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Jillean McCommons

@jilleanmc.bsky.social
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Assistant professor. Writing about Black history in Appalachia.

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Albumism @albumism.com · 16h
Chaka Khan released ‘I Feel For You’ 42 years ago on October 1, 1984 album.ink/ChakaKhanFeel
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Rediscover Chaka Khan’s ‘I Feel For You’ (1984) | Tribute
Khan’s fifth solo studio affair was the product of a state American culture was in at the time, commercially super-charged, devastatingly of-the-moment.
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 23h
Starting now, on Black Power Internationalism! www.youtube.com/live/dfTc2LA...
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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Black Power Internationalism
YouTube video by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
High waters are high fashion. 😂 Fight me
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Words from class: bell hooks Paulo Freire Pan-Africanism Lumumba Feb. 21, 1965 “Preto/a” Nkrumah Prayer Hajj Paternalism
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy LGBTQ History Month! 🌈 Explore resources to uplift queer and trans voices in your classroom and curricula throughout October and all year, starting with our LGBTQ+ #tdih series: 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/?t...
People posing on a city sidewalk in front of a storefront in protest stance
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Classroom with a view.
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Addicted to Physical 100. Mexico was lit! Now on to Italy.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#tdih 1841, Frederick Douglass and his friend J. Buffum entered a train car reserved for white passengers in Lynn, Mass. Conductor ordered them to leave, they refused. Douglass’ and Buffum’s actions led to similar incidents on Eastern Railroad. 🧵⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...
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Sept. 29, 1841: Frederick Douglass Protests Segregated Travel
In protest of Jim Crow discrimination on public transportation, Frederick Douglass and his friend, white politician James N. Buffum, boarded a Eastern Railroad Company train, in a first class car and…
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blessed are those who love you just because you exist and not for what you can do for them. No earning required. Radical in these transactional times.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s been hard for me to do anything quickly lately and I think this is a skill I will continue to cultivate.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/09/2026
What are you reading this weekend?
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t miss this conversation on Black Power internationalism next Thursday October 1 online at 6:30 EST at the Schomburg center.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#tdih 1968 The Young Lords were established in Chicago to fight gentrification, police brutality, racism, & more. Watch doc “Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed . . . ” ⬇️ Read “The Young Lords: A Radical History” by Johanna Fernández 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/yo...
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Sept. 23, 1968: Young Lords Founded
The Young Lords were established in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, led by a street activist named Cha Cha Jiménez, who organized the group to fight local gentrification, police brutality, and racism.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All of them. No skips.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now this I like!
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In HOW SETTLERS GET AWAY WITH MURDER, Liza Black analyzes murder cases of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people spanning from 1908 to 2017, weighing official state reports alongside oral history and community memory. Coming soon September 29!
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How Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas by Liza Black
In this damning exposé, historian Black (Picturing Indians) exhumes a sinister pattern of missing and murdered Indigenous women ...
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m sorry to miss ASALH, especially since it’s right here in VA. The program looks 🔥 🔥 🔥 Plus the ABWH luncheon with Nell Irvin Painter. 🤩 Wow! #blackhistory
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HATUNA MAKANA @dayoftheweek.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. PEOPLE ARE FINANCING GROCERIES!!!
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It was kinda cold today. Fall is here! I like it. Bring it on. Enough with the humidity. I got my steps in, too. A nice long walk around campus.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New book by Robin D.G. Kelley! Out Jan. 19. “A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement in pursuit of racial justice and freedom for all.”
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Making a Killing
A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the lo...
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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
X running on algoracism
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
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UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls
The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve gotten my body so used to walking 2-3 miles each day that if I don’t do it I feel off. This time last year, I had very low stamina and could only do a mile or so. Healing is great! I want to build to 3-4 miles a day and beyond.
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Albumism @albumism.com · 18/09/2026
Today—and EVERY day—is a great day to revisit this classic album | Explore + hear more here: album.ink/SoulIISoulCCv1
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 18/09/2026
What are you reading this weekend?
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meet our 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award Finalist Ashley Farmer at our award event on October 8th and hear more about her book, Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Register at our website. @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I used to watch this over and over when I was a kid. Jumpin’ Jack Flash starring Whoopi Goldberg. Her style in this was so dope. Every outfit was impeccable. I had a pair of yellow Reebok, too.
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW REPORT: Haitian-Americans' detention in four Ohio jails SOARED since TPS ended. Haitian women now make up 39% of the female ICE population at these jails, up from 2%. Read our new report. ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/9/...
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New job: Assistant Professor of Early American History to 1800 Missouri State University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70397
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re hiring in Latin American history! I’m not on the search committee, but I’m more than happy to answer any questions you might have about the job, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. Please share widely. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70384/f...
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Florida State University - Assistant Professor, 9 Month Salaried - Latin American History | H-Net
Doctoral degree from an accredited institution or the highest degree appropriate in the field of specialization required.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are there scholars and thinkers outside the U.S. who are writing interesting things about how the world is and will be managing U.S. decline? I am really interested in reading these. Please share with me.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy birthday to me 🎉💪🏾🌈🥰
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.
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Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All I see is trouble 👀
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026
#OtD 14 Sep 1960 a US-backed coup took place in Congo against the country's first democratically elected PM, socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba. He was tortured, shot and had his body dissolved in acid. Learn more about colonialism in Congo: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lor...
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Albumism @albumism.com · 11/09/2026
Happy Birthday Big Daddy Kane! album.ink/BDKhbd
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
History is necessary to understand how car capitalism creates inequality.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/09/2026
#OtD 11 Sep 1934 25,000 workers walked out in a one-day general strike in Hazelton, Pennsylvania in support of a national strike of textile workers. This excellent book tells the story of the dispute, among others: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Do not spend your one life seeking the approval of people who have already decided the answer about how ‘intelligent’ you can be and who need that answer to be true in order to protect their own identity." Kojo Koram
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Rodney's magisterial opus is recognized globally as a landmark in African studies, not to mention the history of colonialism and imperialism. Beautifully written and expertly argued...It belongs on every bookshelf." --Gerald Horne Our new edition is available for pre-order now!
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney

Foreword by Angela Davis
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anyone from the MN delegation going to Cuba to get him back? @smith.senate.gov ? @mccollum.house.gov
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Announcing the 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award Finalists! Afterlives of the Plantation Jarvis C. McInnis @columbiaup.bsky.social American Grammar Jarvis R. Givens @harperbooks.bsky.social Queen Mother Ashley D. Farmer @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Aren’t y’all tired of dog poop everywhere? I am. Sh!t has literally gotten out of hand. Go for a walk and it’s just wafting. I’m not liking this for us.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Housecleaning by Nikki Giovanni
TEXT: Housecleaning
i always liked house cleaning
even as a child
i dug straightening
the cabinets
posting new paper on
the shelves
washing the refrigerator
inside out
and unfortunately this habit
has carried over and i find
i must remove you
from my life
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is a big 10
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