Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD
@learothawms.bsky.social
Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper
Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
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“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
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More than inspiration, writing a book requires discipline.
There are days I feel highly driven, only to get nowhere. Similarly, there are mornings I feel off, yet end up making massive leaps.
If you want progress, don’t trust your feelings.
Trust discipline ✍️
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
There are days I feel highly driven, only to get nowhere. Similarly, there are mornings I feel off, yet end up making massive leaps.
If you want progress, don’t trust your feelings.
Trust discipline ✍️
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
More than inspiration, writing a book requires discipline.
There are days I feel highly driven, only to get nowhere. Similarly, there are mornings I feel off, yet end up making massive leaps.
If you want progress, don’t trust your feelings.
Trust discipline ✍️
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
There are days I feel highly driven, only to get nowhere. Similarly, there are mornings I feel off, yet end up making massive leaps.
If you want progress, don’t trust your feelings.
Trust discipline ✍️
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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The Harder They Come (1972) is on Pluto TV (free with commercials) and Kanopy (free with library card) to stream. (It’s also in The Criterion Collection).
RIP Jimmy Cliff🥀🇯🇲
RIP Jimmy Cliff🥀🇯🇲
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Harder They Come (1972) is on Pluto TV (free with commercials) and Kanopy (free with library card) to stream. (It’s also in The Criterion Collection).
RIP Jimmy Cliff🥀🇯🇲
RIP Jimmy Cliff🥀🇯🇲
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Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) US street photographer whose work was discovered after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people of Chicago & New York #WomensArt
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) US street photographer whose work was discovered after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people of Chicago & New York #WomensArt
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Sunrise and Surfers at Sullivan Island SC. 1/2
#Lowcountry
#Lowcountry
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Sunrise and Surfers at Sullivan Island SC. 1/2
#Lowcountry
#Lowcountry
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Sunday Morning special with BLACK WHITE AND READ for Scholar Sunday. #BookSky
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Sunday Morning special with BLACK WHITE AND READ for Scholar Sunday. #BookSky
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Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
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Keeping Colorado's African American History Alive with Dearfield www.uncmirror.com/article/2025... Dearfield was one of many African American settlements in Colorado and across the United States. It was first founded in 1910 by a man named Oliver Toussaint Jackson, who also went by O.T. Jackson.
Keeping Colorado's African American History Alive with Dearfield
Dearfield was an African American settlement that remains integral to Colorado's history. UNC professor George Junne is leading the presevation efforts of this historic site.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Keeping Colorado's African American History Alive with Dearfield www.uncmirror.com/article/2025... Dearfield was one of many African American settlements in Colorado and across the United States. It was first founded in 1910 by a man named Oliver Toussaint Jackson, who also went by O.T. Jackson.
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Supposedly the VUP sale code is already working. If you want 50% off Vanderbilt books for the holidays, just use the code HOLIDAYS50. And then let me know if it works, please.
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Supposedly the VUP sale code is already working. If you want 50% off Vanderbilt books for the holidays, just use the code HOLIDAYS50. And then let me know if it works, please.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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In these Nashville Streets. Autumn leaves near the Frist Art Museum. 🍁
#Nashville
#autumn
#photography
#streetphotography
#Nashville
#autumn
#photography
#streetphotography
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
In these Nashville Streets. Autumn leaves near the Frist Art Museum. 🍁
#Nashville
#autumn
#photography
#streetphotography
#Nashville
#autumn
#photography
#streetphotography
Staring into the silence and admiring how tonight’s moon sits like a bright scratch in night sky. 🌘
#moonoverhermitage
#astrophotography
#moonshot
#moonthoughts
#moonoverhermitage
#astrophotography
#moonshot
#moonthoughts
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Staring into the silence and admiring how tonight’s moon sits like a bright scratch in night sky. 🌘
#moonoverhermitage
#astrophotography
#moonshot
#moonthoughts
#moonoverhermitage
#astrophotography
#moonshot
#moonthoughts
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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🙌 I welcome you to visit my second virtual exhibition.
The artworks are not for sale (yet), but if you do see one that you want to hang as an actual physical print in your hallway for example, do get in touch and I will arrange it for you.
Enjoy!
#KeraDamo #Art #ArtSky #VR #Painting
The artworks are not for sale (yet), but if you do see one that you want to hang as an actual physical print in your hallway for example, do get in touch and I will arrange it for you.
Enjoy!
#KeraDamo #Art #ArtSky #VR #Painting
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#ThrowBackThursday
In 1966, my dissertation advisor came to Fisk University to learn how to teach Black History. His time there led to the publication of this excellent history. 1/4
#Reconstruction
#Booksky
In 1966, my dissertation advisor came to Fisk University to learn how to teach Black History. His time there led to the publication of this excellent history. 1/4
#Reconstruction
#Booksky
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#ThrowBackThursday
In 1966, my dissertation advisor came to Fisk University to learn how to teach Black History. His time there led to the publication of this excellent history. 1/4
#Reconstruction
#Booksky
In 1966, my dissertation advisor came to Fisk University to learn how to teach Black History. His time there led to the publication of this excellent history. 1/4
#Reconstruction
#Booksky
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'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
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**Squints at this NYT headline** If the National Center for Human and Civil Rights is continuing to tell the ACCURATE truth about the past, why characterize it as “messy?” 🧐 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...
As Trump Recasts History, a Civil Rights Museum Sticks to a Messy Past
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
**Squints at this NYT headline** If the National Center for Human and Civil Rights is continuing to tell the ACCURATE truth about the past, why characterize it as “messy?” 🧐 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/a...
Scenes from yesterday’s visit to Promise Land TN 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Scenes from yesterday’s visit to Promise Land TN 1/2