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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 05/09/2026

"Please unlearn the demeaning idea that history and “the archive” have nothing to offer Black Americans. Black historians and our allies have been writing and publishing history for well over a century, so there’s no need for “wake work” about history." ~NP

Screenshot of text that reads: As for unlearning, please unlearn the demeaning (to historians of all races and genders) that history and “the archive” have nothing to offer Black Americans. Black historians and our allies have been writing and publishing history for well over a century, so there’s no need for “wake work” about history. Rather than bemoaning what seems not to be there, let us read the work that already exists in print and images. And there’s no such thing as “the archive.” Historical archives are living things that grow bigger with every bit of research and all the new questions we ask. I don’t use “the archive” in the singular, preferring to speak of “archives” in the plural. Those archives, those historical resources, are infinitely richer than when I was a graduate student in the 1970s. Source: https://www.clevescene.com/arts/in-conversation-with-nell-irvin-painter-the-2026-great-lakes-african-american-writers-conference-lifetime-achievement-award-winner/

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 16/07/2026

Detroit Air Quality at 4 am. Now we’re at 508. 😵‍💫

Screenshot of Air Quality Now alert for Detroit at 4 am, showing, hazardous, 543 AQI

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 11/07/2026

"The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's history," Frederick Douglass, 1852 blackvoicenews.com/2026/07/03/c... The Ringbolt and the Chain of Our Nation’s Destiny: On The Enduring Message of Frederick Douglass's 1852 #Americaat250

Collage featuring Frederick Douglass, an American flag, a slave ship, a chain, and text from the Declaration of Independence and Douglass' 1582 speech "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" The text reads, "The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's history."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 28/06/2026

Juneteenth gathering at Sacred Heart in Bowie, MD, honors legacy of enslaved ancestors www.cathstan.org/local/junete...

Two Black children join Fran Hawkins in a libation ceremony during a Juneteenth Family Day.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 28/02/2026

New Frederick Douglass Statue Highlights St. Augustine’s Black History and Douglass's visit on April 7, 1889 jacksonvillefreepress.com/new-frederic...

Statue of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, showing him sitting on a bench outside in St. Augustine, FL, with a book in one hand and a piece of paper (likely the text of the speech he gave in 1889).

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 22/02/2026

Washington-born Alexander Clark, an important 19th-century civil rights leader, www.observer-reporter.com/news/local-n... Clark spearheaded a lawsuit that was considered a forerunner to Brown vs. Board of Education, and was the U.S. ambassador to Liberia at the end of his life.

Portrait Illustration of Alexander Clark, a Black man in a suit and tie.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 21/02/2026

👀 www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-... #edusky #highered

Screenshot of text that reads: On its 150th anniversary, the university doesn’t even have the courage of its own platitudes. Maybe its motto shouldn’t be “America’s First Research University,” he thinks, but: “We Suck Up and Punch Down.” Source: The Misuses of the University https://www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-of-the-university/

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 11/02/2026

This Baldwin quote on Vietnam: "A racist society can’t but fight a racist war — this is the bitter truth. The assumptions acted on at home are also acted on abroad, and every American Negro knows this, for he, after the American Indian, was the first ‘Vietcong’ victim. We were bombed first.”

Screenshot of a quote that reads: “Long, long before the Americans decided to liberate the Southeast Asians, they decided to liberate me: my ancestors carried these scars to the grave, and so will I. A racist society can’t but fight a racist war — this is the bitter truth. The assumptions acted on at home are also acted on abroad, and every American Negro knows this, for he, after the American Indian, was the first ‘Vietcong’ victim. We were bombed first.” Source: https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2018/10/on-my-mind-i-am-not-your-american-reviving-james-baldwins-opposition-to-u-s-empire

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 01/02/2026

Library of Congress sourcing for this quote, in case you're wondering www.loc.gov/pictures/res...

Library of Congress Colorized 19th-century print of a white man, Abraham Lincoln, standing next to a table and chair, and holding a book. Text reads: "The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to over-throw the Constitution, but to over-throw the men who pervert that Constitution."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 25/01/2026

“Deliver Us from Evil,” 1943, John Wilson's mural-like lithographic print juxtaposes scenes of the war in Europe and the Holocaust with the persecution and killing of Blacks in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...

Screenshot of Black artist John Wilson’s 1943 lithographic print, "Deliver Us from Evil,” with scenes that juxtapose the Holocaust on the left with the apartheid system Black Americans faced during Jim Crow on the right.

