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Danielle L McGuire

@drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social
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Historian of racial & sexual violence; author, "At the Dark End of the Street" (Knopf). Currently writing a book about the 1967 police murder of 3 Black teens at the Algiers Motel in Detroit. www.daniellemcguire.com; Sheedylit.com & Salky Literary Mgmt.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
To counter the attack on mail-in voting, blue states should make election day a state holiday, and make voting obligatory.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can someone please educate me on why on earth the US should allow Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium for “nuclear reactors”? Or is this some kind of repayment for the $2B they gave Kushner? What in the 9/11 is going on?? B
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Clara Ester, a civil rights activist who was one of the last remaining witnesses to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, has died
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Clara Ester, activist who rushed to Martin Luther King Jr. after he was shot, dies at 78
Clara Ester, an activist and minister who rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s side when he was shot, has died at 78.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Little Rock, Ark. 1957.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The blue dot is my street.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Shoutout to the entire team working the #BonnevilleFire in SLC. I live 1 mile away in fed heights & watched efforts all day. Huge planes dropped retardant all afternoon. Ground crews fought hot spots & protected infrastructure. Helicopters & firemen are holding the line tonight. Just amazing work. 🙏🏻
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It’s Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Island & issued General Order No. 3. It announced that “all slaves are free.” This story of this one event was commemorated through the diaspora of Black Americans for more than 150 years before becoming a national holiday.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Magical.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is a fantastically written article. Its sentences are a delight. So fun to read a great piece about a legend. Jalen Brunson has placed New York back on top of the basketball world, where it belongs. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...
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Jalen Brunson, NBA champion and finals MVP, is officially the greatest Knick ever (Gift Article)
Jalen Brunson has placed New York back on top of the basketball world, where it belongs.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2026
wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.
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The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Young MC is all over my feed because he dropped out of the Trumpapalooza festival, so I'm obligated to post this banger:
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Buffalo MC - "Stop and Bust a Move"
YouTube video by Bill McClintock
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/05/2026
ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)
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The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"72% of the white population is put into one district. 75% of the Black population is carved into two,” Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said. “We are being asked to believe that it’s just the luck of the draw, just happenstance.” Within hours of a new congressional map passing, the NAACP filed suit.
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NAACP Tennessee files lawsuit challenging redrawn US House district map • Tennessee Lookout
The NAACP’s Tennessee chapter filed a lawsuit Thursday afternoon challenging the legality of the state’s brand new congressional map, redrawn to eliminate a majority-Black voting district. NAACP Tenne...
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 58 years ago, of its majority-Black congressional district takes its place in a rancid arc of American history that seems to be bending backwards. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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The Great Whitening Comes Without Irony or Shame
America’s Original Sin Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hey folks: Tomorrow on my live podcast "History Matters:" Redistricting and the (Re)Rise of Jim Crow I don't think this needs any explanation. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs5-...
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Redistricting and the (Re)Rise of Jim Crow
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
MEMPHIS SENATOR @raumeshakbari : “This is an act of hate. You cannot call it anything but racism. You cannot sugarcoat this.” Tennessee Republicans are diluting Black representation with white power, stripping their seat in Congress. #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Congrats!!!! xoxo
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For my generation, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wasn't just a law but a statement that we were never again going backwards on race. I saw Black political power thrive in the '80s, and never thought I'd live to see the VRA get crushed What do we do now? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/supr...
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SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dream | Will Bunch
Boomers growing up in am era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong?
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
86 is also used in the restaurant industry when an item (like lettuce) is out and needs to be replaced.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 14/04/2026
Explore where a history degree can take you. The AHA's Career Contacts program connects students with historians working beyond the professoriate through informational interviews. Build connections and discover new paths. Sign up for an interview today!
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AHA Career Contacts - AHA
Careers for Historians Interested in learning more about careers for historians? Sign up for the AHA's Career Contacts program, which connects anyone with a graduate or undergraduate degree in history...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hey folks: The @historians.org has posted a website containing teaching modules about the world history of authoritarianism. www.historians.org/news-publica...
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Authoritarianism 101 - AHA
Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...
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Share Your Story @anitanelam.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Check out this article from The Detroit News: A long overdue honor. Detroit street sign honors Viola Liuzzo, civil rights activist killed during Selma march www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Detroit street sign honors Viola Liuzzo, civil rights activist killed during Selma march
The corner of Mansfield and Pembroke on Detroit's west side memorializes Liuzzo's legacy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
what in the National GeographiKKK is this?
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Serious question: Was he trying to look like her or was she trying to look like him?
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What is the DOJ's budget? Surely they've overspent given all the lawsuits they've filed, defended, and LOST--not to mention all the money they're paying back to J6 defendants and conspirators. What have taxpayers paid for this hot mess?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters
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Ku Klux Klan items are found as Mississippi Department of Public Safety packs to move - Mississippi Today
In a closet at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, officials found a handbook for the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, plus Klan charters, a Klan robe, KKK recruitment materials, propaganda...
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Needed this today. Thank you, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social! Reminded me how much the past matters; how change happens slowly and collectively and how “hope and memory” go hand in hand. Feels like a historians manifesto. Helpful reminders as I write hard, necessary history.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Exactly right. The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 22/02/2026
Researchers for the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board aim to bring truth to light for racially motivated civil rights cold cases and to deliver a measure of justice and closure to families who lost loved ones in racially motivated killings that remain unsolved. sdvoice.info/researchers-...
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Researchers Aim to Bring Truth to Light for Racially Motivated Civil Rights Cold Cases
The goal of the board is to bring justice and closure to families who lost loved ones in racially-motivated killings that have gone unsolved.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2026
A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum in New York City had long been a mystery. It was recently linked to the Underground Railroad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Emphasis on the “ex” makes it more curious.
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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Front page NYT book review today!
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 14/02/2026
An interview w/Thomas Foster (au of Rethinking Rufus) on enslavers' sexual predation on the people they held in bondage. truthout.org/articles/bla... "This reality speaks to just how bad slavery was, how pervasively sexually violent it was toward both enslaved Black women [& girls] & men [& boys]."
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Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.
Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday Through Books 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday Through Books
Thanks to all of you who attended today’s live chat.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 11/02/2026
‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
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‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam
At a time when Black military history is being rewritten under Trump officials, new book The War Within a War provides a vital reminder
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Also, happy Superb Owl Day to all who celebrate.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was a visual and musical manifestation of what he said at the Grammys. If that single sentence asserting the humanity of immigrants was a Broadway musical—this would be it.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It was a powerful demonstration of all the things that make us human and connect us across cultures: family, friends, traditions, community, music, dance, joy and togetherness. We are all the same. One love.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Incredible set. I love how Bad Bunny captured moments & lives of ordinary people—from the nail salon, to the jewelry store, to the family watching tv, to the men playing a game, to the cutting of a wedding cake. Even the costumes reflected what sly and the family stone called “everyday people”.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A singing movement is a winning movement. Voices take up space, songs create energy, and voices together embody solidarity. It is a powerful nonviolent tool that was deployed effectively by the footsoldiers in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Danielle L McGuire @drdaniellemcguire.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Now *that's* a headline.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Tonight at 11 ET! THE Daily Show! ♥️🙏🏻
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