LawProf. Historian of prisons and slavery in the US. JD, PhD, if you're into that. Co-author of #LivingWhileBlack: Blackness as Nuisance, https://xitter.gq/t.co/cGqHVZZbO1
Joined February 2019
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Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
We ran from John Council’s plantation in Bladen County, NC, east of the Cape Fear River, on the night of Sept. 4, 1863. He started advertising for us, dead or alive, when he didn’t find us after a week. We may have headed to the Union forces at New Bern. Our names are UNKNOWN.
ALT $600 REWARD. DESERRETTE P. O., Bladen County, N. C. RUNAWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBER, on Saturday night last, six NEGRO MEN, who are supposed to me making their way to the Yankees. I offer one hundred dollars each, dead or alive. JOHN T. COUNCIL. Sept. 12. 6-4t*
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
Much conversation this morning about the important contributions of Walter Johnson’s Soul by Soul at 25 years, but particularly grateful that Rashauna Johnson pointed out the beauty of its writing. For me, that’s the part of the book that really sticks. #shear2024
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
Knees deep in a thread of people in a Facebook group I am not a part of, having a discussion, trying to figure out if **I** am going to join the neighborhood country club or not, debating if I will even be allowed in because of the color of my skin 🥴
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
New law signed:
Medicaid now covers doula services for New Yorkers.
There will be a statewide directory of doulas as well.
This legislation was introduced by Sen. Brouk due to high maternal mortality rates, especially among Black women.
ALT New York Medicaid recipients now have access to doulas, in statewide effort to improve maternal health
ALT Samra Brouk
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
The national incarceration rate of Black people is 6x the rate of white people and more than twice the rate in every single state.
It’s time for the US to end racial injustice in the carceral system and beyond.
ALT A graph showing the racial disparities in prison incarceration rates; the national incarceration rate of Black people is six times the rate of white people and more than twice the rate in every single state.
"New"?
A new investigative report reveals that while the federal government did grant land to the formerly enslaved after the Civil War, it also took that land back and returned it to white southerners.
@IAmAmnaNawaz speaks to @AlexiaCampbell to learn more.
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
On this day in 1918, a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, lynched Mary Turner, a Black woman who was 8 months pregnant, for speaking out against the lynching of her husband the day before. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
#tdih 1970 Kent State, National Guard shot unarmed college students: protesting U.S. bombing of Cambodia & passing by. Killed 4, wounded 9.
Also remember massacres at
- Orangeburg (2/8/1968) &
- Jackson State (5/15/1970)
Study & teach ALL three. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/…
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
“It is a level of repression of campuses in the United States that I have not seen in my lifetime."
Dartmouth labor historian @AnneliseOrleck1 talks about her violent arrest--and what the 54th anniversary of Kent State feels like at US universities:
theguardian.com/us-news/arti…
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
This remarkable photograph shows the then-oldest living ex-enslaved individual, Mrs. Sally Fickland, viewing the Emancipation Proclamation in the Freedom Train at Philadelphia, on September 17, 1947.
#ArchivesSnapshot
ALT Mrs. Sally Fickland, viewing the Emancipation Proclamation in the Freedom Train at Philadelphia, on September 17, 1947.
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
Newly freed formerly enslaved people were eager to build networks of learning, commerce, and politics during Reconstruction immediately following the American Civil War
Thulani Davis's The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
youtube.com/watch?v=FugIgkqm…
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1877, John Phillip—who went to Texas with General Burger—wanted to find his brother and three sisters. Their reconnection is presumably his dying wish.
#lastseenproject #BlackHistory #BlackGenealogy #CivilWarHistory #DigitalHistory #DigitalGenealog @NHPRC
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
On this day in 1886, a white mob killed 23 Black people in the audience of the trial of a white man accused of assaulting two brothers who were Black. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1867, Mrs. Mary Dickerson searched for her children “who were sold in Virginia in 1852,” as well as her sister. At the end, she specifically asks Southern ministers to spread her call.
#lastseenproject #BlackHistory #BlackGenealogy #DigitalHistory @NHPRC
Taja-Nia Henderson retweeted
Schools have a period problem, and Black and Latina Chicago teens aren’t having it. Reckon's @annabelrocha93 introduces us to teens tired of hiding their periods. They’re taking on schools, cultural norms, and outdated policies to demand change #IWD reckon.news/news/2024/03/sch…
