Valencia Abbott
@vannabbott.bsky.social
High School Social Studies Teacher, Local Historian, Photographer, Telling Black Stories is my passion and side hustle. Black Folks Education Ambassador (accept the moniker).
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Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
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I’ll be at #NCSS2025 and I’d love to see you there! Will you also attend?
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I’ll be at #NCSS2025 and I’d love to see you there! Will you also attend?
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
Learn more and register here: invt.io/1fxbo3f0ll1
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This looks great!💥
Save 30% on "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, which examines the labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. #Labor buff.ly/slifuV3
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This looks great!💥
Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Excited to share, my proposal for the 2026 NCHE Conference—“Road Tripping Through Black Routes and Resistance: Teaching Diaspora, Migration, and Survival”—has been accepted as a breakout session.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
The idea grew from the Teaching African American History Webinar Series with National History Day.
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Really want to know more about this lecture the Reverend W. S. Carpenter delivered in Philadelphia in 1920, entitled "Sambo is Dead." The good Reverend looking absolutely fierce here
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Really want to know more about this lecture the Reverend W. S. Carpenter delivered in Philadelphia in 1920, entitled "Sambo is Dead." The good Reverend looking absolutely fierce here
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"Historians estimate that Brazil alone imported approximately 4.8M enslaved men, women and children, representing nearly half of the 10.5M enslaved Africans who disembarked alive in the Americas between 1501 and 1866.
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Historians estimate that Brazil alone imported approximately 4.8M enslaved men, women and children, representing nearly half of the 10.5M enslaved Africans who disembarked alive in the Americas between 1501 and 1866.
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
… 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."
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In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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Happy #VeteransDay! This World War I photo of African American soldiers is a new acquisition from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC10206). It was taken in front of the Grant Theater at Camp Saint-Sulpice, located near Bordeaux, France.
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Happy #VeteransDay! This World War I photo of African American soldiers is a new acquisition from the Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC10206). It was taken in front of the Grant Theater at Camp Saint-Sulpice, located near Bordeaux, France.
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
If you recognize anyone, please DM us. We want to learn more!
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Tochi Onyebuchi's amazing essay collection, out now on my imprint, is NPR's book of the day!!!! www.npr.org/2025/11/11/n...
Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online : NPR's Book of the Day
Tochi Onyebuchi remembers when the internet was fun. The science fiction and fantasy author says he initially existed online as a “skinless, raceless entity” until he experienced a shift around 2012. ...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tochi Onyebuchi's amazing essay collection, out now on my imprint, is NPR's book of the day!!!! www.npr.org/2025/11/11/n...
One of the organizations that I mentioned in my speech for NHTOY was @zinnedproject.bsky.social and this arrived today! Now you know why they got a shout out! #NHTOY2025 #Read #HistoryMatters
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
One of the organizations that I mentioned in my speech for NHTOY was @zinnedproject.bsky.social and this arrived today! Now you know why they got a shout out! #NHTOY2025 #Read #HistoryMatters
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Q: So Dr Oz said that--
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Q: So Dr Oz said that--
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
Honored to be invited to speak (virtually) at the 2025 American Education Week Luncheon Celebration✨
Though I can’t be there in person this Friday, I’m proud to support such a powerful effort to preserve and celebrate Black history in education. 🖤
#PreserveOurStories
Though I can’t be there in person this Friday, I’m proud to support such a powerful effort to preserve and celebrate Black history in education. 🖤
#PreserveOurStories
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Honored to be invited to speak (virtually) at the 2025 American Education Week Luncheon Celebration✨
Though I can’t be there in person this Friday, I’m proud to support such a powerful effort to preserve and celebrate Black history in education. 🖤
#PreserveOurStories
Though I can’t be there in person this Friday, I’m proud to support such a powerful effort to preserve and celebrate Black history in education. 🖤
#PreserveOurStories
At the 2025 #NHTOY celebration, my former student Natalie spoke in my honor. 💛
“Ms. Abbott never stops believing in her students who they are, and who they can and will be.”
Reminding us that history is never the past and that’s the work I’ll always stand by. @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
“Ms. Abbott never stops believing in her students who they are, and who they can and will be.”
Reminding us that history is never the past and that’s the work I’ll always stand by. @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
At the 2025 #NHTOY celebration, my former student Natalie spoke in my honor. 💛
“Ms. Abbott never stops believing in her students who they are, and who they can and will be.”
Reminding us that history is never the past and that’s the work I’ll always stand by. @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
“Ms. Abbott never stops believing in her students who they are, and who they can and will be.”
Reminding us that history is never the past and that’s the work I’ll always stand by. @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.
Cowards
Cowards
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.
Cowards
Cowards
Last evening was amazing, the recognition of my life's work was gratifying and humbling as I know my voice is a echo of other history teachers. #NHTOY #NHTOY2025 @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Last evening was amazing, the recognition of my life's work was gratifying and humbling as I know my voice is a echo of other history teachers. #NHTOY #NHTOY2025 @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.
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After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore
“There’s no downcast eyes. There’s no one looking away...There is not a single figure that we encounter in her work that carries a gaze of ‘I don’t belong.’”
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“There’s no downcast eyes. There’s no one looking away...There is not a single figure that we encounter in her work that carries a gaze of ‘I don’t belong.’”
wapo.st/4i0ukaB
After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore
Baltimoreans flocked to opening day of “American Sublime,” the exhibition Amy Sherald removed from the National Portrait Gallery this summer.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore
“There’s no downcast eyes. There’s no one looking away...There is not a single figure that we encounter in her work that carries a gaze of ‘I don’t belong.’”
wapo.st/4i0ukaB
“There’s no downcast eyes. There’s no one looking away...There is not a single figure that we encounter in her work that carries a gaze of ‘I don’t belong.’”
wapo.st/4i0ukaB
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The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.