ATTENTION PODCAST LISTENERS: Tune into Journalism History episode 93 to hear from our very own Kathy Roberts Forde as she deep dives into Journalism and Jim Crow with host @TeriFinneman! Listen here: journalism-history.org/2021/11/29/for… #historypodcast #podcast #journalismmatters

A winter storm is headed for New England, which means it's a good time to catch up on some reading! We hope everyone stays safe this weekend. ❄️📖☕️ Featuring the brilliant work of D'Weston Haywood! #snowdayreading #snow #reading (Not sponsored by Dunkin' 😉)

Don't forget about our amazing deal from Illinois Press. Get 30% off of Journalism and Jim Crow when you buy on their website using discount code F21UIP. It's never too late to start creating the bookshelf of your dreams! #BookCollection #Reading press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=65st…

Did you know that J. Max Barber, brilliant Black editor of The Voice of the Negro in Atlanta 1904-07, rightly blamed white newspaper leaders running for GA governor for the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906--and was forced into exile for telling the truth? #BlackHistory #FactFriday

This month we are starting a new series called #BlackHistorianMonday. Today's historian is none other than the brilliant @GreenidgeKerri. You can read her book, Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, by clicking the link below! amazon.com/Black-Radical-…

We are back with another contributor video! This month we highlight the incredible D'Weston Haywood, who discusses his chapter on militant Black journalists and how they countered the “printed arm of white supremacy.” #Truth #BlackHistory #Journalism youtu.be/7Gpl1-zk2yU

Alexander Manly, editor of the Black newspaper the Daily Record in Wilmington, NC, stood up against a violent white supremacist political movement in 1898. They burned his press, murdered his neighbors, stole the state election, and executed a coup d’etat in his city. #FactFriday

At readJJC, we constantly strive to share what we know AND learn from others. We've shared two outstanding Black authors, but we want to hear from YOU! Who would you like us to feature for our next #BlackHistorianMonday? Comment your favorite historians (past or present) below!

Have you gotten your copy of Journalism and Jim Crow yet? Finished it? Well, we have you covered! Here are a few other books that are good companion pieces to JJC, all illuminating the long Black struggle to achieve a just multiracial democracy in the U.S. #BookClub #BlackHistory

This week our #BlackHistorianMonday is our very own Blair LM Kelley, PhD! Learn about the streetcar boycott movement and its connection to the Black press in her award-winning Right to Ride. Then read her moving chapter “Silencing a Generation” in Journalism and Jim Crow. #BlackHistory

#BlackHistoryMonth might be over, but at Journalism and Jim Crow we never stop celebrating #BlackHistory and #BlackHistorians. Today we want to give an extra shoutout to our Black Contributors: D'Weston Haywood, Dr. Robert Greene II, & Blair LM Kelley, PhD. Thank you for all you do! #CelebrateBlackExcellence

White newspaper leaders in the South helped expand and protect the brutal convict leasing system that stole the lives and labor of Black men, women, and children for decades. Learn more in Journalism and Jim Crow. #convictleasing #readJJC

Exciting news! Journalism and Jim Crow has been featured in The Baltimore Sun! Read the op-ed here: baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/… #newspapers #TheBaltimoreSun

Now that we have (mostly) adjusted to daylight savings, it means there is more sunshine in our day for reading! When is your favorite time to read? #BookClub #Journalism #HappySpring

Black American journalists made major contributions to US international reporting. Learn more in LSU Professor @Jinx_Broussard ’s award-winning book African American Foreign Correspondents. #BlackHistorianMonday #history #twitterstorians