#Luther

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

After a racist man assassinated Dr King in 1968, there was an immediate push to designate a holiday for the civil rights leader.It failed. Again and again.This is a story

nilus

nilus110

The African-American History Museum comes goodI remember expressing concern about the future of the African-American History Museum when it was opened (at Whitey's expense) back in 2016. One of its

Dave Lee

heydave7

Investing is very counter-cultural in its nature since it’s about finding value where others don’t find value. Tough to be great at investing if your values and paradigm are indistinguishable

Tracie D. Hall

TracieDHall1

John Lewis was a friend to libraries and of @ALALibrary and always ready to speak or teach. His late wife Lillian had been a librarian at Atlanta U. when they

cptnwillie

cptnwillie

1/ Some of us have lived thru this-once before!1965 Selma Alabama voting rights march-1965 Watts Rebellion-1966 Hollywood Protests-1970 Kent State University Demonstrations-to mention-just a few. And each time-history has proven-that

Timothy Isaiah Cho

tisaiahcho

Did you know that John Calvin (yes, that John Calvin) believed that Matt. 18 was not universally applicable? In fact, he argued that Matt. 18 is specifically limited to interpersonal

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

To celebrate #MLKDay & the last Sunday of the Age of Trump, another #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work from the last week. Happy reading! #twitterstorians

Erik Gellman

ESG2424

This @nytimes obituary of @ctvivian covers much of his impactful activism but largely elides what Vivian considered was one of his most formative periods of democratic protest leadership: his Chicago

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

(artist: Daniel Rarela)1/n 2/n 3/n 4/n 5/n 6/n 7/n 8/n 9/n 10/n 11/n 12/n 13/n And an explanation of why artist Daniel Rarela made these posters. end/https://www.mic.com/articles/165598/artist-creates-letters-from-birmingham-jail-memes-to-s

Saket Gokhale

SaketGokhale

I write this with incredible sadness & disappointment. There’s a video circulating since 3 days calling for some of us (incl. journalists) to be hanged to death because we were

Katie Crosby

crosby_katie

This is a good question: I see a lot of responses to my tweet discussing jobs and calling, but the term is way broader than that. I actually like the

The New York Times

nytimes

Our reporter @sherifink and the photographer @IsadoraKosofsky spent over a week inside Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, one of the hardest-hit hospitals in the worst-hit part

Dilip Mandal

Profdilipmandal

Dear @meenaharris , Your claim of being Hindu is false and irreligious. According to Agama, Smritis and Shastras you have to have a caste to be a Hindu. Your grand

EHS

EcclesHistSoc

As well as Hallowe'en, today is also Reformation Day - commemorating the beginnings of the Reformation in 1517 - so today may be a good time to explore how the

Stephen Langtry

StephenLangtry

In 1961, a Coloured journalist, Joseph Louw, and Pamela Beira, a White woman, were arrested under the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, which banned sex between "Europeans" and Black people

Onsi A. Kamel

onsikamel

1199: Innocent III bans reading the Bible in private. 1200: Innocent III sends delegation to burn French vernacular translations.1229: Council of Toulouse banned Bible reading for all laypeople, whether in

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