Reposted by Jillean McCommonsAntonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026Preorder my upcoming book, That's My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture! It will be out in June 2027 from University of California Press. I argue that the centrality of Black men's bonds in hip-hop contributes to misogynoir. www.ucpress.edu/books/thats-.... Tell a friend!ucpress.eduThat's My Heart by Antonia Randolph - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 165
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsImmigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New book from IEHS member Kelly Lytle Hernández: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control wwnorton.com/books/978132... 16417
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A long hike (rain is a bonus) Fall foods Fragrant candles House music Kitchen dancing Something funny Someone trustworthy Rest & Meditation 000
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s Fall Break. Nice! What we listening to? This Jilly from Philly remix Word?? Bet. youtu.be/-NLZDIaB6ag?...youtu.beHe Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat) (Illegal Mix)YouTube video by Jill Scott - Topic 110
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...espn.comKentucky State player released on bond from ICE custodyKentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody. 61318519
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free. 729261220
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Looking forward to being in Asheville on October 22 for Pisgah Legal Services' annual Justice Forum. I'll be speaking about the deepening crisis of housing insecurity and working homelessness, both in Western North Carolina and across the country. Register here: www.pisgahlegal.org/2026-justice... 13113
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 3021721055
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsDr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 As editor of Civil War History, I’m thrilled that Katie has won the award for Best Article! A wonderful recognition of her scholarship. Check out her interview to learn more about her research !https://kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/kathryn-lofton-awarded-the-2026-john-t-hubbell-prize/.kentstatebooks.wordpress.comKathryn Lofton awarded the 2026 John T. Hubbell PrizeKathryn Lofton is the winner of the 2026 John T. Hubbell Prize, awarded by Kent State University Press for the best article published in the journal Civil War History in the past year. Her article,… 0162
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026On 11/9, join our class w/ Gary Tyler about his book “Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, & Hope in Angola Prison.” His memoir of a wrongful conviction & time on death row in Angola prison shows how incarcerated people care for each other & fight for justice. Learn more:zinnedproject.orgSurviving Angola PrisonRethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with Gary Tyler about his book Stitching Freedom: A True Story Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison. This class is part of… 0105
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsDissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The problem in Brazil is not simply Lula’s record; across Latin America, the far right is feeding on a weakening belief in the ability of existing institutions to deliver what people want. dissentmagazine.org/online_articles… 023
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In "Materializing Imaginaries in Senegal," Fatoumata Seck explores the implications of 1968 global upheavals for cultural projects in Senegal and beyond, situating African literature, cinema, and theory as part of a global creative uprising. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/It4qdOr 074
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsAlbumism @albumism.com · 05/10/2026Mint Condition released ‘From the Mint Factory’ 33 years ago on October 5, 1993 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/MCmntfctry 1142
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Roasted squash, broccoli, mushrooms, shallots, and garlic on quinoa. Plus seaweed snacks. No plate is complete without seaweed snacks! 020
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgTierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It PredictableRepublican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care. 530399
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsDr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We should all know Joane Florvil’s name. #sayhername too. Let’s remember antiblackness is not a US problem. Sadly, it’s a pandemic. #endglobalantiblackness 032
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsAlbumism @albumism.com · 02/10/2026Chaka Khan released ‘I Feel For You’ 42 years ago on October 1, 1984 album.ink/ChakaKhanFeelalbum.inkRediscover Chaka Khan’s ‘I Feel For You’ (1984) | TributeKhan’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. 0283
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy 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... 3146
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This 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. 03210
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Addicted to Physical 100. Mexico was lit! Now on to Italy. 011
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsZinn 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...zinnedproject.orgSept. 29, 1841: Frederick Douglass Protests Segregated TravelIn 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… 23824
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still! 535984
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Blessed 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. 021
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s been hard for me to do anything quickly lately and I think this is a skill I will continue to cultivate. 020
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsJeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don’t miss this conversation on Black Power internationalism next Thursday October 1 online at 6:30 EST at the Schomburg center. 032
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Now this I like! 10511135
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsBeacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In 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!publishersweekly.comHow Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas by Liza BlackIn this damning exposé, historian Black (Picturing Indians) exhumes a sinister pattern of missing and murdered Indigenous women ... 031
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’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 001
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsHATUNA MAKANA @dayoftheweek.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. People are financing groceries. PEOPLE ARE FINANCING GROCERIES!!! 722995
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New 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.”us.macmillan.comMaking a KillingA sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the lo... 120
Reposted by Jillean McCommons✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026X running on algoracism 073
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare youwkyt.comUK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence hallsThe University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings. 391126392
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’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. 140
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsAlbumism @albumism.com · 18/09/2026Today—and EVERY day—is a great day to revisit this classic album | Explore + hear more here: album.ink/SoulIISoulCCv1 12510
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsLynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW 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/... 212982
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsH-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New job: Assistant Professor of Early American History to 1800 Missouri State University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70397 011
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Same. Turning 48 soon. The other day I said I didn’t want to be “ripping and running” around town. That’s when I realized I was probably about 60. 110
Reposted by Jillean McCommonsAlbumism @albumism.com · 11/09/2026Happy Birthday Big Daddy Kane! album.ink/BDKhbd 1203
