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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD
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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

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Also Sullivan’s Island
#BlackHistory
#TeachHistory
question led me to colonial South Carolina. Black persons were present in the South Carolina colony from the year of its founding, and by the second generation they constituted a majority of the population. Here was a thin neck in the hourglass of the Afro-American past, a place where individual grains from all along the West African coast had been funneled together, only to be fanned out across the American landscape with the passage of time. Sullivan's Island, the sandy
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I knew they were both HU alums. Didn’t know they were at Howard at the same time.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Now Playing. John Coltrane. A Love Supreme. Resolution.

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A Love Supreme, Pt.. II - Resolution (Take 4 / Alternate) by John Coltrane Quartet on Apple Music
Song · 1965 · Duration 7:25
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November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Now Playing on the #QuarantineDeck Delfeayo Marsalis. Tin Roof Blues. 3/3
#BrownLikkuhJazz

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Tin Roof Blues by Delfeayo Marsalis on Apple Music
Song · 2017 · Duration 9:40
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November 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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…and the sky winked at me. 2/3
#moonoverhermitage
#moonshot
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM