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Dana A. Williams
@danaawilliams.bsky.social
African American literature prof, dean of the Graduate School @Howard U. Soul-Story. Get Free or Die Trying.
Celebrating both Harriet Tubman as ancestor and Tiya Miles as writer this #BHM ✊🏽 moment. Grateful for her witness tonight at Metropolitan AME, in the tradition of the Bethel Literary and Historical Society.
February 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Today”s ✊🏽 #BHM moment celebrates the father/son duo that always shows love for Black life and traditions: Amiri and Ras Baraka. #BornForThis
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Celebrating the life of Dr Jerry Ward on this day in Black History. ✊🏽BHM

Shout out to the @clascholars.bsky.social fam for a wonderful tribute to Dr Ward as we begin to mourn his transition. mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/jerr...
February 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Spent some time with the wonderful board members of the Ben’s Chili Bowl Foundation today. You guessed it: today’s BHM spotlight is none other than Ms Virginia Ali and the Ali family. ✊🏽#BHM
February 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Today’s #BHM ✊🏽 spotlight is my HU English fam. Check out the student-run lit journal. It’s just so good. Check out an issue here: www.theamistad.com/copy-of-2023....
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
✊🏽#BHM spotlight: @clascholars.bsky.social and Dr Hugh Gloster, CLA’s founder. To learn more about CLA, visit clascholars.org; and you can learn more about Dr Gloster there too.
February 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
#BHM ✊🏽

The incomparable Toni Cade Bambara on the role of the artist…
February 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#BHM✊🏽 Love my #GramFam… Making Black history since 1901… 🐯
February 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
#BHM ✊🏽
For today’s Black History Month post, I’m spotlighting the vision of perpetuity for the first and the finest, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Service to All Humankind 💕💚…
February 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
#BHM✊🏽
Like so many of us, I come from a long line of freedom fighters. My granthfather had the courage to oppose the education apartheid regime in our home town. Here he is marking the moment before Williams v Kimbrough. He/We prevailed.
February 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM