Dr. Cindy Gueli

This is awesome: To raise funds to pay for repairs from the 2011 earthquake, the National Cathedral is building a Lego model of itself (people can pay to help build it).

The great statesman & lawyer John Mercer Langston of Virginia, son of a formerly enslaved woman & her former owner, co-founded the National Equal Rights League in 1864, helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1875, president of Virginia State University, elected to US Congress 1890.

New archaeology at abandoned Oregon town reveals hidden lives of Black logging families opb.org/article/2024/0…

MARYLAND: A referendum on abortion rights is on our state's presidential ballot this November. A vote "FOR" Question 1 puts an individual's right to reproductive freedom in the Maryland constitution. 👇

“Our silence will not protect us. It never did” #AnswerTheCall #Kamala4President2024 youtube.com/live/8VxGlONBe…

I visited all of DC's boundary stones over the course of a 9.5 hour minivan ride. I wrote about the journey -- and the history of DC's oldest federal monuments. npr.org/2024/07/04/nx-…

12 years ago, today I recorded this video inside the Jefferson Memorial. The Derecho of June 29, 2012, was the most intense thunderstorm I've witnessed.

Happy 100th to Charles Shay, last living medic from Omaha Beach on D Day. Photo taken today. @WWIIMemorial

Last night's lightning shoot was disappointing because the storms fizzled out, but I captured one shot. This view is from the Jefferson Memorial of a storm moving north of D.C. before the rain moved into town. @capitalweather

#Juneteenth is a celebration of progress and the possibility of change. It is vital that African American stories are told. Here are some from @librarycongress: A plantation owner stood on the front porch of this house to tell more than 150 enslaved workers they were free.🧵👇🏽

Suffragette-defaced Edward VII penny with subversive political graffiti for the women's suffrage cause - 20thC, UK via British Museum #womensart

Remembering the great - and not always liked - Julius Hobson, a civil rights icon who made “good trouble” for DC citizens. His papers are now to be digitized by the DC Public Library for future research.

Today is Mister Rogers' birthday. Today is Big Bird's birthday. And spring has officially sprung. A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.

I research women and far-right movements in the U.S. and Europe, including why women are increasingly likely to join and how their role has changed. This speech was a masterclass. 1/

@TheTattooedProf @Ijustlivehere99 Wishing you a quick and easy recovery!

Reposting this thread. Still shocking, years later.

This. Really important thread.

Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up. I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists. Here's how:

"It's a Wonderful Life" was released today 1946:

Discovered this wonderful handwritten letter from former First Lady Rosalynn Carter to Leonard Bernstein in the @librarycongress Music Division. Rest in peace Mrs. Carter.