Glenny Brock

BSC writing professor, crazy about the First Amendment. Most tweets here I aim at my students. @glennybrock is my stunt double.

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

And *possibly* my favorite #EH204 tweet of all time:

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Rhythm’ has two h’s and no vowels.

Just remember:

Rhythm
Helps
Your
Two
Hips
Move

Rhythm is also a dancer and a soul’s companion.

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

I don’t see much of #EH204 #EH205 #EH277 #EH204forever here, but I think of y’all all the time. A few days ago I wished we were all together drawing monsters. I also wanted to make you read aloud this tweet from my pal @etbowser:

[Edward Bowser @etbowser]

Once I started hearing journalists saying ‘this is what our audience wants to hear’ instead of ‘here’s what our community needs to know’ I knew the industry was in major trouble.

[Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff]

not saying things are tense, but all the characters from Les Miserables are gradually gathering out side my window to sing a song

[Michael Calderone @mlcalderone]

Election Day in America

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I've never received so many prayers from atheists.

[Theodore Kim @TheoTypes]

Budding Journalists: This is the center of @nytimes newsroom as of noon today, Election Day. If you're ever needing evidence of the significance of independent journalism in society, think of the essential work that so many have done up to now and will do in the coming days.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Indigenous' derives from the Latin noun 'indigena' which means "native."

'Indigena' was formed by combining 'indu' ("in" or "within") + 'gignere' ("to beget").

The first known use of 'indigenous' was in 1632.

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

@RoyPeterClark I’ve been thinking about you, RPC. Will you hunker down or head out?

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. and others from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference marched through Marquette Park in Chicago, protesting racial discrimination in housing. Chicago activist Al Raby had invited King and the SCLC to join them in their protest to urge fair housing for residents.

The marchers were met by about 700 white counter-protesters. More than 30 were injured in the hail of bricks, bottles and rocks. King was hit, too, in the melee.

Despite the attack, King continued to champion open housing in the North. He had even moved into a shabby Chicago apartment to bring attention to the inner-city plight.

After the attack, King told reporters, “I’ve been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I have never seen — even in Mississippi and Alabama — mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I’ve seen here in Chicago.”

The conflict and tension continued until Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley negotiated an agreement for fair housing which King termed “the most significant program ever conceived to make open housing a reality in a metropolitan area.”
https://t.co/q6ZFAx1sc7

[Natalie Fertig @natsfert]

Hi quick media literacy on breaking news — maybe it’s helpful rn.

If you see a variances in coverage, there are many reasons for that.

1) outlets have dif. standards for how to address speculation on crime scenes (ie what to say ocurred before law enforcement confirm) 🧵

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1963, hours after President John Kennedy told the nation that the grandchildren of those enslaved are “not yet freed from the bonds of injustice,” NAACP leader Medgar Evers was shot in the back as he stepped onto his own driveway in Jackson, Mississippi.
His wife, Myrlie Evers, heard the shot, ran outside, saw the blood and screamed. When the children heard the scream, they ran outside and saw their father. “Daddy, get up,” his 8-year-old daughter, Reena, said. “Daddy, get up.” He never did.
Protests followed, including a march of 5,000 people, including Martin Luther King Jr., after his funeral. Hundreds of Black Americans rushed to courthouses to register to vote, only to be arrested and jailed.
As for Evers’ assassin, Klansman Byron De La Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 with three police officers providing him an alibi and three lawyers working for him free of charge. (The white Citizens' Council paid the bill.) Each trial ended in a hung jury. In 1989, the case was reopened, and Beckwith was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2001.
https://t.co/rSbpmjMDR3

[Leah Doherty @LeahDohertyTV]

BSC players met with quite the crowd as they head to the bus

#d3baseball

[Jacob Stockman @JacobStockman1]

To say that BSC was a special place, is an understatement. Never knew the ride it would take me on when I got there as a coach in 2020, and would do it again in a heartbeat. Will forever tell stories of this school, these players, these coaches and this monumental program!

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

I am so proud of @BSCBaseball, especially my dudes @hmccown23 @cartertyus123 @MitchAusti96728 @jtweisbe @JacksonEH204BSC @graysonmEH207 & Zito.

Thanks, fellas, for everything.

[AL.com @aldotcom]

Birmingham-Southern baseball went out like champions. Forward, ever!

https://t.co/ZsBFc5MoI8

[BSC Athletics @BSCsports]

ICYMI last night 😤

@espn 🤝 @BSCBaseball

https://t.co/YbDn1w2YyN

[BSC Athletics @BSCsports]

Couldn’t write it better 🥹

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

Another highlight: @AlishabaSult1 about us riding a tandem bike even though neither of us can ride a regular bike. The very idea made @sophs_1140 laugh til she cried. #EH205

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

I used the term “racist f*ck” in class today. I sorta regret it. But not much.

[Glenny Brock @BSCglb]

RT x 10K!

[Lexa @lexab003]

#EH207

[Gabi Kaye @gabikaye16]

PIVOT 🛋️
#eh207