Don’t have time to read my whole piece on antiBlackness in the Mexican American fight against school desegregation? Check out this video in which I recap the main points and highlights. #historyofeducation#Texashistory https://t.co/xw1r62g99K
This is everything. My their spirit and will to get what they are owed guide all of us trying to do the Lord’s work in the face of so much evil. Ashé and amen
First up is Arkansas. To pay for its segregation scholarship program, AR took money out of the operating budget of what was then called Arkansas AM&N, present-day @uapbinfo. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul. https://t.co/anLj97pAB7
Join us Wednesday, October 16 from 1:30-3:30 CT for a lecture by Dr. Linda Perkins on her new book; a panel of TAMU faculty with research expertise in Black women’s studies will comment on her talk before an open Q&A.
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Happy Gullah Geechee Heritage Month and Hoodoo Heritage Month. Today is a good day to get into one of the many legacies the ancestors gifted to the Gullah Geechee—stories about the Flying Africans—folktales of spiritual comfort and resistance.
Join us Wednesday, October 16 from 1:30-3:30 CT for a lecture by Dr. Linda Perkins on her new book; a panel of TAMU faculty with research expertise in Black women’s studies will comment on her talk before an open Q&A.
REGISTER TO ATTEND ONLINE AT: https://t.co/MUKjID7elA
Did you know @NYTimes described @ZinnEdProject and @learnforjustice as "unacceptably left-leaning by critics" and didn't name the "critics?" That means you should check out their history ed. resources for yourself (I appreciate their quality and depth!). https://t.co/zQJKsqM47M
I’m Jazmyne Baylor, a Research & Instruction Librarian at Western Carolina University.
I’m researching African American libraries and reading spaces in Appalachia during the segregation era.
For more information, email Jazmyne Baylor at [email protected]
2. My alma mater University of Pennsylvania honored me w/ an Early Career Award. Definitely taken aback. I never need an excuse to return to Philly, but getting to see some of my favorite faces made my 22 hour excursion all the better.
5/ Published a short piece for practitioners in which I discuss how we have seen before a version of the political moment we are in so it’s important to focus on serving Black learners and take to heart the lessons our ancestors have left for us to leave Black learners.
6/ Published a paper in a major social studies journal about a website, “Waco History” and how it tells a very white version of Waco’s history. Getting this paper into the world was quite the journey, but having A1 collaborators made it way more enjoyable than it could have been