Chris Willoughby

When the @unlv.edu #DouglassDay team wins the winter Olympics 😍! We have more California conventions coming from the Occidental College team!

The "Harlem Renaissance" band was local to LA

5. Moulin Rouge photo
6. Welfare Rights Protest in Vegas
7. Tupac and Afeni Shakur
8. Douglass Day Cake 2023

Notice also the facade of the church that hosted that first Colored Convention. Happy #DouglassDay Everyone!

Celebrating the First Colored Conventions in the West with our
@douglassday.bsky.social cake for @unlv.edu's annal celebration. The time line includes:
1. Pio Pico: Last Governor of California in Mexico
2. Buffalo Soldiers
3. Mary Ellen Pleasant
4. Harlem Renaissance Band

5. Moulin Rouge photo
6. Welfare Rights Protest in Vegas
7. Tupac and Afeni Shakur
8. Douglass Day Cake 2023

Notice also the facade of the church that hosted that first Colored Convention. Happy #DouglassDay Everyone

Went old school today in light of shocking revelations and took aspirin instead.

Really psyched about this one and the amazing chance to collaborate with Dominic Hall, Evelynn Hammonds, and Scott Podolsky. Check out "John Collins Warren—Journal Founder, Institution Builder, and Racial Theorist" here: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"This wildly effective thing that you're doing? I'm gonna need you to stop." - ancient Koan of Dem leadership

Automaker’s Tariff Plan: Cut Jobs And Pay Off Wall Street Stellantis laid off a thousand U.S. workers in response to tariffs, then authorized billions in shareholder payouts.

NEWS: Pleading poverty, Stellantis executives laid off 900 autoworkers allegedly in response to tariff threats - and then JUST 13 DAYS LATER LATER, the same Stellantis executives announced a $2.2 billion dividend payout to shareholders. www.levernews.com/automakers-t...

Congrats!!!

It's the last day to vote for my article (I think!). I would even suggest reading it ;). Vote here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/69K38W8

Yes, check this out and vote here! It's been so much working with the KHS, as they do such important work for bringing awareness to Kentucky's rich and fascinating history.
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Medical Education and Racial Science | Christopher Willoughby Podcast Episode · Kentucky Chronicles: A Podcast of the Kentucky Historical Society · 02/07/2025 · 49m

Dr. Willoughby's podcast episode is also a great way to learn more about his research:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Vote for me please! I must win in good fun!

@ryangrim.bsky.social @krystalball.bsky.social Happy to be your on-call bloodletting expert.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Join us tomorrow for the next session of the #Slaveryarchive Book Club with @randybrowne.bsky.social on his book The Driver's Story, register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Thrilled to guest edit a Special Issue of the Register of KY History on medicine and healthcare w/excellent contributions by @joanecashin.bsky.social @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social @jonathansjones.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social
And stuff by me on Loretta Lynn!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54237

many weather-related deaths are "accidents" -- like overheatings, freezings, drownings, traffic crashes, or building collapses.

but if we have the power and skill to warn people that threatening weather looms -- and we fire the people who make the warnings -- it's not "an accident" when people die.

Fifth attempt at bread making went pretty well. First four tasted good but were various degrees of too dense.

William H. Welch Shortlist William H. Welch Medal Shortlist The William H. Welch Medal is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history publis...

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and huge thanks to the 2024-2025 Welch Medal committee! Stay tuned, the winner will be announced at our awards breakfast in Boston at AAHM 2025!

histmed.org/william-h-we...

Medicine and Black politics: Dr J D Harris's remarkable life When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune Sm...

I wrote a review for @thelancet.bsky.social of Margaret Humphrey's excellent new book Searching for Dr. Harris published by @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If This Isn’t Corruption, Nothing Is Donald Trump once told voters he was fighting a corrupt political system. With Elon Musk operating with impunity throughout the federal government, Trump has taken political corruption to new and unpr...

jacobin.com/2025/02/trum...

Our student worker designed it!

They let me act like I am cutting the #DouglassDay cake!

Happy #DouglassDay from @unlv.edu ! Thanks to cake designs and Lied Library Peer Mentor Coach Tayla Penn for the stamp design! Thanks @douglassday.bsky.social for organizing this amazing event!

It’s beginning to look a lot like #DouglassDay

I'm feeling a strong sense of anticipation as I await the delivery of our #DouglassDay cake!

Take a look at other excellent articles by @lmacthompson1.bsky.social, Joan Cashin,
@jonathansjones.bsky.social, and Brian Ward! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54237