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David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still plenty of time to apply for a position as an Assistant Prof. in US Legal History at UF. Applications due October 16. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor US Legal History– Tenure Accruing, Department of History

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Never celebrated my birthday much, but since forces all around are working in overdrive to kill us all, I have developed a new appreciation for simply living. I am a grateful 36 😜. Just did a 2 min. photoshoot at my desk while grading. 🥴 I need a haircut, some gin, and a lotta cash!

Procrastinating at my desk this morning.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I could have sworn it was college students protesting racists that were the major threats to free speech and open inquiry

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New book: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Celeste-Marie Bernier presents the first standalone biography of Anna Murray Douglass, wife and co-revolutionary of Frederick Douglass, honoring her history-making role as a campaigner, liberator, and freedom-fighter. Read a sample for free now: buff.ly/4etAj6v

Cover of Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary by Celeste-Marie Bernier. The cover is a photograph of Anna Murray Douglass as a duotone in pink and red. There are three squares made of transparent gold triangle patterns overlayed. The title is written large in a bold white script across the cover. The subtitle is smaller below and aligned left. The authors name appears in the top left corner of the cover in white.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 09/09/2026

On this day in 1957, white church members and a minister preaching against the sinfulness of racial integration staged a protest outside of desegregating Nashville schools. The next day, a local elementary school was bombed.

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Sep. 9, 1957 | White Residents Use Religion to Justify Segregation; Elementary School Bombed

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/08/2026

The 13th Amendment banned slavery, but it included a carveout sanctioning it as a punishment for people convicted of crimes. Many state constitutions include the same loophole; seven states don’t pay anything for most prison jobs.

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Judge Orders Colorado to Stop Throwing Prisoners in Solitary for Refusing to Work - Bolts

Years after voters amended the state’s constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards “compel and coerce” work.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Mitch will resign on August 4th. Watch. 😒🤦🏾‍♂️

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 18/07/2026

"Especially at a time when propaganda is rampant under the Trump 2.0 regime, it feels particularly crucial to ensure that those invested in Disability Justice are aware of what we owe to Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party."🫂 www.equitableforall.com/articles/cel...

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Celebrating How Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party Paved the Way for Disability Justice

This newsletter post is the author's attempt at highlighting how Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party paved the way for Disability Justice, as she continues to reckon with the grave costs of Access ...

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yikes, Rebecca!! 😒 I thought you were sharper than this. 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This Afro-Brazilian Photographer Preserves the History of Black Resistance in Bahia Lázaro Roberto and the Zumví Archive weave memory and identity. hammerandhope.org/article/afro...

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This Afro-Brazilian Photographer Preserves the History of Black Resistance in Bahia

Lázaro Roberto and the Zumví Archive weave memory and identity.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/07/2026

The advent of reading transformed society, and its decline will bring about changes of the same magnitude, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. Can America—and civilization—survive the postliterate era? theatln.tc/l2Xk9ATe 🎨: The Atlantic

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 09/07/2026

Top story: Every year, Inside Books Project sends around 40,000 free books to incarcerated men and women in correctional facilities around the state. But that vital work is threatened by a new rule in the prison system ...

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Throwing the Book at Books in Prison

Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thing is, people are gonna look at this and say it’s fringe. And it may be fringe to mention “white race” so explicitly. But it’s not fringe when evangelicals talk birth rates and use “Christian” and “civilization“ as code words for white, which is VERY mainstream.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 08/07/2026

From our magazine by Hope Corrigan: The Inside Books Project, a nonprofit operated by volunteers, sends about 40,000 free books to prisoners each year. But their vital work is endangered by a new rule banning used and hardcover books.

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Throwing the Book at Books in Prison

Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My client Prof. Willoughby-Herard heroically stood up for students and was assaulted by cops. Then UCI tried to fire her. The Committee recommended unpaid suspension, but there should be no punishment for protecting students. Please sign and share to support her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

OTD in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Here is a photo of LBJ handing a pen to Martin Luther King, Jr, at the signing ceremony. As the caption says, this was "the strongest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction Days."

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HANDSHAKE FOR KING--President Johnson shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King after handing him a pen during the signing of the bill, the strongest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction Days.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 28/06/2026

As of early June, more than 360 incarcerated people with mental illness in Colorado are waiting for a state hospital bed. On average, they spend more than 60 days in jail, and some wait more than a year. All are presumed innocent.

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The Jail That Replaced Boulder’s Mental Health System - Bolts

Colorado’s dysfunctional system for restoring competency for defendants with serious mental illness leaves people cycling in and out of jail, where harsh conditions can further erode their mental health.

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Rich Condon @richcondon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

On June 27, 2015, 10 days after a white supremacist murdered 9 Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled a flagpole in front of the South Carolina State House and removed a Confederate flag that had hung on the grounds since 1961. 🧵 1/4

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A fantastic and smart read. Helps explain much about our current state of affairs in this country!

