Portland Press Herald: Brick Store Museum launches Just History Project. “The Just History Project website, an initiative aimed at uncovering and documenting the often-overlooked histories of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in Kennebunk and the surrounding towns of Wells, Kennebunkport and Arundel, has been launched by the Brick Store Museum.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/portland-press-herald-brick-store-museum-launches-just-history-project/

Center for Data Innovation: Studying American Sundown Towns . “Researchers at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, and Duke University have compiled a dataset that aggregates historical records on sundown towns in the United States, which are counties and cities that once had enacted laws or practices to restrict the movement of racial minorities, mainly African […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/17/center-for-data-innovation-studying-american-sundown-towns/

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Collaborative project aims to digitize Malone Center archives. “A new collaborative project aims to recover the lost stories of Lincoln’s Clyde Malone Community Center and the neighborhood it has supported since 1932. With $235,196 in grant funding from the Council of Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/12/university-of-nebraska-lincoln-collaborative-project-aims-to-digitize-malone-center-archives/

Song of the Day April 20 2023

In honor of the birth of George Takei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei

@georgetakei

George Takei - From his TED Talk - "Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me"

https://youtu.be/LeBKBFAPwNc

Sometimes, when I’m sad, I just think about the funny, ironic, and unfortunate name of the US Postal Inspector & anti vice activist whose namesake is a bunch of anti porn laws in 1873….. you just know he was anti sex because he was bullied in school for that damn name. #history #ushistory #unitedstateshistory

"We must be concerned not merely about who murdered him but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#BlackHistoryMonth #UnitedStatesHistory #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/18

#BlackHistoryMonth #UnitedStatesHistory

White North Carolina Man Offers Reward for Capture of Enslaved Black Man Who “Escaped” to Visit His Wife

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/11

Downloaded Discord. Not keen on Civil War RP games .
Anyone able to recommend servers for US history/studies, African American history/studies, Black diaspora history/studies, Australian studies?
Boost away, please!

#UnitedStatesHistory
#BlackHistory
#AfAmHistory
#AfAmStudies
#Academia
#AfricanAmericanHistory
#AfricanAmericanStudies
#OzHist