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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 28m

#tdih 1965 U.S. president halted enforcement of Civil Rights Act in Chicago. Fed funds restored to Chicago BoE after Daley confronted LBJ. They'd been withheld for racist school segregation. Democrats exempted the North.

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Oct. 8, 1965: Enforcement of Civil Rights Act Curtailed in Chicago Schools

Federal funds were quickly restored to Chicago public schools after they were withheld for continued segregation in schools, effectively curtailing enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in Chicago.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so looking forward to this conversation on KING OF THE NORTH with the great @sifill.bsky.social with @zinnedproject.bsky.social & @jessehagopian.bsky.social on Monday October 27 at 7:00 EST. All are welcome to tune in: www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

King of the North: Part Two

Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South in conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill. This session is part of the...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 7d

So honored that the great @sifill.bsky.social highlighted how much she loved KING OF THE NORTH and the ways it shows us whole dimensions of Martin and Coretta Scott King’s work that had been buried.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 5d

Starting soon online: the Schomburg's Conversation in Black Freedom Studies on Black Freedom, Black Arts, Space and Performance: www.youtube.com/live/Q_Y_8Le...

CBFS: Black Arts, Black Spaces and Black Performance

YouTube video by Schomburg Center

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 7d

So honored that the great @sifill.bsky.social highlighted how much she loved KING OF THE NORTH and the ways it shows us whole dimensions of Martin and Coretta Scott King’s work that had been buried.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 8d

This Thursday October 2, the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies returns online at 6:30 EST for an important conversation on the role of Black Arts and Performance in the Black Freedom struggle. Tune in here! youtube.com/live/Q_Y_8Le...

CBFS: Black Arts, Black Spaces and Black Performance

YouTube video by Schomburg Center

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 9d

It was such a gift to be at Ebenezer Baptist Church with Rev. Warnock and get to talk about King of the North and the lessons looking at Dr. King's work outside the South, including his investment and belief in the leadership potential of gang members.

The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social · 13d

In @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social new work, KING OF THE NORTH, she shows Dr. King's life, legacy, and relationships in a new light. Here she is at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, discussing his gift for listening.

Book available here:
thenewpress.org/books/king-o...

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Courtney Thorsson @courtneythorsson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, Jo-Ann Morgan, and me 5:30 on 10/2 for our conversation "Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance." This is the second event in0 the Schomburg Center's 13th season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies.

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Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance

In this virtual event on the spatiality of Black arts and performance, Julius B. Fleming Jr. will share his work on performance and the Civil Rights Movement. Jo-Ann Morgan will discuss the relationsh...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10d

A shameful fact which tells its own story.

Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 10d

A majority of US children rely on Medicaid or CHIP, new study finds | via Nada Hassanein #ksleg

A majority of US children rely on Medicaid or CHIP, new study finds • Kansas Reflector

A majority of children in the United States rely on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program at some point by their 18th birthday, and many experience periods of coverage loss, according to...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

Appalling, appalling video. I genuinely think the NYPD should investigate for assault. There was no call at all for level of violence. She perhaps brushed him with her hands but she was not posing a threat at all.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social · 13d

In @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social new work, KING OF THE NORTH, she shows Dr. King's life, legacy, and relationships in a new light. Here she is at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, discussing his gift for listening.

Book available here:
thenewpress.org/books/king-o...

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 14d

Join us next Thursday October 2nd at 6:30 online for a conversation with Jo-Ann Morgan, Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, and Courtney Thorsson for a conversation on Black Arts and the Black freedom struggle: www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-black...

CBFS: Black Arts, Black Spaces and Black Performance

Discussion on ties between the Black Panther Party's visual culture and the Black Arts Movement.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 17d

@jamellebouie.net, that's true. Yet, most books on MLK Southernize him & miss whole swaths of his politics. They hew to the white media story that he discovers the North after Watts —which is simply not true. That's why I spent years writing this. There's a lot that we don't understand about King.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17d

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up.

The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*.

Read the termination letter for yourself.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19d

A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats.
So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America.
My latest in @thenation.com
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Threatening Vulnerable People Is No Way to Mourn Someone Who Was Murdered

Those who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menaced—just like always.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 23d

Hi @washingtonpost.com, I had kept my subscription this past year in part to support the great journalists and columnists you still had writing for the paper. Firing @karenattiah.bsky.social for speaking the truth is the last straw. My subscription is now cancelled.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 23d

Dr. King underlined, "We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice." Towards the end of his life, he put it starkly,“I have more in common with these young people than with anybody else in the movement...It’s the system that’s the problem and it’s choking the breath out of our lives.”

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 23d

What a gift to be invited by Rev. Warnock to Ebenezer and get to share KING OF THE NORTH during church! Martin & Coretta Scott King were political partners, MLK clocked 6 million miles traveling to support movements across the US & and spent hundreds of hours working and talking with gang members.

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Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice @kairoscenter.org · 29d

✨ We Pray Freedom is out now—prayers + rituals for justice + liberation.
👉 bit.ly/WePrayFreedom
These aren’t just prayers—they’re blueprints for liberation.

#WePrayFreedom #WeSingFreedom #LiturgiesOfLiberation

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 28d

A photo of white people protesting the 100th birthday celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois held at Carnegie Hall, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech honoring Du Bois and defended his communism. Printed in the U.S. Anti-fascism Reader.

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.)

Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April.

But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.”

According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · Sep 8

So honored to be going to Ebenezer Baptist Church
Sunday to worship with Reverend @warnock.senate.gov
and talk about King of the North and Dr. King's long challenge to segregation and police brutality outside the South & his political partner and antiwar activist wife Coretta Scott King.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · Sep 6

Governor Pritzker isn’t playing— salt trucks form a blockade to block ICE — time to melt

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