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Only posting this because visibility matters to our communities. Yesterday the Board of Regents voted to approve my tenure and promotion. I was a first generation college student. A Puerto Rican woman, who according to others, was not suppose to be here. Here I am, y’all. 🇵🇷❤️🇵🇷
Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez retweeted
Take a look at this op ed from @Melli75, author of PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO: Schooling the City, 1940-1977, on @LatinoNewsNet_
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Happy to share that my first piece as a Public Voices Fellow is out! #PublicVoices latinonewsnetwork.com/educat…
The irony that students, faculty, and staff got an email telling us to conserve energy on campus while the University installed the biggest scoreboard in college football. (Whose lights are visible in neighboring towns.)
According to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Alicia WAS homeless as a child!!!!! #RHORI @BravoWWHL @Andy
The Real Housewives of Rhode Island is what we needed in the world today. Please don’t ever let them go away.
Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez retweeted
Last day to get your *free* e-book of PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 by @Melli75!
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#Chicago #LatinoStudies #Eduication #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth
cc: @EDUatIllinois
Please be kind to me. My away message is gone. This is who I am again for the next 9 months. Emails. Meetings. Five conference papers this fall that winter me committed us to…
Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez retweeted
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Congrats, @CombaheeQT , for winning the 2025 ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award! #Histed @ISCHE_org @HistEdUSA
Interesting panel on the status of history of education across the world , from our various societies. Obvious, and sad, that we are linked by a disinvestment in our field no matter where we are. (@HistEdUSA being represented well!) #histed #ISCHE2025
They know what they’re doing…restricting our access to information, limiting our ability to do research. This allows their revisionists histories to be written, allowing them to celebrate and center whiteness, teaching lies.
There’s absolutely nothing that will protect you from this facist regime. Nothing. And for folks supporting this violence and dictatorship , we won’t be there to stop them from coming after you.
BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after interrupting a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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I have very little expectation from a government built off of genocide, dispossession, and history of enslavement.















