Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD

The Big Review | The Woman Question 1550-2025 ★★★★½ Works spanning centuries have been brought together in an exhibition highlighting how hard-fought women’s rights are under constant threat

The Big Review | The Woman Question 1550-2025 ★★★★½
Works spanning centuries have been brought together in an exhibition highlighting how hard-fought women’s rights are under constant threat
by Alyce Mahon for @theartnewspaper.bsky.social
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This is alarming.

Was ICE targeting a journalist? One in particular who had covered their detention activities in Nashville?

HBCU Students Walk Miles to the Polls After Campus Sites Are Cut Black college students in North Carolina and Texas continue to engage students to be more civically active.

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Gordon Parks’ 1950s photographs ‘made the Black community fully human’ ‘We Shall Not be Moved’ at Alison Jacques gallery in London is essential and moving viewing

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For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

God Bless the Child (1956 Version) by Billie Holiday on Apple Music Song · 1956 · Duration 3:57

Now Playing. Billie Holiday. God Bless the Child.

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A full moon against the night sky as seen from Hermitage TN.

Enjoying Libations and Lady Day on the #QuarantineDeck

#Photography
#MoonOverHermitage
#Moonshot
#astrophotography
#Jazz
#BillieHoliday

I do enjoy visiting the store because they have a first rate deli and cakes to die for. Still, I have to wait 7 hours before I can eat sausage as opposed to 45 minutes after the UPS driver rings my doorbell. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Florida Mass Choir - He's A Battle Axe (Lyric Video) YouTube video by malacomg

Now playing. Florida Mass Choir. He’s a Battle Ax. 3/3

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Smiling at me, when I fry them up I’ll hear them and my mama singing “He’ a battle ax…”, and if ancestral love and joy had a smell, it would probably smell like my kitchen will around 5 tomorrow morning. 2/3

Whenever I drive home to visit my family in Florida, I always stop by this spot between Albany and Cordele, GA to grab some sausage.

During one visit, the owner informed me that they’d ship them to me in Nashville. 😋

Now when I receive a package from them and raise the lid, I see my aunties 1/3

Women Artists: Reframing the Rockies — AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes Women are not usually seen as the heroes and protagonists of the American West and its landscape, especially in myth and art. The late nineteenth century quote and directive often attributed to Horace...

Women Artists: Reframing the Rockies
by Emily Larsen for AWARE
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Thank you, Sir!

5 lessons from Learotha Williams, newly named as Davidson County historian There’s a little-known role in the Metro government: Davidson County Historian. A familiar face has stepped into the role. Dr. Learotha Williams Jr., a

I just heard the news that @learothawms.bsky.social is our new county historian. This is a gift to all us Nashvillians. Congratulations, sir!
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A hyped up berry smoothie sitting on a frosted glass patio table.

A Hany Mukhtar kick.

Enjoying a “Berry” nice rum smoothie on the #QuarantineDeck.
Fresh fruit with a #kick never miss.
#spring
#cocktails

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

🥰🥰🥰
Artle #Artle March 3, 2026 🎨 🟥 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

The peak of the eclipse occurs early in the morning of March 3, featuring 58 minutes of full totality starting around 6:04 a.m. EST.

Don't miss catching a glimpse of the blood moon.

What's Up: March 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Going in Circles by The Gap Band on Apple Music Song · 1985 · Duration 4:34

Now Playing. Gap Band. Going in Circles.

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A bright moon peeks from behind white clouds.

A bright moon peeks from behind white clouds

A bright moon peeks from behind white clouds

A bright moon peeks from behind white clouds

Enjoying a libation and watching the majestic pirouettes occurring in the night sky over hermitage.
#moonshot
#moonoverhermitage
#astrophotography
#photography

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It's Only a Paper Moon by Miles Davis on Apple Music Song · 1951 · Duration 5:25

Now Playing. Miles Davis+Sonny Rollins. “It’s Only a Paper Moon”

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A bright moon against a pitch black sky.

Moonglow.
#moonshot
#astrophotography
#moon

The Black revolutionary tradition in theater and film The history of African American performance, theater, and film is deep and rich. Since the days of chattel slavery, African Americans have used performance and storytelling as a means of escape, empow...

"Fun fact: The Haitian Revolution inspired more plays by Black playwrights than any other event in Black history — for instance, Toussaint L’Ouverture by C.L.R. James and Langston Hughes’ Emperor of Haiti." cpusa.org/article/the-...

The woman who quietly changed the face of the civil rights movement Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

Dorothy Height, The woman who quietly changed the face of the civil rights movement www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

The total lunar eclipse on March 3 will be the last until New Year's Eve 2028 After this 'blood moon,' our natural satellite will not fully disappear into Earth's shadow again for nearly three years — until a rare trifecta of total lunar eclipses in 2028–29 ends the drought.

Gotta get up early on the 3rd

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17 Brutally Honest Takes On Famous Tourist Destinations That People Hate With a Passion "What a tacky place. 'Myrtle Beach in the mountains.'"

These are brutal, indeed.

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Inside Atlanta's soul food revolution From fried chicken to hoisin-glazed oxtail, the city's most famous comfort food is changing. But its flavours still tell the story of migration and survival in every bite.

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