The text accompanying the image reads: “Deliver Us from Evil,” 1943, a mural-like lithographic print, was one of many shot through with images of social angst and political turbulence. Divided into two halves, the artist juxtaposes scenes of the war in Europe and the Holocaust (at left) with the persecution and killing of Blacks in the United States (at right).Credit...

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 25/01/2026

Long before women gained the right to vote nationwide in 1920, Black women in the Pacific Northwest were already working to shape political life—organizing clubs, building party networks, and mobilizing voters. news.ucsc.edu/2026/01/a-vi...

Screenshot from a newspaper that shows pictures of 8 professionally dressed Black women who were officers of the Colored Women's Council in Portland, Oregon.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 29/12/2025

The great deskilling of students, brought to you by AI bros, ed tech enthusiasts, and higher-ed administrators who should know better. #edusky www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Screenshot of text : ‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how and why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks – which will be often, based on the AI output we now see.’

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 24/12/2025

I often think about this regarding academia and the historical professional.

Screenshot of text from the other place that reads: “Basically, any institution you are part of in your life, be it social or professional, will actively punish you for having moral clarity or epistemic honesty, but it is deeply important you maintain them regardless."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 14/12/2025

One in five students say affording life after college is one of their top stressors, according to a recent Student Voice survey. www.insidehighered.com/news/student... #collegedebt #edusky #affordability

Chart from a survey on college students’ concerns about their careers after college. To access the original article, here is the link https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2025/12/10/college-students-stress-about-cost-living?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=8374b5e6c4-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-8374b5e6c4-236904726&mc_cid=8374b5e6c4&mc_eid=7d9a9135f8

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 12/11/2025

Midtown Detroit businesses plan new holiday experience amid Noel Night hiatus www.freep.com/story/money/... Love the pic of Flo boutique owner, Felicia Patrick

An impeccably styled, older Black woman, Flo Boutique owner Felicia Patrick, stands in her glorious Midtown Detroit store, surrounded by hanging clothes and in front of an orange-painted wall filled with Black art.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 28/10/2025

Scoring the public record with cowards’ names and practices across industries—academia, journalism, law, government, business, banking/finance, & medicine—will make it harder for them to conceal their involvement or claim ignorance. 🗣️Help ensure people now and in the future know who they are.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2025

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"If [TFG] has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 23/09/2025

Another ABST: “Creating Knowledge to Save the Republic”: Howard University Press and Academic Publishing in the Era of Black Power by Magana J. Kabugi www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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This article examines the Howard University Press (HUP), the first fully functional and staffed academic publishing operation headquartered at a historically Black college or university (HBCU). In the decades before the HUP’s relaunch in 1974, after two iterations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, multiple HBCUs attempted to publish scholarly works that advanced the study of Black diasporic culture, history, and social thought while also pushing against anti-Black ideas propagated by White-controlled university presses. From 1974 to 2011, the HUP published or republished a diverse catalog of texts, ranging from historian Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) to conversations between writers Margaret Walker and Nikki Giovanni. By drawing upon oral histories of past HUP employees, archival collections, newspapers, magazines, and intellectual histories of Black Power thought and activism, the present article provides a granular understanding of the HUP’s significance in the landscape of Black-owned and Black-led publishing.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 23/09/2025

Article ABST: “Sport Becoming an Art”: Curricular Dance, Cultural Pride, and Community Engagement at HBCUs by Emma Hawk. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... If I can Interlibrary loan this article, *YOU* can Interlibrary loan this article.

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"Throughout the twentieth century, dance instructors at historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, championed an innovative and holistic pedagogy, recognizing dance’s history as a vehicle for celebration, resistance, and self-expression in African American life. Often assigned to physical education departments, these instructors imagined dance as a “sport becoming an art,” with the capacity to stimulate students’ bodies and minds in tandem. The instructors used movement to teach their students, primarily young Black women, social responsibility and a sense of cultural pride. Beyond campus, HBCU dance instructors led community-based workshops in their home cities and embarked on regional tours with extracurricular performance troupes, contributing to desegregation efforts throughout the South and elsewhere in the United States. Focusing on programs led by Charles Holston Williams of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Maryrose Reeves Allen of Howard University, and Mozel Jenkins Spriggs of Spelman College, the present article reveals how HBCUs enabled instructors, students, and audiences to think differently about the body’s capacity for communication and self-expression during periods of heightened political stakes and cultural revolution."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 22/09/2025

At least 230 Black boys and teens died while in the care of the House of Reformation between 1870 and 1939, according to a review of state records, news reports and death certificates. This tally is likely an undercount because key records are missing for many of the years analyzed.

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Known deaths at House of Reformation
At least 230 Black boys and teens died while in the care of the House of Reformation between 1870 and 1939, according to a review of state records, news reports and death certificates. This tally is likely an undercount because key records are missing for many of the years analyzed.

This chart shows that at least 230 children died while in the care of the House of Reformation between 1870 and 1939, according to a review of state records, news reports and death certificates. This tally is likely an undercount because key records are missing for many of the years analyzed.
1870-1879
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1880-1889
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1890-1899
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1900-1909
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1910-1919
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1920-1929
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1930-1939
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Source: House of Reformation Annual Reports, Prince George's County death records, archival news clippings
Katie Mettler / THE WASHINGTON POST

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 22/09/2025

Former DJS secretary Vincent Schiraldi, whose team launched the restoration effort before he left the administration earlier this year, said the state [of Maryland’s] decades of neglect amounts to a “deep level of depersonalization and dehumanization.” He continued...

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“The history of institutionalization is to rob people of their personhood, and I cannot think of a better example of it than taking children, some of whom hadn’t even committed a crime, some of whom were 10 years old, having them die in custody and burying them in a potter’s field, and not acknowledging it,” [former DJS secretary Vincent] Schiraldi said. “That is not just robbing them of their personhood while they were in our care and custody, but even after death.”

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 01/08/2025

"Some students come to college 4 an education, & others simply for a credential.” The latter’s "truth will come out—that they will *flatline* in their careers because life in the real world will expose their reliance on shortcuts, cunning & cheating.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... #edusky

A screenshot from an article on a professor’s resolve for handling a student's AI f——y.
The text reads: "I will use this case in future classes as an object lesson and a warning. But I’ve also come to terms with the fact that some students come to college for an education, and others simply for a credential. The former will learn how to research, think critically, identify patterns in culture and history, and synthesize large amounts of material—which is exactly the type of mindset that will enrich our society and help them succeed. As for the latter, I have confidence that their truth will come out—that they will flatline in their careers because life in the real world will expose their reliance on shortcuts, cunning and cheating."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 20/07/2025

From www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...

Screenshot of a lesson from Frederick Douglass, Jamelle Bouie imparted, that’s useful for evaluating RW parasitic behavior: "For Frederick Douglass — the great abolitionist and thinker whose political philosophy was shaped by republican thinking — virtue includes self-respect, cultivated through education, and self-reliance. “Liberty has its manners as well as slavery,” Douglass wrote to the Black abolitionist and journalist Martin Delany in 1871, “and with those manners true self-respect goes hand in hand with a just respect for the rights and feelings of others.”

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 17/07/2025

We tried to tell y'all!!! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable."

Screenshot of what humanities faculty have been telling you people for a while: "If you’re looking for a tech job, you might be much worse off. According to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, graduates in computer science, computer engineering and graphic design all have unemployment rates at 7% or greater; young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 28/06/2025

I just spotted this Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. poster featuring this quote in his book this week. Thanks for the reminder. Full speech: www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s letter press poster featuring a quote from Frederick Douglass’s 1857 speech, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress.” The text reads: "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Source of quote: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress/

Other prints in Kennedy’s excellent book, Citizen Printer.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 22/06/2025

Barbara Christian said long ago, www.jstor.org/stable/13542... Black folk, “have been a race for theory.” How could we not be? #blackthought

Screenshot of text from Barbara Christian’s 1987 article, "The Race for Theory.” The text reads: "For people of color have always theorized—but in forms quite different from the Western form of abstract logic. And I am inclined to say that our theorizing (and I intentionally use the verb rather than the noun) is often in narrative forms, in the stories we create, in riddles and proverbs, in the play with the language, because dynamic rather than fixed ideas seem more to our liking. How else have we managed to survive which such spiritedness the assault on our bodies, social institutions, countries, our very humanity? In women, at least the women I grew up around, continuously speculated about the nature of life through pithy language that unmasked the power relations of their world. It is this language, and the grace and pleasure with which they played with it, that I find celebrated, refined, critiqued in the works of writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. My folk, in other words, have always been a race for theory — though more in the form of the hieroglyph, a written figure that is both sensual and abstract, both beautiful and communicative."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 19/06/2025

“It was Not the 'News' that Traveled Slowly [to Texas in June 1865]—it was [Military and political] 'Power,' [to finally Break Slavery's chains there]" Christopher Wilson www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee... #Juneteenth

Quote: “As with an incarcerated prisoner who may be told she's free, until the prison bars are unlocked that word only results in theoretical freedom.” Christopher Wilson

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 19/06/2025

Thanks to a history of resistance that included eavesdropping and the 'grapevine telegraph,' most enslaved Black people learned for the Emancipation Proclamation and other emancipation orders early on.

Quote: "While enslaved black people in far off places like Texas were often kept in the dark and fed a pro slavery narrative of the events of the war in the nation, whether they received word of the order wasn't so much the point." Christopher Wilson

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 19/06/2025

From historian Christopher Wilson's “It was Not the 'News' that Traveled Slowly—it was 'Power.'” www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee... #Juneteenth

Quote that reads: “Very often Juneteenth is presented as a story of ‘news’ of the Emancipation Proclamation ‘traveling slowly’ to the Deep South and Texas, but it was really a story of power traveling slowly and the freedom being seized." ~Christopher Wilson

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 15/06/2025

Back in October, the City of Newburgh (NY) unveiled a historic marker for an African American Burial Ground discovered under and around the current City Courthouse wrrv.com/newburgh-to-...

An image of a flyer from the City of Newburgh, NY African American Burial Marker Ceremony, which was held Oct 2024. The invitation reads: join us as we commemorate the African American burial ground located at 300 Broadway. This event serves as a reminder of our past, an educational opportunity for our present, and a commitment to building a more inclusive future. The bottom part of the image includes a photograph of seven African Americans (two elderly women, 1 younger woman, and a girl, and a elderly man, 1 younger man, and a boy) standing in front of a building posing for the photograph during the Civil War Era.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 08/06/2025

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Screenshot of text instructive for these f--d up times. Text reads: “There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.” Quote attributed to the Andor character Karis Nemik.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/06/2025

"Perhaps everyone is just waiting on someone else to start something that they could ignite themselves." prismreports.org/2025/06/03/i...

Screenshot of another insightful graph in William C. Anderson's essay, Another way out: Fighting back against inaction. The text reads: "Perhaps everyone is just waiting on someone else to start something that they could ignite themselves. Who among us is willing to risk life, freedom, and much more in an attempt to be a spark? Far too many among us want to be the management, influences, or self-appointed vanguard, thinking they’re supposed to direct the revolutionary actions of others. It’s silly to see in a place where the left has been beaten into a place of posturing and rhetoric."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/06/2025

"Revolutionary change is not ordered like a meal or some product online. It is also not voted in by exporting decisions to a representative. It is fought long and hard and won through persistent struggle." prismreports.org/2025/06/03/i...

Screenshot of an insightful paragraph by William C. Anderson, in Another way out: Fighting back against inaction." The text reads: "Revolutionary change is not ordered like a meal or some product online. It is also not voted in by exporting decisions to a representative. It is fought long and hard and won through persistent struggle. It’s the same struggle that we’re supposed to carry forward when we understand the lengths that others went to before us. Those making Black people collateral damage in their victim-blaming schemes aren’t much better than the liberal resignation essentializing Blackness as meaning “we’ve done enough.” Black skin doesn’t mean we inherited activism or a radical resume. If you do the work, you are those things, but not just because you fit the description of an identity. Plenty of the people we’re fighting against right now represent the diversification of empire and fascism, since our adversaries are not only white men. "

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 21/05/2025

From Aubrey Hirsch's "The Real Dangers Women Face" (Which are not at all the dangers Republicans "want" to "protect" us from)

Screenshot of an Aubrey Hirsch graphic: at the top, the text reads: "You're more likely to die doing any of these activities than you are having an abortion." Then, there are clockwise drawings of three women doing activities: 1) a woman wearing a purple scuba suit and a breathing tank with the text "Scuba Diving" next to her. 2) a brown woman in rock-climbing gear (a helmet, top, shorts, and harness) attached to a structure that she is climbing with "Rock Climbing" next to her. 3) A woman in a hat, top, and shorts, running, with "Running a Marathon" next to her.
The text at the bottom reads: "But No One is trying to Criminalize Them."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 11/05/2025

Another delightful puzzle assembled: Faith Ringgold’s "Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles."

