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Sheryll Cashin

@sheryllcashin.bsky.social
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Author of WHITE SPACE, BLACK HOOD and other books; Law Prof at Georgetown; contributing Writer to POLITICO Mag; visual artist, wife, mother of twins, harried.

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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thank you for four decades of service to the #Smithsonian and the nation Dr. Bunch (Lonnie, my former neighbor)! He deserves his rest. The battle for truth and reckoning with history continues. Let Freedom Ring! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Democracy is not self-executing. Every generation, @sheryllcashin.bsky.social says, must decide whether it will preserve the constitutional order it inherited or surrender it. #America250 buff.ly/E3GN7o9
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Has Trump Changed Democracy Forever? We Asked 11 Historians.
Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rare, mean truth. Thank you! @jamellebouie.net Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
An overt violation of law and sad fragility. It must be exhausting to be ruled by racism. My God is love. www.axios.com/2026/07/21/w...
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Inside a group's push for whites-only communities "heritage communities"
They aim to withstand legal challenges by operating essentially as private clubs.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m so honored to be included here, quite a diversity of opinion! Thanks @politico.com ! @georgetownlaw.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Has Trump Changed Democracy Forever? We Asked 11 Historians.
Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My MSNow Opinion on the Founders I valorize, because they opposed slavery in their time. Do you know them? An alternative title for this piece might have been, "What to a Civil Rights baby is the 250th Fourth of July? #USA250 #blacksky #writersky #booksky #bluesky www.ms.now/opinion/amer...
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Opinion | The founders who saw no exceptions to ‘all men are created equal’
Sheryll Cashin: We must rebuke the idea that opposing slavery was not an option at our nation’s founding
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This anniversary of Loving v. Virginia is an apt time for reflection on the marriage of differences that is the US and how we might improve the Union. Just as true as it was during the 50th anniversary. @sheryllcashin.bsky.social
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On 50 Years of Loving, That Most Radical of Acts
To love beyond boundaries is the most radical of acts. It also requires optimism. Richard Loving must have followed the light of his surname. In news clips he didn’t smile much, perhaps because his…
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy @LovingDay ! In 'Loving,' Cashin delivers unflinching history lesson on interracial intimacy mississippitoday.org/2018/08/15/i...
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In 'Loving,' Cashin delivers unflinching history lesson on interracial intimacy - Mississippi Today
From beginning to end, novel is a review of the nation’s tense, violent and unsavory struggle to come to terms with interracial relationships over the course of 400 years.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
General "Chappie James" and my dad were great friends. He would come to our home. A must read on how Hegseth is destroying meritocracy and resurrecting racism. #blacksky #bluesky #blackhistory www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military
The secretary of defense is sending the message that Black service members are not welcome.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Moral bankruptcy and destruction of the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
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Supreme Court Clears Path for Alabama to Use New Voting Map
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Bottom line re #Callais case. Six unelected conservatives have rewritten the VRA, applying a colorblind absolutism from SFFA v. Harvard to deny Congress the ability to remedy disparate racial harms to minority voters. We are back to 1880s, with a Court openly hostile to Reconstruction, ie democracy!
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Bottom line re #Callais case. Six unelected conservatives have rewritten the VRA, applying a colorblind absolutism from SFFA v. Harvard to deny Congress the ability to remedy disparate racial harms to minority voters. We are back to 1880s, with a Court openly hostile to Reconstruction, ie democracy!
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The death toll due to his Administration will be in the millions, summarize here! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My favorite #NoKings sign from the weekend. Democracy is not dead yet. Onward!
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Me on Bloomberg Law today, on how a federal judge is checking DJT‘s Orwellian move to erase inconvenient history about the people Washington enslaved. The pendulum is swinging. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Slavery Exhibit, Climate Suits & Zuckerberg Testifies
Podcast Episode · Bloomberg Law · February 20 · 37m
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
While the southern civil rights movement had been powered mainly by middle-class people, Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted to organize with people trapped in concentrated poverty in Chicago. Don’t overlook his years in the Jim Crow North. @sheryllcashin.bsky.social
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Radical Vision of Replacing Residential Caste with Communities of Love and Justice
By Sheryll Cashin | As a daughter of civil rights activists from Alabama who knew Dr. King personally, it is a great honor to address you today for a Sunrise Celebration of him! And it is a joy for…
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Me on Bloomberg Law today, on how a federal judge is checking DJT‘s Orwellian move to erase inconvenient history about the people Washington enslaved. The pendulum is swinging. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Slavery Exhibit, Climate Suits & Zuckerberg Testifies
Podcast Episode · Bloomberg Law · February 20 · 37m
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In conversation with Wil Haywood tomorrow 2-10 @politicsprose.bsky.social on his excellent new book. Connecticut Avenue 7 PM come join us!
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The wise, genius of babes. Would that they were running the world! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Dear ICE: Letters From Students Living in Fear
ICE took their classmate. They started writing letters.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The wise, genius of babes. Would that they were running the world! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Dear ICE: Letters From Students Living in Fear
ICE took their classmate. They started writing letters.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It is worse than you think, DJT is deleting data, research, Black History, and the entire infrastructure for enforcing civil rights. #blacksky #bluesky www.axios.com/2025/11/29/f...
