Joshua Clark Davis

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#Historian at the University of #Baltimore, currently writing a book on #police and the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Bylines with the Nation, Atlantic, Washington Post, and Jacobin.

Rest in peace to Casey Hayden, one of the few white Southerners in SNCC, a founding SDS member, and co-author w/ Mary King of the pioneering second-wave feminist text Sex and Caste.

Pictured is Hayden with Dorie Ladner in Selma, followed by the obituary Hayden wrote herself. #civilrights #feminism #antiwar #SNCC #SDS

Donalds is an election denier who thinks queer and trans Americans should be second-class citizens.

As usual, Republicans' desire to co-opt MLK's vision is virtually limitless.

First ever Oscar Best Picture in the public domain, as of yesterday #PublicDomain #oscars
Cast of characters includes various rappers, DJs and breakers from Queens, Baltimore, and LA, plus Moses Pelham, Herbie Hancock, Prince, Snap, and Milli Vanilli.
Happy to finally see this in print in Die Zeit--our piece on how Black GIs in the U.S. Army brought hip hop to West Germany in the '80s via Frankfurt's Funkadelic club, cowritten with Johannes Teschner. #hiphop #westgermany #funkadelic #frankfurt #coldwar https://www.zeit.de/2023/01/funkadelic-frankfurt-hip-hop-deutschland
Funkadelic in Frankfurt: Salto vom Tresen

Im Frankfurter Funkadelic standen afroamerikanische GIs an den Plattentellern. Vor 40 Jahren eröffnet, wurde die Diskothek zur Keimzelle des deutschen Hip-Hop.

ZEIT ONLINE
DeSantis aide used private email with alias “Clarice Starling” — in reference to Hannibal Lecter novels—to help client get state contract for migrant trafficking flights https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/12/27/keefe-migrant-flights-desantis-private-email-clarice-lawsuit/
DeSantis aide used private email in talks with ex-client over migrant flights contract

Larry Keefe, the governor’s public safety czar, used a private Gmail address that displayed his name as “Clarice Starling.”

Tampa Bay Times
There once was a far right conspiracy monger/tax resister named Tupper Saussy III who thought Dick Cheney and the Pope were behind 9/11. He also recorded these albums.
Wow, Maxi Jazz is dead at 65. Whether you loved it or hated it, Faithless’s Insomnia may have been the most original and influential UK rave track to crossover into pop in the ‘90s. #maxijazz #faithless https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/26/maxi-jazz-the-calm-eye-in-the-centre-of-faithlesss-rave-storm
Maxi Jazz: the calm eye in the centre of Faithless’s rave storm

Only Keith Flint and Maxim of the Prodigy rivalled Jazz in his command of the stage at the helm of a superstar 90s dance act – but there was more to him than his ability to energise a crowd

The Guardian
Abandoned theater with two large brass chandeliers

Statue of #HenriettaLacks to replace Robert E. Lee monument in Roanoke, Virginia

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/21/statue-of-henrietta-lacks-comign-to-roanoke/