Picture of an assembled jigsaw puzzle: Faith Ringgold's "The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles." It features eight Black women change-makers standing together in a row: [Madam C.J. Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Ella Baker. Ringgold added her fictional character, Willa Marie Simone, a fictional composite of her 16 year old self, in the lower left beside Walker] and one white man off to the side [Vincent Van Gogh, holding a vase with 15 roses] in a field of sunflowers with trees and the sky in the background. The 8 Black women hold the edge of the quilt with a sunflower pattern across it. The text around the border identifies the women by name and "Sunflower Quilters Society of America, March 22, 1922, an International Symbol of our Dedication to Change the World."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 15/04/2025

h/t ‪wanderer86.bsky.social‬ and michaelharriot.bsky.social

An image of a quote of handwritten text that reads: “But What Can I do, I am just one person” said 7 billion people.

Followed by a heart.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 31/03/2025

‪H/t jentaub:‬ Woodcut from Michael Kuch. Free download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1h2wR...

"We Can Do It!" by Michael Kuch ©️ 2025 features a woodcut illustration of a sinewy hand raised in a fist, reminiscent of the WWII Rosie the Riveter campaign. The text above the drawing states: Fuck Fascism. The text below the drawing says: We Can Do It!

In smaller font, it reads: Michael Kuch ©️ 2025.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 14/03/2025

Princess and Perlah remain two of the funniest characters on #thepitt —excellent writing and acting by Kristin Villanueva and Amielynn Abellera.

Photograph of an emergency room scene from Max’s TV show "The Pitt" featuring two Filipino-American women nurses gossiping about workplace chaos, played by actresses Kristin Villanueva (left) and Amielynn Abellera (right, and wearing a head-covering).

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13/03/2025

When Zora, the #zzplant I’m always sure I’m killing dead shoots out a flower. 💃🏾 Now I have no excuse for giving her the dusting she needs. 😬 #plantsky

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13/03/2025

“The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.” h/t ‪lostvagus.bsky.social‬

Image quote with the image of a dark scene with a straight, long, wet road lined with trees and lighted lamp posts on both sides. The text reads: “The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting."

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 01/03/2025

When @profblmkelley.bsky.social throws an event, she throws an event. The crowd at the inaugural North Carolina #LegaciesofLynchingNC event. Local activists have done amazing, courageous work unearthing and confronting this history in the name of justice.

A picture of a large crowd people of different backgrounds in a North Carolina auditorium at UNC Chapel Hill for the Legacies of Lynching inaugural event.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 28/02/2025

And to Legacy Museum. Thanks for letting me know Dr. Learotha Williams.

Book shelf in the EJI’s Legacy Museum bookstore. Books include I Saw Death Coming by yours truly. 💃🏾

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 22/02/2025

Tom Cox on technowankers and more tomcox.substack.com/p/your-billi...

Screenshot: If you are a tech bro billionaire, you can delete the receding hairline your ancestry has saddled you with and replace it with a tight-knit block of follicular robo-growth, you can change your face, change public opinion en masse with the power of the misinformation you spread via your digital platform and the more moderate and considered voices you are able to algorithmically drown out, send rockets into space, buy yourself a position at the forefront of political life despite being singularly unqualified for such a position. You can, because of all this, probably convince yourself there is in fact nothing you cannot do. But here you will be incorrect. What you can't do is ever be a reflective, compassionate human being who can grasp, with any feeling, the harm of your actions. The bubble of unreality you have constructed around yourself - the one which no longer contains anyone who tells you the truth - will be too well-insulated for that to be possible. You would probably believe you are enhancing your legacy with each additional chunk of power you purchase if you hadn't already dismissed the concept of "legacy" due to your conviction that, for yourself (although not for the minions) you can invent everlasting life. But, despite what you have convinced yourself, one day you will, just like every one else, die. In the final moments, you will be reduced to something frail and helpless. Your billions will not grant you an exemption from that. Maybe right then, in that reduced state, the last thing you will see is the true horror of what you were: the rippling evil of all the choices you could have made with your money and didn't, and the repercussions for the planet. Then it will be over. Those voices - the ones with no capacity for critical thinking - who said, "I f***ing love that dude, he really tells it like it is - I wanna be rich like him one day!" will gradually fade. All that will remain will be the more rational and sane voice of history above y…

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