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in baltimore's historic fells point, history & coffee combines a history focused bookstore, coffee shop, and interactive exhibit experience while building an online history community across the united states
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☕️h&c book boost (5/19/24)🔄
📚in *Fear of a Black Republic* (2022) Leslie M. Alexander illuminates💡
🗣️african american haitian revolution responses🇭🇹
🔥forged black internationalist thought💭
🚨white fear➡️policy backlash💥
🌊haiti motivated seizing freedom in u.s.🔊
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Leslie M. Alexander, Fear of A Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022)
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May 19, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Yesterday was a wonderful first day of exhibiting for history & coffee at #AAM2024. We debuted our interactive exhibit developed together with our partners Quatrefoil Associates. It explores national stories through the lens of Baltimore histories, with a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices.
Two African American people engaging with an interactive exhibit display screen. history & coffee's General Manager Tiheera is facilitating visitor engagement with the exhibit while also handing them a free gift in a box.
May 18, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/14/24)🔄
📚in *By Hands Now Known* (2022) Margaret A. Burnham...
💡illuminates intersects of violence & law⚖️
📍localized white supremacy via jim crow🛑
🕰️early/mid 20th c.⏳
🚫slavery into➡️criminal justice system📃
🫂human centered legal histories🏛️
🔗 www.historyandcoffee.com/books/by-han...
Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022)
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May 14, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/9/24)🔄
📚in *City of Inmates* (2017), Kelly Lytle Hernández examines incarceration around what became Los Angeles⛓️
💡to illuminate settler colonialism & power💥
🪢structuring u.s.➕cross-border imperialism🌎
🚧forced labor building social order🧱
➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/city-o...
May 9, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/8/24)🔄
📚in *I've Been Here All the While* (2021), Alaina E. Roberts (@alainaroberts.bsky.social) shares her family histories as a jumping off point to understand💡
🌄Native American & Black interrelationships🖇️
✨of freedom, land, belonging💗
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Alaina E. Roberts, I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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May 8, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/7/24)🔄
📚in *Cutting School* (2017), Noliwe Rooks foregrounds segregated education🏫
💡for understanding economic➕racial structuring🏗️
💵unequal education🟰profitable📈
💰white philanthropy restricted Black opportunity🛑
⚖️ongoing disputed access💥
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May 7, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/6/24)🔄
📚in *Resistance from the Right* (2023), Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (@llassabe.bsky.social)💡illuminates rw student backlash vs. the civil rights movement🪃
💰conservative money power💵
⛓️inherently reactionary🧲
🎓embraced Republican Party🐘
➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/resist...
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
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May 6, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (4/30/24)🔄
📚in *Migrant Citizenship* (2020), Verónica Martínez-Matsuda centers farmworkers in New Deal welfare state🫛
💥converted FSA camps into power➕citizenship🗳️
💵demanded wages, medicine, education, housing🏡
💕made democracy more inclusive⚖️
➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/migran...
Verónica Matsuda-Martínez, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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April 30, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (4/29/24)🔄
📚in *Race for Profit* (2019), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor💡examines federal policy "predatory inclusion" of Black women in 1970s homeownership🧱
💸public-private partnerships drove housing access🏘️
🚫segregation status quo➡️white profit💰
🔗 www.historyandcoffee.com/books/race-f...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2019)
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April 29, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (4/28/24)🔄
📚in Scattered & Fugitive Things (2024), Laura E. Helton (@lehelton.bsky.social)🖊️
💡illuminates how Black people shaped histories🇺🇸
🧱building➕preserving archives🗃️
⚒️in community libraries, HBCUs, homes🏡
💥taking risks & forging accessibility🏦
🪙valuing➕ordering Black memories💞
April 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (4/27/24)🔄
📚in *harambee city* (2017), nishani frazier animates core in 1960s cleveland through oral histories
(🖇️ harambeecity.rrchnm.org)
🌱making the past grassroots➕collective💞
💡asking how do people adapt organizing structures for change❓
➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/haramb...
