A Yank in the UK. Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University (civil rights mov't, modern US, oral history). New book: James Lawson's expulsion from Vanderbilt Univ.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Joined April 2012
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Spent the last 3 nights glued to this book. Dr. Glenda Glover @ggloverpres with the receipts on how state lawmakers attacked her and TSU. It should serve as a wake up call for public HBCUs. A must read!
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My essay reflecting on the US 250th. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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Read more about the ideas behind our policy paper in History & Policy on our blog, The Lug:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history…
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Cambridge (UK) friends! I’ll be at the American History seminar on Monday May 18 talking from a new book project “Facing into the Wind: Hard Histories in Harder Times.” Jesus College at 16h with comment from Mia Bay.
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Remembering the conversation I had on @LeftOfBlack back in 2019 with @kehinde_andrews, whose work and institution building in #BlackStudies in the UK is under assault. We discussed his book 'Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century'
youtube.com/watch?v=08SzKfgz…
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"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK
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Metro's new Davidson County Historian is on a mission.
“If you have no knowledge of the past then something is fundamentally wrong ... The same is true for people, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and states.”
— Dr. Learotha Williams Jr.
wpln.org/post/5-lessons-from…
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Celebrating BHM by highlighting Black figures & next is Una Marson from Jamaica, the BBC’s 1st Black female full time broadcaster & producer for her show, Calling The West Indies in 1941. As a creative, her work made space to discuss the importance of Black women in society
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Bobby Cain, a member of the Clinton 12 who helped integrate Tennessee high schools in 1956, has died ow.ly/X8mT50X17NQ
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Joseph McNeil was one of four students who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.
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After weeks in the @BodleianLibraries archives last month @PeterBrathwaite visited the places in the papers—walking the land, meeting descendants, & confronting the living archive of his family's history.
For more of Peter's work, check out his website: peterbrathwaitebaritone.com/.
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It's not every day — and not many podcasts — that get named to TIME's 100 Best Podcasts of All Time. But the honor includes WPLN's The Promise by @meribah!
A series that examines what happens in Nashville when "a great idea meets reality."
time.com/collections/100-bes…
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Honored to see this roundtable on our book go live at @BlkPerspectives.
.@Blkperspectives is hosting an online roundtable on ‘From Rights To Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle’ edited by Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.. The roundtable begins on July 14, 2025 and concludes on July 18, 2025.
aaihs.org/online-roundtable-…
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Perry Anderson on the advantages enjoyed by the populisms of the right over those of the left on the immigration issue. But I think he omits that populisms of the right, unserious about economic inequality, are in bed with oligarchy. A vulnerability that needs to be hammered.
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Nashville's iconic Music Row comes to life with our newly unveiled oral history collection. axios.com/local/nashville/20…
