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Hand dance has been the official dance of Washington, D.C., for decades. @51stNews takes a look at its history and how the community is keeping it alive.
Hand dance has been the official dance of Washington, D.C., for decades. @51stNews takes a look at its history and how the community is keeping it alive.
In Never Caught, historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals that George Washington bypassed Pennsylvania's Gradual Abolition Act—which required freeing slaves after six months of residency—by rotating his household slaves out of the state before the deadline, often sending them back to Mount Vernon to "reset the clock".
This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City
“Whatever hand pulled the trigger did not buy the bullet.”
https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-malcolm-x-was-assassinated-in-new-york-city/
In Never Caught, historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals that George Washington bypassed Pennsylvania's Gradual Abolition Act—which required freeing slaves after six months of residency—by rotating his household slaves out of the state before the deadline, often sending them back to Mount Vernon to "reset the clock".
This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City
“Whatever hand pulled the trigger did not buy the bullet.”
https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-malcolm-x-was-assassinated-in-new-york-city/
#OnThisDay in 1960: The Woolworth's sit-in protest against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Not the first, but the start of a snowball. 4 fed-up students who decided to do something about it.
66 years later, we are seeing segregation roaring back (in many ways it never really left). This isn't just USpol, the international anti-immigrant trend is strongly based in racism. What are you deciding to do about it?
#ClaudetteColvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus 9 months before Rosa Parks made history, has died at 86.
#CivilRights #UShistory
https://apnews.com/article/claudette-colvin-died-a447e8e70f0decf2463565241179d11f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-13-Civil+rights+pioneer
#ClaudetteColvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus 9 months before Rosa Parks made history, has died at 86.
#CivilRights #UShistory
https://apnews.com/article/claudette-colvin-died-a447e8e70f0decf2463565241179d11f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-13-Civil+rights+pioneer
The #NationalPortraitGallery removed a swath of text that mentioned Trump’s 2 #impeachments & the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.
#Trump & the White House posted on social media Fri & Sat to highlight the updated portrait in the “America’s Presidents” exhibition, which now features a framed B&W photo by White House photographer Daniel Torok.
#UShistory #whitewashing #revisionism #censorship #propaganda #dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2026/01/10/national-portrait-gallery-trump-photo/
As U.S. Thanksgiving begins to wind down, here's a reminder from @TheConversationUS that communal celebrations of gratitude didn't begin with the Plymouth Pilgrims. "The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ 1620 landing and 1621 feast erased a great deal of religious history and narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America," writes Thomas Tweed, a professor emeritus of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame.
#History #USHistory #Thanksgiving #NativeAmericanHistory #Indigenous
Then this summer, they came upon items on land the #Rappahannock Tribe has been working to reclaim. The archaeologists are now revealing their discoveries of roughly 11,000 artifacts — some dating to the 1500s — ranging from tiny beads & shards of pottery with detailed markings to pieces of stone tools & pipes.
It was physical proof of the Rappahannock towns & villages that #JohnSmith had described.
#archeology #UShistory #NativeAmerican #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
#ViolaFletcher, who as a child in 1921 saw her affluent Black neighborhood torched by white citizens in what became known as the #TulsaRaceMassacre — one of the most violent acts of racial violence in #AmericanHistory — & who, a century later, testified in #Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning #reparations, has died. She was 111 & the oldest survivor of the attack.
#UShistory #BlackHistory #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/viola-fletcher-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
As U.S. Thanksgiving begins to wind down, here's a reminder from @TheConversationUS that communal celebrations of gratitude didn't begin with the Plymouth Pilgrims. "The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ 1620 landing and 1621 feast erased a great deal of religious history and narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America," writes Thomas Tweed, a professor emeritus of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame.
#History #USHistory #Thanksgiving #NativeAmericanHistory #Indigenous
…Fones Cliffs sits on the north side of the #Rappahannock River & is geologically unique because of its distinctive white diatomaceous earth—formed from fossilized remains of aquatic organisms from 5 million years ago when a shallow sea covered much of the area, acc/to Julia King, chair of the anthropology department at St. Mary’s College. #Wildlife experts said it’s a rare spot because its #wetlands are largely untouched & serve as an ideal habitat for bald eagles, fish & other animals.
The #Rappahannock tribe once lived in villages & towns in the lush region, long before English settlers arrived, said Richardson & tribal elders & historians. They grew corn, squash & beans, hunted deer & rabbits, & harvested berries & plants. At the tribe’s peak in the mid-to-late 1500s, its #land encompassed more than 350,000 acres along the river valley, & its population reached nearly 2,400.
#archeology #UShistory #NativeAmerican #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
Then this summer, they came upon items on land the #Rappahannock Tribe has been working to reclaim. The archaeologists are now revealing their discoveries of roughly 11,000 artifacts — some dating to the 1500s — ranging from tiny beads & shards of pottery with detailed markings to pieces of stone tools & pipes.
It was physical proof of the Rappahannock towns & villages that #JohnSmith had described.
#archeology #UShistory #NativeAmerican #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
“ #Indian people have long known of the #land & our #history & presence here,” said Anne Richardson, chief of the roughly 300-member #Rappahannock Tribe, which is primarily in King & Queen County. “But so often things aren’t considered ‘real’ until they’re found or ‘discovered.’ This validates what we’ve long known.”
#archeology #UShistory #NativeAmerican #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
Then this summer, they came upon items on land the #Rappahannock Tribe has been working to reclaim. The archaeologists are now revealing their discoveries of roughly 11,000 artifacts — some dating to the 1500s — ranging from tiny beads & shards of pottery with detailed markings to pieces of stone tools & pipes.
It was physical proof of the Rappahannock towns & villages that #JohnSmith had described.
#archeology #UShistory #NativeAmerican #genocide #NationalDayOfMourning