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America stares down erasure of Black history and progress
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It is worse than you think, DJT is deleting data, research, Black History, and the entire infrastructure for enforcing civil rights. #blacksky #bluesky www.axios.com/2025/11/29/f...
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America stares down erasure of Black history and progress
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Ha! This is what DC Halloween-resistance looks like!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2025
Jeffries: "We will not be intimidated by Vought, who's totally out of control. The OMB has been illegally shutting down parts of the govt throughout the entire year, & the notion Dems are gonna be intimidated when all he's done is send a message that Republicans are determined to hurt people ... "
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
ICYMI you can stream this on PBS for free until Oct. 8 here: video.mpt.tv/video/becomi...
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Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect
Explore the life and legacy of the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
1. I pray for Charlie Kirk's family, may he rest in peace, and for our country. He did not deserve to be assassinated for engaging in civil debate, which was once a cornerstone of our Republic. Working across the aisle was once normal. Now, if we are honest, political violence is normal. God help us
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Participating in this documentary was pure joy, I loved the boss! It’s excellent. Hope you will watch it on PBS.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
“Our Health secretary is a certified quack.” We are living in a bad B rated dystopian movie. “www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/…
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Opinion | Vax Quack Lacks Facts
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Again, this is what #autocracy looks like. Homeland Security policing minor traffic violations?! Despots gain power by stoking fear. Liberty disappears when the People and their fragile representatives cease exercising it. We become less safe and less free. @beaconpress.bsky.social wapo.st/47qWIPB
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Checkpoint with ICE agents met by protesters in D.C.
Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars at a busy intersection for seat belt violations or broken taillights, as onlookers protested.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is what autocracy looks like. It’s a very old playbook for DJ T. Only this time he’s the commander in chief and gets to use the District as his reality show set. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Trump places DC police under federal control, deploys National Guard
The president called it “liberation day” for the nation’s capital.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is what autocracy looks like. It’s a very old playbook for DJ T. Only this time he’s the commander in chief and gets to use the District as his reality show set. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Trump places DC police under federal control, deploys National Guard
The president called it “liberation day” for the nation’s capital.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The truth is mean. Evil indeed ...#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer #blacksky #bluesky
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
1/ The constitution says only Congress can declare war. At most the commander-in-chief can repel attacks. Iran did not attack the US. This war is unconstitutional. As ill considered, as it was, at least the Iraq War was based on a congressional authorization of military force. #Iran #bluesky
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
1/ The constitution says only Congress can declare war. At most the commander-in-chief can repel attacks. Iran did not attack the US. This war is unconstitutional. As ill considered, as it was, at least the Iraq War was based on a congressional authorization of military force. #Iran #bluesky
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Let freedom ring! Happy Juneteenth!
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My dad, Dr. John Cashin, Jr., was a Meharry-trained dentist & valedictorian. He founded a third party to give Black voters the chance to run for office and vote for themselves. Ran for governor against George Wallace, to help down-ballot local candidates win! He was a total badass! #FathersDay
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A LOT could happen in the next 48 hours. Most Americans believe people who have not been duly convicted of a crime should not be snatched and deported without due process. And that the US military should not be used to displace the state and local governments citizens voted for. Be heard. #NoKings
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
RIP to a Giant, yeah he and his music took funk, and cool to the stratosphere, watch Questlove’s documentary on him, amazing! #blacksky #Sly www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/a...
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Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted, Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
RIP to a Giant, yeah he and his music took funk, and cool to the stratosphere, watch Questlove’s documentary on him, amazing! #blacksky #Sly www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/a...
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Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted, Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Musk ... did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children." An estimated 300,000 have died because he put USAID in the "wood chipper", most of them children. Who, really, is pro-life? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Musk ... did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children." An estimated 300,000 have died because he put USAID in the "wood chipper", most of them children. Who, really, is pro-life? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I am humbled to be included here, especially under the category of civil rights along with my magnificent colleague @dorothyabrown.bsky.social . All I have is my voice and you do too! I’m not posting much in order to get a new book written. Coming summer 2026! www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/07/w...
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Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025
Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I am humbled to be included here, especially under the category of civil rights along with my magnificent colleague @dorothyabrown.bsky.social . All I have is my voice and you do too! I’m not posting much in order to get a new book written. Coming summer 2026! www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/07/w...
washingtonian.com
Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025
Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Addressing her as "Carla" and not Dr. Hayden in the two-sentence email firing her was intentional, a signal of their disrespect and yes, racism. They wanted their base to revel in it. Nasty, indeed. But with a plethora of such moves I pray most Americans will choose decency in 2026. wapo.st/4iZJXxv
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Trump fires Library of Congress chief Carla Hayden, citing DEI
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Addressing her as "Carla" and not Dr. Hayden in the two-sentence email firing her was intentional, a signal of their disrespect and yes, racism. They wanted their base to revel in it. Nasty, indeed. But with a plethora of such moves I pray most Americans will choose decency in 2026. wapo.st/4iZJXxv
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Trump fires Library of Congress chief Carla Hayden, citing DEI
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
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Sheryll Cashin @sheryllcashin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thanks to all new followers, don't know where y'all are coming from but I appreciate you! Here is more on Pope Leo's Creole ancestry, it is an utterly American story. As I wrote in my book Loving, constructed race lines broke up alliances and forced people to make choices. wapo.st/4iWtdaC
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Pope Leo XIV’s Creole ancestry uncovered
After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.
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