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'One cannot understand Coretta Scott King as a person or an activist without exploring the impact of her husband’s assassination and his absence. Some of her most important activism occurred after his death.' (@jasokol)
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Jason Sokol retweeted
This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Alan Jenkins on Martin Amis; Seamus Perry on Byron; @aknight613 on Belarus; @rwilliamsparis on Sarah Bernhardt; @jasokol on MLK; @LucyLethbridge on the seaside ... (1/2)
Which Martin Luther King Are We Celebrating Today? nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opini…
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Congrats to @celso_thomas who was elected President of CLAH!
This is from 2018, but still quite relevant, I think.
America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again? nytimes.com/2018/03/22/opini…
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June 9, 2022, Amazon Audible will release, "The History of Brooklyn," written and narrated by yours truly. Can't list all whose work made it possible, but have to note @builtbrooklyn; @brooklynhistory; @pkanaka; @craigswilder; @AnneliseOrleck1; @TarryHum; @kellybklyn
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Adolph L. Reed Jr. explains how the South was transformed by the fall of Jim Crow -- and how it wasn’t -- in “The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives,” @VersoBooks @jasokol
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Very sad abt his passing. Did a field w him @UCBHistory in the early 2000s. Could still see him walking down College Ave w his young child. Felt proud af that he had been my prof the year he was pres of the AHA.
Tyler Stovall, Ph.D., dean of @FordhamGSAS, discusses the history of #Juneteenth and its significance in America today.
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Much thanks to @ProfJeffries. This episode of "Teaching Hard History," is fantastic: learningforjustice.org/podca…
@jakobiwill and @racewomanist are amazing scholars and teachers.
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A new era is dawning “Boston’s mayors relied so heavily on turnout from ethnic enclaves that they had no need to build a multiethnic coalition…They did not have to express any vision, nor did they end up governing with much vision.” @jasokol via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/09/10/us/bo…
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Thanks to Clay Risen for getting it just right. Leon Litwack brought "an ethos of patriotic dissent" to his teaching and scholarship. And he taught students that first and foremost, listen to the sources and learn to understand them. #EverythinghasaHistory @UCBHistory
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Tonight my 10 minute comedy “The 75th Mayor of Boston” streams online in the @FreshInkTheatre Boston in Ten festival...spoiler alert - it imagines Boston 100 years from now & @MayorKimJaney makes a star appearance (played by the great Lauren Foster)! fb.me/e/1C9sxh6Q1
Jason Sokol retweeted
Tonight my 10 minute comedy “The 75th Mayor of Boston” streams online in the @FreshInkTheatre Boston in Ten festival...spoiler alert - it imagines Boston 100 years from now & @MayorKimJaney makes a star appearance (played by the great Lauren Foster)! fb.me/e/1C9sxh6Q1
