Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈

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Award-winning historian. Professor Emerita living in the Queen City. I’ve written four books & my share of op-eds. I’m working on a book about the Rhythm Club fire of 1940. I ❤️ jazz.

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I took the Chicago River architecture tour today. 🙌Back to the archives tomorrow. 👩‍💻🗃️

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I’ve been up to something really exciting in recent months—launching a worker-run local news outlet in DC!! News cooperatives are a bright spot in a bleak media (and everything?) landscape & we need them more than ever. Read about our crowdfunding launch in The Washington Post t.co/R1s2UOmJfO

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtont.co The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

There were so many jazz magazines in the 1920s & 1930s & beyond. Hot Jazz was published Paris with articles in both French and English. #jazzhistory #research #jazzsky

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WE DID IT. This week @jbf1755.bsky.social and the screenwriters of National Treasure Cormac & Marianne Wibberley join in to talk abt making the movie, their love of history, & THAT SCENE. NATIONAL TREASURE drops NOW. Like, share, & subscribe to the pod for more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

‎Historians At The Movies: Episode 86: National Treasure with Joanne Freeman and The Wibberleys on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Historians At The Movies, Ep Episode 86: National Treasure with Joanne Freeman and The Wibberleys - Jul 15, 2024

I drove past this flag weekly on my way to teach at Wofford this past spring. Can’t blame this guy for how he feels. www.wspa.com/news/local-n...

Man arrested while trying to take down Confederate flag along I-85, deputies saywww.wspa.com A Georgia man was arrested Saturday night while reportedly attempting to take down a large Confederate flag along Interstate 85.

The shit that’s in the media right now. I just can’t.

Ain’t it tho?

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The Department of History of the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a tenure-track position in African American history since 1865 at the rank of assistant professor. All subspecialties are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/149560

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Went to my first WNBA game in years. Got to see Angel Reese play. Sadly the Chicago Sky lost. Lots of talent on the team. Hope they get better.

Priming the pump because they think they’ll lose? I do not look forward to all the effing conspiracy theories come November. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump allies at Heritage declare 2024 election illegitimate in advancewww.washingtonpost.com A “war game” presented at the right-wing foundation imagined far-fetched scenarios for election interference to justify preemptive measures.

Nerd alert! I had a great day working through the Steiner jazz archive at the University of Chicago. Cartoon compliments of Down Beat magazine, 1939. #jazzsky

It’s 73 and breezy. Thanks, Chicago.

My history lesson today was was to learn the meaning of TOBA. Theatre Owners Booking Association aka “Tough on Black Asses.” #jazzsky musicalgeography.org/history-of-t...

T.O.B.A History | Musical Geographymusicalgeography.org

Great day in the archive. Will work from my "home" tomorrow given that Beryl is making itself known tomorrow in Chicago. #jazzsky #BMRCfellowship

Hello Chicago! Now show me your jazz archives. #researchfellow #BMRC

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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

I suppose Gov. Kitten Heels will be taking cover under plywood during hurricane season.

Textbook authors told climate change references must be cut to get Florida’s OK The directive appears similar to requirements the state imposed on math and social studies textbooks said to include “critical race theory” and “social justice” material www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/07/05/t...

Textbook authors told climate change references must be cut to get Florida’s OKwww.orlandosentinel.com The action appears similar to requirements the state imposed on math and social studies textbooks said to include “critical race theory” and “social justice” material. The s…

I’m headed to Chicago tomorrow to begin my Black Metropolis Research Consortium summer fellowship. Excited!

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Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

Timeline cleanser courtesy of my sweet man.

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Kevin Roberts believes he’s a noble defender of “real America” against a totalitarian “woke,” “globalist” assault from without and within. “Project 2025” is his declaration of war on multiracial pluralism. I wrote about his extremist worldview here: 1/ thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/project-20...

“Project 2025” Promises Revenge, Oppression, and Autocratic Rulethomaszimmer.substack.com The Right’s plans for a return to power are driven by a radicalizing siege mentality and a desperate desire to restore dominance

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Today's must-read. Everything has a history, including yesterday's judicial coup on behalf of the executive, now possessing legal immunities that would be the envy of an absolute monarch.

My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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When the League of the South was formed in 1994 they sought a "godly" nation run by white men. Here I discuss how the Lost Cause is used by political conservatives who use it to help them achieve white male patriarchy including power over women, minorities, etc. realmsofmemory.com/podcast/epis...

Episode 30: Confederate Monuments and the Fight for Racial Justice - Realms of Memoryrealmsofmemory.com Despite the removal of scores of prominent monuments to the Confederacy the vast majority remain firmly in place. For communities to make informed decisions about the future of these monuments they n...

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New on @realmsofmemory.bsky.social podcast: UNC Charlotte historian and professor emerita @drkarenlcox.bsky.social discusses NO COMMON GROUND: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. realmsofmemory.com/podcast/epis...

Working on an updated chapter outline for the book. #amwriting

Where was this Joe last night? This is what we need.

Uncle Joe got THE 🔥FIRE🔥 THIS TIME

"When you get knocked down you get back up!"www.youtube.com YouTube video by C-SPAN

After an hour, I simply couldn't watch anymore. Biden didn't seem to have the energy to combat the lies Trump was spewing and, honestly, did not inspire confidence. Neither did Trump. I'll vote for democracy in November, but bloody hell that was hard to watch.

FFS this is uninformed and just plain stupid. thehill.com/opinion/camp...

RFK Jr. is right about Confederate statues, protecting our shared American historythehill.com Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed his opposition to the tearing down of Civil War statues, arguing that history should never be cancelled or rewritten.