Patrick Jones
@pdjones.bsky.social
Historian of modern U.S. history and African American Studies; Author, The Selma of the North; Creator, Roz Payne Sixties Archive; Ella Baker small ‘d’ democrat; #GirlDad
Jose is The Truth! Most under-appreciate great player in baseball…
September 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Jose is The Truth! Most under-appreciate great player in baseball…
Love seeing national headlines like this about our little blue dot out here on the edge of the Great Plains…
May 15, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Love seeing national headlines like this about our little blue dot out here on the edge of the Great Plains…
A few weeks back, Zora (13) got on a little run of writing very authentic & heart-felt hand-written letters to some of the artists that touch her. Last evening, when I came home from a poetry reading, collected the mail that had stacked up in the chute over a couple of days, I found THIS waiting...
April 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A few weeks back, Zora (13) got on a little run of writing very authentic & heart-felt hand-written letters to some of the artists that touch her. Last evening, when I came home from a poetry reading, collected the mail that had stacked up in the chute over a couple of days, I found THIS waiting...
Read this. Stare into the abyss of cruelty and injustice. This is America.
April 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Read this. Stare into the abyss of cruelty and injustice. This is America.
“relevant education,” an enduring struggle…
from San Francisco State University “Third World Liberation” Strike in 1968-1969, the biggest student strike in American campus history. The protest resulted in the creation of the first Ethnic Studies program in the country.
Artist: Saichi Kawahara
from San Francisco State University “Third World Liberation” Strike in 1968-1969, the biggest student strike in American campus history. The protest resulted in the creation of the first Ethnic Studies program in the country.
Artist: Saichi Kawahara
February 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
“relevant education,” an enduring struggle…
from San Francisco State University “Third World Liberation” Strike in 1968-1969, the biggest student strike in American campus history. The protest resulted in the creation of the first Ethnic Studies program in the country.
Artist: Saichi Kawahara
from San Francisco State University “Third World Liberation” Strike in 1968-1969, the biggest student strike in American campus history. The protest resulted in the creation of the first Ethnic Studies program in the country.
Artist: Saichi Kawahara
Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…
February 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…
Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…
February 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…
Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…
February 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Human dignity and basic rights for ALL…
Don’t waste time today watching the inaug. Rather, spend some quality time studying - more deeply than a meme, or decontextualized quote from a speech or book you’ve never actually read, or as a virtue-signal - the complex life, thought and lessons of MLK. Put in a little work…
January 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Don’t waste time today watching the inaug. Rather, spend some quality time studying - more deeply than a meme, or decontextualized quote from a speech or book you’ve never actually read, or as a virtue-signal - the complex life, thought and lessons of MLK. Put in a little work…
Great community-based graphic novel about WV folks who have been a part of struggles for justice, like Freedom Rider, Joan Browning. There are a whole bunch of fascinating and important threads in this one. Lots of potential teaching opportunities out of a book like this. Check it out!
January 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Great community-based graphic novel about WV folks who have been a part of struggles for justice, like Freedom Rider, Joan Browning. There are a whole bunch of fascinating and important threads in this one. Lots of potential teaching opportunities out of a book like this. Check it out!
What’s up, Bluesky?
November 14, 2024 at 2:02 AM
What’s up, Bluesky?