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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · Jan 15

Sunsets and silhouettes. Dakar, Senegal.
#photography📷
#landscape #seascapes #sunsets #senegal

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you!🙏🏾

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 8h

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6 Works to Know by Faith Ringgold: How the Artist Fights Racism and Inspires Hope

Faith Ringgold has been fighting racism and inspiring joy in her art for decades. See six works to know by the artist.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 8h

I am grateful for his work and honored that some of our lynching research from Nashville is featured in the memorials in Montgomery. It is hard but very necessary work.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 9h

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 2d

Even though the wind and rain has had their way with them, my Peppermint roses are hanging in there!
#roses
#flowersky

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 3d

TMW I spot a recently published work in an art exhibit that features some of Nashville’s most 🔥🔥🔥 artists. ☺️🧵
#PromiseLand
#artmuseum
#art
#booksky

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 4d

🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏾‍♂️

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 5d

Support Memphis Library Workers!

Library workers are essential employees for Memphis and Shelby County. They provide an array of services and they serve a majority of underserved communities.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 5d

Now Playing. John Coltrane. I’m Old Fashioned.

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I'm Old Fashioned by John Coltrane on Apple Music

Song · 1958 · Duration 7:57

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 5d

Goodnight Moon…
#moonoverhermitage
#nightsky
#astrophotography
🧵

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not sure if this is the face eating leopard but I bet he would if given the opportunity.
#nashvillezoo

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 6d

So happy to see this.

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Georgia's highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community

Georgia's highest court is siding with Black landowners in a zoning dispute affecting a historic Gullah-Geechee community.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 6d

Now playing. Miles Davis. Générique. 🎺

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Générique (BOF

Song · 1958 · Duration 2:48

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 6d

Playing hide and seek with the 🌖#MoonOverHermitage. 🧵
#astrophotography
#moonshot
#moonlightandsilhouettes

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Sean Parker @seanforfive.bsky.social · 6d

You should be getting @nashvillebanner.bsky.social and @citycastnash.bsky.social in your inbox every morning.

Also Axios Nashville which does not appear to be on bsky?

Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 16d

Hey followers, this is Steve Cavendish, Editor here at the Banner. Over the next two weeks, we have a goal to add 400 subscribers to our free daily newsletter. We need your help. Sign up below for access to our reporting even before it hits your feed, and spread the ... news.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 6d

The entire city is literally a museum of Black Architecture. I learned a lot working on this tour.

Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 6d

For fans of architecture, did you know that Nashville, TN has SO MUCH Black architecture that there's an entire driving tour you can take to see the 9 most prominent buildings? Written by our own @learothawms.bsky.social it is FREE on Nashville Sites.
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Nashville Sites

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 6d

I got it.

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 6d

Millions of veterans got this email from the official VA account with a blatant political smear and lie about the government shutdown yesterday. This is a massive violation of the law and federal regulations using our government resources for political actions.

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 7d

Woohoo! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 7d

Now Playing: Corinne Bailey Rae. Like a Star.

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Like a Star by Corinne Bailey Rae on Apple Music

Song · 2005 · Duration 4:03

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 7d

“Night coming tenderly
Black like me.”
-Langston Hughes
🧵
#MoonOverHermitage
#Astrophotography
#moonshot
#Poetry

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking about Henry and Eph Grizzard as I walked past his lynching marker this AM.

During the 1930s, a woman from #northnashville told us about that day.
#teachhistory
#NashvilleHistorySky

I remember the time when Eph Grizzard was hung over the bridge.

That time they had what they called a "dummy" running from here to East Nashville. Run right down by the jail. Eph was in the jail.

They had a black mother-hubbard on him to tell him from the rest of the prisoners. They took him out of jail and went running up First Avenue to the bridge, and tied the rope around his neck and threw him over. It was about three o'clock. He hung there from three until about six o'clock.
They would take a hold of that rope every once in a while and give it a yank.

The sheriff of Goodletsville got up on the bridge and made a speech and said, "If anybody, rich or poor, black or white, grizzly or gray, get up and say anything in this nigger's behalf we will take them and do them the same way." Five or six men was killed trying to get to the jail to get Eph out. I was working down on the wharf at Broad this side of the Tennessee Central station.

My heart ached within me. I looked to see that bridge fall in there was so many people on it that day. I heard that woman had a child afterwards, butl don't know. They killed him and burned him up.

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 8d

This!
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 8d

I’d love it if you read my op-ed about AI and why its harms should matter to you.

newsoneofficial.bsky.social @newsoneofficial.bsky.social · 8d

[COMMENTARY] The harms to marginalized communities caused by AI are palpable, yet they don’t always resonate with everyday people, thanks in part to messaging that paints it as useful and necessary.

https://bit.ly/4gOmM9W

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 8d

Chatting with and supporting local farmers at the Nashville Farmers’ Market.
#foodsky
#farmersmarketsky
#veggies🍆🥔🥗🥦🥒🥕🌽

Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 9d

Now Playing: Stevie Wonder. They Won’t Go When I Go.

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They Won't Go When I Go by Stevie Wonder on Apple Music

Song · 1974 · Duration 5:59

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