Cheyney McKnight

📚Public Historian 🎭Performance Artist 🤲🏾Historical Interpreter ⛓Abolitionist 📹 YouTube Channel: NotYourMommasHistory

[Melissa Houston @musingmuseum]

I know some of the most amazing people. @MommasHistory visited Newtown Historical Society this weekend. Our tiny historical society could offer some deep, meaningful, beautiful learning through Cheyney's teaching. ❤️

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

These are images of Cheyney McKnight from @MommasHistory who was recently featured in this Vogue spread. Reflecting on her penchant for mixing historical silhouettes with modern textiles like Dutch wax prints, McKnight said, "[i]f my ancestors could dress however they wanted to, I imagine this is how they wanted to dress...Everything I do—everything—is for my ancestors." Note the Django Jane bamboo knockers. ✊🏿 https://t.co/1vWemLqkFu

[S&D Rubin Foundation / The 8th Floor @RubinFoundation]

🌿 Striking moments from "Trans-cimiento" by #FlaviaMarcusBien on Saturday with @MommasHistory 🪴 A transcript of the inspiring conversation between the performers and curator #AlexisHeller will be online soon! 📸 Charles Roussel

[The New York Historical @NYHistory]

What’s the history behind #Juneteenth? Join us this Wednesday with @MommasHistory to explore the history and traditions of the holiday. https://t.co/309WGiCEld #CivicSeason

[jawl98.bsky.social @JAWL98]

This #Juneteenth Weekend, I want to share + uplift my cousin @MommasHistory’s work to change how Black history is depicted through her living history interpretations!

You should def check it out!

Cheyney McKnight Rewrites Black History in America https://t.co/Qa8Q9i69jo

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Living historian and @MommasHistory founder Cheyney McKnight is changing how Black history is depicted in the U.S.

(filmed at @HHValley)

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

@KimberlyNFoster Just in case you need an expert. I can tell you that domestic labor did not begin with American chattel slavery. Enslaved persons worked in almost every profession. The job did not make a person a slave, but their status as property. 😒

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

@namoore Facts ❤️

[jawl98.bsky.social @JAWL98]

Last 2 1/2 days = intense 🔥

I planned & spoke at a press conference for @BOENYC GOP Commish Mamorato to approve an early voting site for #AD87 voters in Parkchester, hosted by AM @KarinesReyesNYC, and incl. @AOC, @scottmstringer, @JumaaneWilliams, @LuisSepulvedaNY, & others

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

Getting fitted for winter clothes! Modeling skirt mock up!

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

My story of how I became a black reenactor https://t.co/ijySZFZGo6

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

@magthehistorian Now that feels great!

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

Black people demand results for your vote! No more should Democrats take our votes, and throw us scraps or do nothing in return! Multiple times in contested elections it has been black people that have delivered the win to Democrats. We demand results!

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

@NYGovCuomo Thank you Mr. Cuomo for fighting tooth and nail to save our lives. I see you. It means a lot that you aren’t just letting this happen. You aren’t just accepting the cards we were dealt. You are fighting for a reshuffle.

[Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo]

No American is immune.

What is happening in New York is NOT an anomaly.

We will share the lessons learned here across this country.

#COVID19

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

FYI

[Mike Kelton @mikekelton]

THREAD: Although I haven’t been able to obtain a test, I’m currently on day 6 of what is most likely the Corona Virus. After hearing Trump talk about how we need to go back to work, I wanted to share a bit of what my experience has been like...as a healthy 33 year old.

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

Amazing leadership shown by @NYGovCuomo

[Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo]

We are facing a generation-defining challenge.

But America is America because of our ability to overcome adversity and challenges.

Together we will get through this and come out even stronger. #NewYorkTough

[Cheyney McKnight @MommasHistory]

#NewProfilePic

[Michael W. Twitty @KosherSoul]

A great way to honor 2019, the 400th anniversary of African arrival at Jamestown,Virginia. A large portion of my sales go to support people who otherwise could not afford to go on our trips to West Africa. Buy at your local book dealer, B&N, Amazon or Audible. Make this viral!