Forest Issac Jones

I am honored that @AnthemPress will publish my first book- 'Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972' in April 2025. I am over the moon and humbled to have signed my first book contract. #NorthernIreland #CivilRights #History #writing

A big thank you for the people who came out today for the event at the Virginia Festival of the book. Standing room only and great questions about Good Trouble! #history #books #NorthernIreland

Tomorrow I’ll be talking about ‘Good Trouble’ at the Virginia Festival of the Book at 2pm in the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville! Please share if you know anyone in the Charlottesville area! #books #history #Ireland #NorthernIreland

If you want to learn more about the Catholic civil rights experience in Northern Ireland, ‘Good Trouble’ is available everywhere! #StPatrick #StPatsDay #History

@tLoebLookout Fantastic! I’ll be at the Irish Arts Centre in NYC on 9/17. No details on the time yet.

@DrForestIssac I am bicoastal. I will keep track on your events page. If anything pops up in LA, NYC, or Atl, let me know.

Hopefully, with the way that school history is being censored right now to an even more frightening degree, #BloodySunday is still being taught. And if you want to have an open discussion with your kids about it, get a copy of the #JohnLewis graphic novel trilogies #March & #Run.

@tLoebLookout I also have an events page on my website 😊 forestissacjones.com

@DrForestIssac Is there a book tour? I saw your book came out last year. Would love to come and hear you speak on it

@OfficialMLK3 Amen. I was honored to interview many of these folks and talk about their influence on the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland ❤️🇮🇪

#OTD civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery for the right to vote. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met with brutal force on what we now call Bloody Sunday. Voter suppression may wear new disguises, but progress is only won through persistence and collective action.

@SenatorWarnock And if you want to read about the people that were there and their influence on the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland—check out ‘Good Trouble’ ❤️🇮🇪

61 years ago, John Lewis and hundreds of civil rights activists were severely beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for freedom. Soon after Bloody Sunday, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. While we may be in difficult times right now, who are we to give up when the foot soldiers at Selma didn’t?

On this day in 1965, 600 marchers were attacked on #Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge during a Voting Rights protest. Known as #BloodySunday Read about their heroism and the influence on the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland in ‘Good Trouble’ #History #Books

@BerniceKing I was able to interview folks who were there and influenced the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland ❤️🇮🇪

“Sunday, Bloody Sunday” Thank you to the elders and the ancestors who marched into state-sanctioned and state-perpetuated violence with freedom on their minds and hope in their hearts. #BloodySunday #Selma #RestoreTheVRA #JohnLewisVRAA

@NMAAHC With ‘Good Trouble’ I was able to interview people who were on the March & talk about their influence on the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland ❤️🇮🇪

#OnThisDay in 1965, 600 marchers were attacked on #Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge during a Voting Rights protest. Known as #BloodySunday, this march was one of 3 from Selma to Montgomery. More: s.si.edu/2FvhwZQ #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory

In two weeks I’ll be talking about ‘Good Trouble’ at the Virginia Festival of the Book on Saturday, March 21 at 2pm in the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville! Please share if you know anyone in the Charlottesville area! #books #history #Ireland #NorthernIreland

A week from today! I’ll be talking about ‘Good Trouble’ with Irish Times Editor Mark Hennessy at @chaptersbooks It will be a great discussion! #History #books #NorthernIreland #Ireland

Next month I’ll be at @chaptersbooks in Dublin with Irish Times Editor Mark Hennessy talking about ‘Good Trouble’ on March 3 at 6:30. It should be a great chat! #History #books #NorthernIreland

You’ll see ‘Good Trouble’ on the mid left side at the Derry Bookfair yesterday! Love seeing this piece of Black history with Irish ☘️ history! #BlackHistoryMonth

Bernadette Devlin's reply to being dubbed "unladylike" for punching Reg Maudling in protest of Bloody Sunday: "Unladylike? There's a young girl whose body was carried out of the Bogside this morning. She was shot in the back by the Paras. They didn't ask her if she was a lady."

Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds. 😂

@Mr_whistlepig Have fun! I thought about you last night! Only Hokies MBB could lose being up by 4 with 8 seconds left lol

Virginia Tech is 2-3 to start conference play. Here are their 3 losses.