HARAMBEE CITY Digital Archive at MiamiOH
HARAMBEE CITY digital archives and website is a creation of Dr. Nishani Frazier, Associate Professor of History at Miami University.
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April 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Messages like this inspire my public history work and keep the @historycoffee.bsky.social project going! Learn more on our site: www.historyandcoffee.com
A screenshot of direct messages received on TikTok, timestamped "Yesterday 7:39 PM." The first message states: "Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your content. I'm the caretaker for both of my grandparents (adopted parents). My pawpaw is a retired history teacher and we watch your content daily. He loves it so much. He said, and I quote, 'that's a fine young man.'" The second message states: "It might not seem like much but that is HIGH praise coming from him."
March 24, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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It’s wonderful to see how Baltimore comes together around the inspirational work & lives of Elizabeth Talford Scott & Joyce J. Scott. Yesterday we visited the Peale & today the Lewis Museum (pictured) to experience their exhibitions for No Stone Left Unturned: The Elizabeth Talford Scott Initiative:
Tiheera and Emmanuel standing in front of a pink and blue quilt by Elizabeth Talford Scott that is part of a museum exhibition.
March 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Exciting news: we just got the keys to history & coffee's space in historic Fells Point! 📚☕
Emmanuel receiving the keys for history & coffee's new space from a leasing agent. They both look excited.
March 14, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Shout out to @historycoffee.bsky.social for advocating for history books and for this excellent synopsis of Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Suffrage Movement. Give them a follow for more history! #sschat 🗃️ 🗺️ 🍎 #WomensHistoryMonth

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Rouse, Wendy L. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press, 2022.
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March 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Some nice guiding questions, quotes, and synopsis of Live from the Underground from @historycoffee.bsky.social! www.historyandcoffee.com/books/live-f...
March 11, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Happy Birthday to activist and minister Reverend Ralph Abernathy Sr. (born March 11, 1926, in Linden, AL), who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and led the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. #OnThisDay

Citations: www.jstor.org/stable/1512419; www.jstor.org/stable/23937...;
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An "ON THIS DAY" graphic for March 11, 1926, which states: "Happy Birthday to activist and minister Reverend Ralph Abernathy Sr. (b. 1926), who mentored MLK and led the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. The bottom of the graphic includes two black-and-white photographs of African American man Abernathy alongside the history & coffee logo, which features a coffee cup overlaid on an architectural drawing.
March 11, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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Happy Birthday to activist and medical professional Lillian Wald (born March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati, OH), a second-generation Jewish immigrant to the United States who actively brought people together across lines of gender, class, race, religion, and more.
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An ”ON THIS DAY” graphic for 3/10/1867 featuring two black-and-white portrait photographs of white woman Lillian Wald alongside the logo for history & coffee, which is a labeled coffee cup overlaid on an architectural drawing of Baltimore City. It also features this text: “Happy Birthday to activist & nurse Lillian Wald, a second-generation Jewish immigrant to the U.S. who brought people together across social divides.”
March 10, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Signal boosting - love this!
emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social · Mar 9
General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com
A color photograph of African American woman Tiheera Blount and white man Emmanuel Mehr posing beside the Billie Holiday statue in Baltimore. They both hold a copy of Angela Y. Davis's book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, which features an image of Holiday on its cover.
March 9, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Exciting!!
emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social · Mar 9
General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com
A color photograph of African American woman Tiheera Blount and white man Emmanuel Mehr posing beside the Billie Holiday statue in Baltimore. They both hold a copy of Angela Y. Davis's book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, which features an image of Holiday on its cover.
March 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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It's all coming together! 🎉
emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social · Mar 9
General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com
A color photograph of African American woman Tiheera Blount and white man Emmanuel Mehr posing beside the Billie Holiday statue in Baltimore. They both hold a copy of Angela Y. Davis's book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, which features an image of Holiday on its cover.
March 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM