Max Lewontin

Writer, historical researcher

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

[Black Perspectives @BlkPerspectives]

👉🏾 As part of the “Urban Rebellions in the 1960s” forum, Marissa Spear (@marissaspear71) writes, “Baltimore Panther women understood the militancy necessary to defend the Party’s survival programs.” Read more at @BlkPerspectives: https://t.co/NNvYdRnwWe @AAIHS

[AAIHS @AAIHS]

📚Black Perspectives (@BlkPerspectives) is hosting an online forum on the activism of Black women throughout the African Diaspora. Scholars discuss how Black women engaged in political and social activism to advocate for the lives of African descendants.

https://t.co/3qaqXIFTns

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.

[Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW) @NorthwesternGW]

The Arch has never looked so good! #MarchForFairFunding #NUPayYourWorkers #unionpower

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

Historians/Black Studies Scholars -

I'm working up a course on the history of Black Women's activism in the US.

What should we read?

Please retweet widely.

[Ashley D. Farmer @drashleyfarmer]

Part of Ye's "genius" is his ability to manipulate Black Power phrases, principles, & people over beats. He uses movement iconography to gain Black legitimacy while serving white supremacy. In @harpersbazaarus I talk about how he does this & how his mama taught him better!

[BU Grad Workers @gradworkersofBU]

1/ Earlier this week at Boston University (@BU_Tweets), in a required class for 1st year Phd students, the class was lectured for an hour on why they as graduate workers did not deserve a living wage. This has never before been a standard part of the syllabus in this class.

[Civil_War_MBTA @MbtaWar]

Brother,
Hope is forever elusive. I soddenly write from the riverbank. Our @MBTA #orangeline train has caught fire. Windows were shattered. We jumped in the river to escape. Tell mother and father I will not be home for supper.

[🦋🌸Gimme the Lute🌸🦋 סלע @moontwerk]

As I explore the archives, there’s an interesting trend I’m finding in radical/oppositional/Black power publications from the 60s/70s: testimonies from incarcerated people about working with “revolutionary lawyers.” Here’s an example: 1/

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Australien Government has made an ad about the new media legislation it just passed, and it's surprisingly honest and informative!

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

.@jbouie on Alabama's Black labor radical tradition
https://t.co/xKn0TNaGGG

[Black Perspectives @BlkPerspectives]

In today's post on @BlkPerspectives, Lloyd Belton (@Lloyd_Belton) offers, "A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S." -- https://t.co/ONqQwJAZac @AAIHS

[Northwestern University Graduate Workers (NUGW) @NorthwesternGW]

🚨 NEW NUGW LETTER + PETITION JUST DROPPED 👀 https://t.co/Ax2A1bvEL7

[THREAD]

[Max Lewontin @maxlewontin]

@HologramHeather More of a comment than a question, but I absolutely agree.

[Jeanne Theoharis @JeanneTheoharis]

On this King holiday, one of the greatest distortions of Dr. King's legacy in recent years has been how people try to use King to chastise Black Lives Matter--erasing King's long history calling out police brutality North & South and his challenge Northern liberals. A thread:

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Union-busting via the courts is unbecoming of a leading public institution with a rich history of labor organizing. This is shameful.

I stand with @geo3550 and the mass student, faculty, & staff movement to demand safe working and living environments at U-M. #StrikeForSafeCampus

[Max Lewontin @maxlewontin]

@ScrewyDecimal So if my sawmill worker-turned-librarian Dad starts modeling, have we completed the circle of life?