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 22/06/2026

Fantastic to see Brent Leggs take over as President & CEO at the National Trust. Amid a really difficult time for funding the preservation and interpretation of the full American story, I'm super excited to see where he takes things. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/a...

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The National Trust Names New President

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The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Great new episode to start your week, Jarvis Givens talking about the history of Af Am educators, Black Studies and historical writing, and pedagogy and education work as community work. Here and at most streams: go.umd.edu/JarvisGivens

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Jarvis Givens - Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · June 22 · 49m

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 19/06/2026

“Human beings, regardless of their race, want to live their lives without restriction. Juneteenth is about a spirit of renewal that celebrates freedom and opportunity.” To understand Juneteenth, one must visit Galveston, its birthplace:

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A Visit to Galveston, the Birthplace of Juneteenth

Texas was the last state to receive the news that slavery had ended.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Minimizing the individual histories from a site that stands a block from Independence Hall is not a neutral curatorial decision. It is a political one. #Juneteenth #CivilWarMemory #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Juneteenth and the Story They Won't Tell

A federal court just handed the Trump administration the right to bury Ona Judge in Washington's shadow.

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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Today is Juneteenth and we are also potentially days away from a public charge reg that aims to stop non-white immigrants from existing in the U.S. So I recommend reading my colleague Kat Lundie's new piece on how slavery and public charge are historically intertwined www.nilc.org/articles/the...

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The Legacy of Slavery Continues in Modern Immigration Law

To truly honor Juneteenth, we must acknowledge how the legacy of slavery continues in modern immigration laws, including public charge policies.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Enslaved South Carolinians Who Rowed to Freedom | Virginia McGee Richards Along the Lowcountry’s Inner Passage, they steered south by starlight as slave catchers pursued them toward Spanish Florida. This #Juneteenth, their names should not be forgotten thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-enslaved...

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The Enslaved South Carolinians Who Rowed to Freedom

Along the Lowcountry’s Inner Passage, they steered south by starlight as slave catchers pursued them toward Spanish Florida. This Juneteenth, their names should not be forgotten.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Fascinating read as I sit in Cincinnati at this very moment.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Celebrating #Juneteenth. Special discount now! @nycplan.org @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

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Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.

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Supreme Court “packing” isn’t radical. It has deep roots in American legal tradition.

In the 19th century, Americans expected Supreme Court justices to represent and even travel around circuits and engage with citizens. Staying in D.C. is a more recent development.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm probably too quick to draw analogies to the Reconstruction era and its aftermath (professional hazard!). But these reports about Trump creating a reparations fund for J6 insurrectionists has me thinking the Reconstruction-era Klan and its sympathizers

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

now available for pre-order: Sarah Marsh, Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race: A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688–1818 global.oup.com/academic/pro... : English slaveholders, like the Stuart kings, asserted absolute power over their human subjects

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026

Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A segregated classroom in Mississippi, 1939. On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring racially segregated public education “inherently unequal” www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 15/05/2026

Looking for classroom resources for courses in African American history? Check out these videos from The Future of the African American Past, a landmark 2016 conference co-hosted by the AHA & the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture that brought together 60+ scholars. 🗃️

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The Future of the African American Past – AHA

The AHA and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture co-hosted The Future of the African American Past, a landmark conference to celebrate the opening of the NMAAHC.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

REMINDER: (Re)Defining the American Working Class. This evening at 7pm EST. Scan the QR below to register!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is fascism

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.

The conservative majority has learned to use anti-discrimination language as the vehicle for preserving discrimination. Justice Kavanaugh’s suggestion that remedies for racism must have an “end point” inverts the logic of the Reconstruction Amendments. They were written to empower Congress to act against racial domination, not to set an expiration date on equality. This will be the Roberts Court’s legacy: using the Constitution not to expand freedom, but to protect established hierarchies. The Court has simply found a new minority to protect—not racial or religious minorities, but a political party whose power endures through structural advantage, even when it commands fewer votes.

Where the Court has shown the greatest deference is to power itself, culminating in the decision granting Donald Trump sweeping legal immunity for “official acts”—a ruling that defies global democratic norms, where dozens of presidents and prime ministers have been prosecuted and convicted of crimes in recent years. The Court is thus working on two fronts: shielding the leader of the anti-democratic movement from accountability while simultaneously dismantling the electoral rules that allow the majority to vote his party out.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Most know that I don’t enjoy getting awards, being honored, or celebrated in any capacity. But I was so pleased to have received the Outstanding Faculty Award from our university’s Black Student Association yesterday! Made my year for sure. Shirt looks wrinkled but my students looked good, though!

Photo of Award Recipients listed in event program.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

They want him. Lawd’a mercy! 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Serendipity! First time seeing my Cornell undergraduate advisor since 2004. 🥴 We were both stuck in a long line to collect our OAH badges this morning. Right place, right time, eh?! To memorialize this moment, here’s a photo with the esteemed and eminent historian of early America, Mary Beth Norton!

Photo of Mary Beth Norton and Jermaine Thibodeaux at OAH-Philadelphia, 2026.

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