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We're honoured to add Yara Eid (@yaraeid_ ) to the speakers for this Wednesday night in London.
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National Union Solidarity Day In NYC Draws Big Names Amid Big Crowd: Jesse Eisenberg, Carla Gugino, F. Murray Abraham & More deadline.com/2023/08/hollywo…
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#HappyBirthday #JamesBaldwin, born #OTD in 1924. The writer, activist, + passionate civil rights advocate found a home and inspiration in #GreenwichVillage, even as he struggled against prejudice + to produce great literature. More on his enduring legacy: villagepreservation.org/2017…
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#OTD in 2015, we got @TheStonewallNYC landmarked after an 18-month campaign, the first #LGBTQ+ site landmarked in NYC. At the time we were also campaigning for landmark designation of @JULIUSBARNYC @LGBTCenterNYC + other sites ALL since landmarked: villagepreservation.org/camp…
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THE PEOPLE SPEAK — AND SING!
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 8:00 p.m
Join leading artists and activists at @TownHallNYC on May 2nd for the book launch of Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century! @vph
Click here for tickets: bit.ly/SpeakTH502
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NYC!
Don’t miss “The People Speak — and Sing!” A celebration of Voices of A People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 2nd at @TownHallNYC, presented by
@vph
Details & tix: thetownhall.org/event/the-pe…
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My Country is the World
Join Luke Stewart, Cathy Wilkerson, & Alice Lynd for a conversation on Staughton Lynd's activism against the war in Vietnam.
Wednesday, March 8th at 5:30 pm ET
RSVP to attend:
eventbrite.com/e/my-country-…
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Black Women Writers at Work
Join @imaniperry and @surlybassey for a discussion of Claudia Tate and the reissue of her classic book Black Women Writers At Work.
Monday, March 6th at 6:30 pm ET
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eventbrite.com/e/black-women…
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The 50th anniversary of the Wounded Knee occupation starts with a four directions march. This is the south march, the same path Oglalas caravaned into Wounded Knee on Feb. 27, 1973. Today—Liberation Day—is a national holiday for the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
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Read @vph co-founder Anthony Arnove’s reflections on working with Howard Zinn to organize that first performance twenty years ago, and the continuing work of celebrating People’s History xitter.cf/vph/status/16287869108…
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#HBD Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938), suffragist, writer & reformer who fought to help & protect Native Americans. Worked w/ General Fed. of Women’s Clubs (1921) & founded Nat’l Council of American Indians (1926). Fought for women & Native American suffrage. bit.ly/3HWXG82
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White supremacists are attempting to control our people's future by erasing our past. But we won't let them. The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win.
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Born on this day in 1915, Claudia Jones became a leading figure in the US anti-racist movement who highlighted the oppression faced by black women. The US authorities deported Jones for her communist views in 1955, but they couldn’t snuff out her legacy. jacobin.com/2023/02/claudia-…
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“I think the College Board needs to be abolished. It's an institution that was founded in eugenics and white supremacy, and we have far better models of education to look to." -- @JessedHagopian, ZEP team & @RethinkSchools editor, via @TeenVogue Read ⬇️
teenvogue.com/story/college-…
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Coming up on 2/23 at 4 p.m. (free and virtual)! @brainyandbrawny and @EmilyMBrooksPhD will be in conversation with @lesliemalex about her new book Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States. See you there! eventbrite.com/e/teaching-bl…
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“It is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.” —Frederick Douglass
ALT “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.” —Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in February, 1818. He later chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14th.
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"The anti-CRT campaign . . . is the curricular counterpart to the wave of voter suppression laws [and] promoted by the same far-right political forces . . ." @RethinkSchools
The right aims to deny young people the lens of history, a key tool in fighting voter suppression today.
ALT Dark blue and orange text on white background: Lawmakers across the U.S. are trying to stop young people from learning this history. #TeachTruth
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FREE E-BOOK! Thanks @haymarketbooks! What a great gift during this week.
In light of the recent round of attacks on the freedom to read, this book has been made free for all to download.
Get your copy. Link in bio.
