Valencia Abbott
@vannabbott.bsky.social
High School Social Studies Teacher, Local Historian, Photographer, Telling Black Stories is my passion and side hustle. Black Folks Education Ambassador (accept the moniker).
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fine to oppose the concept of canon for all kinds of reasons, but, pragmatically and understandably, plenty of educators and parents like authoritative lists
Staff at Alice Deal Middle School made the decision this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum.
It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."
It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."
Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels
Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.
51st.news
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
fine to oppose the concept of canon for all kinds of reasons, but, pragmatically and understandably, plenty of educators and parents like authoritative lists
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#tdih 1874 Vicksburg Massacre 💔
Whites attacked Black citizens who had organized to defend Peter Crosby.
Formerly enslaved and a Union army veteran, Crosby had been forced to resign from his elected role as sheriff. #TeachTruth #TeachReconstruction
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...
Whites attacked Black citizens who had organized to defend Peter Crosby.
Formerly enslaved and a Union army veteran, Crosby had been forced to resign from his elected role as sheriff. #TeachTruth #TeachReconstruction
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...
Dec. 7, 1874: Vicksburg Massacre
White people attacked and killed many Black citizens who had organized for a Black sheriff to remain in office during the Vicksburg Massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#tdih 1874 Vicksburg Massacre 💔
Whites attacked Black citizens who had organized to defend Peter Crosby.
Formerly enslaved and a Union army veteran, Crosby had been forced to resign from his elected role as sheriff. #TeachTruth #TeachReconstruction
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...
Whites attacked Black citizens who had organized to defend Peter Crosby.
Formerly enslaved and a Union army veteran, Crosby had been forced to resign from his elected role as sheriff. #TeachTruth #TeachReconstruction
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vi...
Being recognized at the NC State Board of Education, honored to be the first North Carolina teacher to do so #NCHTOY #NHTOY #HistoryNerdsUnite
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Being recognized at the NC State Board of Education, honored to be the first North Carolina teacher to do so #NCHTOY #NHTOY #HistoryNerdsUnite
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
🎶🚗 Help Me Build a Road-Trip Playlist! 🚗🎶
I’m working on my presentation “Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival,” but the songs don’t have to match the theme.
What song gets YOU through a road trip?
Drop your go-to road-trip tracks below! 🎵👇🏾
I’m working on my presentation “Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival,” but the songs don’t have to match the theme.
What song gets YOU through a road trip?
Drop your go-to road-trip tracks below! 🎵👇🏾
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
🎶🚗 Help Me Build a Road-Trip Playlist! 🚗🎶
I’m working on my presentation “Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival,” but the songs don’t have to match the theme.
What song gets YOU through a road trip?
Drop your go-to road-trip tracks below! 🎵👇🏾
I’m working on my presentation “Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival,” but the songs don’t have to match the theme.
What song gets YOU through a road trip?
Drop your go-to road-trip tracks below! 🎵👇🏾
✨ I’m excited to share the full recording of the 2025 National History Teacher of the Year Ceremony!
Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey and continues to champion meaningful, inclusive history education. youtu.be/84EmKsaCTxA?...
Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey and continues to champion meaningful, inclusive history education. youtu.be/84EmKsaCTxA?...
2025 National History Teacher of the Year Award Ceremony
YouTube video by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
✨ I’m excited to share the full recording of the 2025 National History Teacher of the Year Ceremony!
Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey and continues to champion meaningful, inclusive history education. youtu.be/84EmKsaCTxA?...
Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey and continues to champion meaningful, inclusive history education. youtu.be/84EmKsaCTxA?...
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'The growing popularity of Korean fried chicken reflects a greater familiarity with Korean culture. But its origins can be traced to an American cookbook dating back to when African American soldiers fought in the Korean War.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsup...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsup...
Korean fried chicken: The other KFC
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
'The growing popularity of Korean fried chicken reflects a greater familiarity with Korean culture. But its origins can be traced to an American cookbook dating back to when African American soldiers fought in the Korean War.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsup...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsup...
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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Y'all, It's TOMORROW.
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Y'all, It's TOMORROW.
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
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Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
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I’ll be at #NCSS2025 and I’d love to see you there! Will you also attend?
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I’ll be at #NCSS2025 and I’d love to see you there! Will you also attend?
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
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This looks great!💥
Save 30% on "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, which examines the labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. #Labor buff.ly/slifuV3
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This looks great!💥
Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
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Really want to know more about this lecture the Reverend W. S. Carpenter delivered in Philadelphia in 1920, entitled "Sambo is Dead." The good Reverend looking absolutely fierce here
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Really want to know more about this lecture the Reverend W. S. Carpenter delivered in Philadelphia in 1920, entitled "Sambo is Dead." The good Reverend looking absolutely fierce here
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"Historians estimate that Brazil alone imported approximately 4.8M enslaved men, women and children, representing nearly half of the 10.5M enslaved Africans who disembarked alive in the Americas between 1501 and 1866.
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Historians estimate that Brazil alone imported approximately 4.8M enslaved men, women and children, representing nearly half of the 10.5M enslaved Africans who disembarked alive in the Americas between 1501 and 1866.
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
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In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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Happy #VeteransDay! This World War I photo of African American soldiers is a new acquisition from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC10206). It was taken in front of the Grant Theater at Camp Saint-Sulpice, located near Bordeaux, France.
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Happy #VeteransDay! This World War I photo of African American soldiers is a new acquisition from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC10206). It was taken in front of the Grant Theater at Camp Saint-Sulpice, located near Bordeaux, France.
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
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Tochi Onyebuchi's amazing essay collection, out now on my imprint, is NPR's book of the day!!!! www.npr.org/2025/11/11/n...
Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online : NPR's Book of the Day
Tochi Onyebuchi remembers when the internet was fun. The science fiction and fantasy author says he initially existed online as a “skinless, raceless entity” until he experienced a shift around 2012. ...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tochi Onyebuchi's amazing essay collection, out now on my imprint, is NPR's book of the day!!!! www.npr.org/2025/11/11/n...