING: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, joined Conversations in Black Freedom Studies from AAIHS:
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Why I wrote ‘Before Busing’ | Dorchester Reporter The year 2024 marks fifty years since a federal court order was issued by US Judge W. Arthur Garrity mandating school desegregation in Boston which resulted in busing.

An important read from Zebulon Miletsky in the Dorchester Reporter (my community newspaper! ❤️). One narrative about busing in Boston has been dominant for the past 50 years, but it ignores a much longer civil rights struggle in the city (also, pick up his book!). www.dotnews.com/2024/why-i-w...

The yellow school bus is in trouble The disappearance of bus service is hurting kids around the country.

I was quoted in this @vox.com piece “The yellow school bus is in trouble” www.vox.com/life/373743/...

It Was Never About Busing (Published 2019) Court-ordered desegregation worked. But white racism made it hard to accept.

This is an older article by @nhannahjones.bsky.social but it is still 100% on the money. “Busing didn’t fail. We did.” www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/o...

RealTalk: History as a weapon for Black Liberation YouTube video by Black Liberation Media

RealTalk: History as a weapon for Black Liberation w/Dr. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua "Friday 11/15/2024" Dr. Zebulon Vance( @profmiletsky.bsky.social )Miletsky, Black Liberation Media www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r1B...