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public historian preserving and amplifying HBCU radio voices at hbcuradiopreservation.org

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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A dream team of colleagues and friends honored the inspiring life and work of the late activist-scholar Johanna Fernández this morning at the #ASALH meeting in Norfolk — including Mumia Abu Jamal in a prepared recording. Ashe. Rest in Power, Dr. Fernández.
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
paradise
Salmon River, CT
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🤩🤩🤩
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks against Trump administration censorship
Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One of the biggest opponents of air conditioning in Texas prisons, as I wrote a few years ago, is now the Mayor of Houston: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Houston Mayor John Whitmire kept Texas prisons hot as 'living hell'
"The real solution is don't commit a crime, and you stay at home and be cool."
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
An absolute hero when it comes to fighting government secrecy and bringing to public one of the most important archives in the history of policing.
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Old New York Police Surveillance Is Found, Forcing Big Brother Out of Hiding (Published 2016)
Boxes found in a Queens warehouse contain files about the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam and the Young Lords.
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is horrible news. Dr. Fernandez was a brilliant and determined scholar who not only wrote & taught about struggles for racial and economic justice but understood how historians could serve those movements themselves. Her book on the Young Lords is simply elite. She’ll be so deeply missed. RIP
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We just want to be treated like humans’: how a Latino neighborhood is rallying after an ICE shooting
The murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo shook Houston’s Magnolia Park but strengthened bonds in a barrio grappling with gentrification and history of police violence
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/06/2026
After anti-ICE protesters were hit with sentences ranging from 30 to 50 years, the administration is now targeting Cop City demonstrators in Atlanta. trib.al/CALJ0Uw
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The Trump Administration’s War on Dissent Has a New Target
After anti-ICE protesters were hit with sentences ranging from 30 to 50 years, the administration is now targeting Cop City demonstrators in Atlanta.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This terrifying story is not getting nearly enough attention @theguardian.com
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Every year, the remembrance around George Floyd's murder grows quieter and right-wing attempts to retcon the meaning and significance of those massive protests grows louder. Apparently we've now reached the racist joke stage of that process. It's v grim.
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Many thanks to @adriawalkr.bsky.social for her reporting in @us.theguardian.com and spreading the word about the HBCU Radio Preservation Project’s mission to help safeguard and communicate Black history on radio. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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In the 60s and 70s, Black students demanded a voice on radio. A new project ensures that history isn’t lost
The HBCU Radio Preservation Project celebrates stations that were an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, to help people understand their importance
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
people think abolishing the police is crazy but these clowns are out here abolishing the Voting Rights Act right now
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Pleased to share the HBCU Radio Preservation Project’s new website, hbcuradiopreservation.org I’m hoping we've built a communal space that reflects the culture and spirit of our team while honoring the rich histories of the stations we’re preserving alongside.
hbcuradiopreservation.org
HBCU Radio Preservation Project
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“There is power in grief, because grief draws us together in moments when our enemies would tear us apart.”
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/11/2025
Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 14/09/2025
This is structurally similar to the critique of Zionism as “a machine for the conversion of grief into power.” This is why you see ethnonationalist regimes instantly exploit martyrs to erode norms and increase their power. Victims “on their side” aren’t tragedies—they are fuel.
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On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer - Dissent Magazine
How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Some of us have studied and understand regeneration through violence as a real rich historical phenomenon; its roots, which run deep and wide, are integral to US national identity, ideology, and mythology.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Dems don't want a platform, they want a vocabulary, and that is the fundamental problem
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We did for sure- great spot
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
work trip
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
glen helen nature preserve
Glen Helen Nature Preserve / Yellow Springs, Ohio
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/08/2025
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It's a weird day for those of us who were only allowed to watch PBS as kids.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
For the second year in a row, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair is wearing cleats in solidarity Palestine. My coworker @michaelshapiro.bsky.social talked to Azeez last year about them: "The biggest thing I can attest to is just being steadfast in my beliefs." www.chron.com/sports/texan...
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Texans star uses 'Free Palestine' cleats to support voiceless
Houston's linebacker is taking a stand.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
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[Highlighting begins] But the shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and may lead some to further scrutinize Mr. Mamdani, [Highlighting ends] who has relatively limited experience in government and has not handled a high-profile crisis while in office.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life. It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Have you heard the good news? A forthcoming conference will launch the The Association of Law and Political Economy: a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for open participation and collaboration.
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CFP: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference
A forthcoming conference will launch the The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE): a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for…
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Excited to announce the HBCU Radio Preservation Project is hiring a FT Public Historian! As this field goes, the job is multifaceted. You'll work collaboratively, record oral histories, tell stories digitally, help plan symposia, write publicly, and more. Happy to answer any questions bit.ly/4eWchjZ
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Job Posting: Public Historian, HBCU Radio Preservation Project
The HBCU Radio Preservation Project seeks a public historian.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I so appreciate this piece by Antonio Ramirez about the history of convict leasing in Florida's swamplands, and the effort by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and others, to end it. In violent and brutal places, there are always people resisting, affirming life, imagining freedom. time.com/7302799/dark...
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The Dark History That Predates Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz'
The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk." Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 07/07/2025
Prison labor exists but prisons are better characterized as warehouses for the reserve army of labor.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
If you missed this discussion with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @tamikamiddleton.bsky.social, @dnbrgr.bsky.social + @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social on the importance of interrupting criminalization and abolitionist organizing to fight against fascism/authoritarianism, check out the recording:
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Free America Study Sessions: Freedom and Abolition
YouTube video by Women's March
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Forget history, we can’t learn from the immediate past, where we all were, like five minutes ago.
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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
PLEASE SPREAD!!! CMB has purchased 14 acres of farm land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, movement retreat meeting, and training space. We are specifically raising money to support the building of our retreat space on the land! fundrazr.com/LoveLandLibe...
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Love Land and Liberation - Black Farm Project
CMB has purchased 14 acres of land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, movement retreat meeting and training space. We are specifically raising money to support the building ...
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Very pleased to announce preorders for my forthcoming book, Living in the D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made (Atria/One Signal), is available wherever you buy your books. Coming out January 2026! The preorder link is in the comments. I can't wait for you all to read!
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will tchakirides @willtchak.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I never got a chance to meet my WYSO colleague, Mary Evans, as I work remotely in Houston. But her work reporting on people’s lived experiences of incarceration and re-entry is so vital. Rest in power and condolences to a shaken family and community. 😢 www.wyso.org/reentrystories
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ReEntry Stories | WYSO
Conversations, stories and perspectives from returned citizens in Southwest Ohio
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 21/06/2025
So SLAVERY.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/06/2025
If they’re going to charge municipal officials with assault for requesting to see a warrant, I don’t see the benefit of ensuring all anti-ICE actions are orderly or “peaceful.” You can be an elected official calmly invoking procedural norms, they don’t care.
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