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Kim Gallon

@kgallon.bsky.social
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Africana Studies Prof @BrownUniversity interested in AI & Health Tech, Black Journalism, Libraries, & The Black Church...Forthcoming book...Power in the Pews (February, 2027) nyupress.org/9781479848645/power-in…

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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I answered 5 questions for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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5 Questions for Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Family history and genealogy, media juicing up controversy and fawning over science while failing to get that yes the historical analysis was conclusive. I couldn't not write about this! Shorter: just read @agordonreed.bsky.social. karinwulf.com/trove/the-fa...
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The Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy. - Karin Wulf
[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children (Gift Article)
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UVA alum Carrington Epperson: “I recommend anyone to take an African American studies course because you will never understand how much you weren’t taught about it before.”
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Kim Gallon @kgallon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Amazing framing, Sarah!!! .If you want to explore the only digital project celebrating the bicentennial of the Black Press check out BlackPress@200 at: www.blackpress200.org
A screenshot of the home page of the website: blackpressat200.org.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I learned this week that the New York Times was founded 175 years ago. There is a useful set of pieces floating around on this for journalism history buffs. But what struck me is that means the Times was founded 25 years *after* the black press which will celebrate its 200th birthday in a few months
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n
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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“What then, is the responsible course of action? For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it.”
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“To remain on advisory boards that have been stripped of meaningful advisory function is to become that shopkeeper, to lend legitimacy to a process that has been systematically delegitimized."
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Like the shopkeeper in an authoritarian society described by Vaclav Havel in his essay “The Power of the Powerless,” who participates in his own oppression through small daily acts of complicity, like placing a party slogan in his window not out of conviction but out of habit."
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations."
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The symposium is open to the public throughout the day. If you would like to also join us for the reception and keynote dialogue, please register using this link:
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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Originally we planned to hold the symposium solely focused on the issue of reparations, but these new dangers prompted us to pivot *in medias res*, without sacrificing the original focus.
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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The past is under threat from a variety of forces, including the commodification of data, the privatization of knowledge, and more recently, a concerted effort to erase or rewrite history in ways that serve the interests of those in power.
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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Now the past is facing new dangers, and the question of ownership and control over the Black historical and cultural record is more urgent than ever.
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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In our second installment we continue our efforts to gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, and archivists from the Americas and Africa to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the question: Who owns and controls the Black historical and cultural record?
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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚? A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ ̵R̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̵The Past in Danger When: May 14, 2025 Where: Yale University
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Steph Machado @stephmachado.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: Rhode Island's long waiting list for infants and toddlers with developmental delays to get Early Intervention has finally decreased after the latest funding boost helped increase salaries "In the life of a baby, every week is critical," said one provider whose wait list has finally diminished
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R.I.’s waitlist for Early Intervention services sees big drop after funding boost - The Boston Globe
For years, Rhode Island has not been in compliance with federal law requiring children with developmental delays be evaluated within 45 days.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Potential insider trading is a completely across the political spectrum thing btw, knows no bounds of party www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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These 97 Members of Congress Reported Trades in Companies Influenced by Their Committees (Published 2022)
See the stocks the lawmakers reported buying and selling and how their trades potentially conflicted with the committees they sat on.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/04/2025
“I’m not particularly interested in assisting the process of flattening myself into an array of data points, to serve the interests of tech companies by making myself even more machine-readable. I’m not convinced that the best way to understand oneself is through quantification.“
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We have more data on ourselves than ever before. But can we really track our way into happiness? | Samantha Floreani
Self-tracking is regularly promoted as a way toward self-improvement. But life is not a mathematical problem waiting to be solved
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.
times home page with arrow pointing to story about protests a few screen loads down.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Boston showed up today to send a clear message: We will not sit by while Donald Trump and his billionaire friends dismantle the protections that our families count on. Hands off Boston.
Mayor Michelle Wu stands back to camera in front of a large crowd of protesters attending the Hands Off Rally on April 5, 2025.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
More fantastic #handsoff signs in Providence 🙌🏽🪧🙌🏽
Sign reading “Hands off social security”Sign reading “Depaetmemt
Of Greed & Evil / DOGE”Sign reading “DEPORT WHITE SUPREMACY”Sign with the face of Cory Booker reading : “The power of the people is greater than the people in power”
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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We have a digital exhibit coming on the music of the conventions! In the meantime, check out, teach, and share the amazing digital exhibits on our at coloredconventions.org/exhibits!
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Exhibits - Colored Conventions Project
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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Black men, send me manuscripts. Stop playing with me. As one of very few Black men in this industry, SEND ME YOUR BOOKS. Thanks. 🫶🏽
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Ted Nesi @tednesi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
NEW: Another blow to RI's health care system Anchor Medical Associates (successor to the old Harvard Pilgrim clinics) informed their roughly 25,000 patients the practice will close on June 30 AG @peterfneronha.bsky.social calls the closure a "spectacular failure" and a wakeup call on primary care
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RI's Anchor Medical to close in June; roughly 25,000 patients need new doctors
The primary care practice cares, which cares for both adults and children, has locations in Lincoln, Warwick and Providence.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”
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How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge
If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility.
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Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Providence City Council passes ordinance preventing the fining of unhoused people camping on public property "This ordinance commits the city to the bare minimum of basic compassion over misguided cruelty," said Councilmember Miguel Sanchez. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/providence...
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Providence City Council passes ordinance preventing the fining of unhoused people camping on public property
"This ordinance commits the city to the bare minimum of basic compassion over misguided cruelty," said Councilmember Miguel Sanchez.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Every lede like this is a fundamental journalistic failure. (There is no "relentless antisemitism on campus" and you don't need to give the administration's propaganda priority). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
The Trump administration intends to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants for Brown University, expanding its campaign to hold universities accountable for what it says is relentless antisemitism on campus, according to two White House officials familiar with the plans.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The 2025-2026 Members of the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science. I look forward to thinking with and learning from this extraordinary group of scholars next year, when I will also convene a special collaborative theme seminar on Digital (In)Equality. www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/dig...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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