Ashton J. Wingate

Digital Archivist 704 | 919 | 202 | 718 ~ Thai food, Seinfeld, Hip-Hop, Sneakers and NBA basketball

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@playoffMAL @kevinwildes #HalfBakedIdeas

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@Hoop_District @JohnWall @TKLittles

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@kevinwildes He said it!!! #DefenseWinsChampionships

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Extremely proud of the Archives team at @NAACP_LDF! I am humbled to have the opportunity to preserve the history of this great org and share these powerful stories and historical documents with the world. Visit https://t.co/cbCdSnn0To today!

[Legal Defense Fund @NAACP_LDF]

NEW: LDF's dedicated Archives team has just released "Recollection," a searchable archive that will give litigators, advocates, researchers, students, and the general public insight into eight decades of LDF's records.
https://t.co/cQe1Zxyj4u

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@DeePhunk @KooleyHigh

[American Library Association @ALALibrary]

On this week’s @LastWeekTonight, @iamjohnoliver made several great points about supporting our public libraries. Here are some highlights, and ways you can stay informed and take action. #FreePeopleReadFreely 🧵

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Duke admits 11% of the general applicants but 23% of legacy applicants—whose parents and grandparents parents were accepted during Jim Crow.

Duke didn’t even accept Black students until 1963. Now Black scholarships are banned but racist Jim Crow Legacy thrives.

This is America.

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HOMETEAM!

[Jase Alston @SoulCitySigma]

There are many Black librarians across the country. However, the history of Black librarians and their fight for the right to literacy and access to information for all Black Americans has never really been told before

https://t.co/DaRqZFUmnA

[Jase Alston @SoulCitySigma]

The public library needs to always remain 1 of the few climate controlled facilities that any unbanned person can enter & peacefully be in without an expectation that they buy or contribute something or else have membership. Societies must always have something of that nature

[Ashton J. Wingate @AshtonInStereo]

@ericcbarnes @Cigna @Buckeyes1117 @JasonLaCanfora @billpitcher Thanks for the shout out! I’m a faithful listener but happened to miss the last half of this episode and had no idea this email was read! I believe this is the first time Tony has described one of my emails as “brilliant” 😎. You’re doing the lords work Eric!

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@loyallittlespod Nice sneaks!

[Jase Alston @SoulCitySigma]

This attempt to besmirch a great Black librarian has backfired on a cosmic scale & I love to see it. I know the blue check gets $ from my engagement but signal boosting all these Black ppl on this app stand w him & speaking positively about libraries makes it worth it

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Fahrenheit 451 was never my favorite Bradbury/dystopian fiction because it felt a little too blunt, too far-fetched in its metaphor— the state deploying high-tech 'firemen' to burn books to maintain its censorship regime? A bit on the nose.

Currently reevaluating that assessment

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Of course… because #school isn’t a place where you send children to learn. Creating an intelligent generation of citizens that seek new information, test its validity and integrate into their world-view is the last thing we would want 😒. #HISD #Libraries #Houston