
jayson m porter
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jayson m porter
@RogueChieftan
Environmental historian & writer, & Asst Professor @UofMaryland. food systems, agrochemicals, Black & Indigenous ecologies in Mexico & the Americas @NACLA
DC | Philly | Mexico City Katılım Nisan 2009
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What do sesame seeds tell us about the environmental histories of the African Diaspora? How does a historian know where to start? It’s all a question of process.
Check out my new essay, "Sesame Plots: Diaspora in twenty-one openings."
sciencehistory.org/stories/magazi…
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I’ve been informed to look into the work of Rene Ngongo is who I should look into on activism in the Congo. Any other suggestions??
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The second lung of the world is on fire. I met with a frontline organizer from the Congo yesterday, and I’m still shaking. We need to talk more about what’s happening in the Congolese forests.
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@BlackCatrachoBK @TheBlackEcoFem Let’s goooooo!!! Congrats fam
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Bryn Mawr College Board Approves Spring 2026 Promotions and Tenure brynmawr.edu/news/bryn-mawr…
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Phenomenal new episode with Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, discussing African American literature, Ethnic Studies, the expansive geographies of Black life, and Black Studies across the hispanophone world. Here and at most streams: go.umd.edu/Yomaira
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I love that she really took it serious & went to school & not doing the cheat code & took private classes . Like she really was in it fr
Victorian Stats✨@VictorianStats
Chef Victoria Monét and the class of 2026 at their graduation 👩🏾🍳🎓✨
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Handcuffed a baby?! FIRE EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY
ALUTHEDON@Mbakaza4L
Winter Haven Police Department with German Shepard, handcuffs toddler and mother in Florida
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Maryland historian Anthony Cohen is retracing a 750-mile Underground Railroad route from Maryland to Canada, 30 years after first making the walk
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"Enslaved women were so committed to each other that hostage-takers were unable to determine the frequency of abortions that occurred on the plantation.”— Ivy Valentine
scalawagmagazine.org/2025/02/reprod…
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I think this is the most gangsta shit I’ve ever seen tbh
Pico 🎈@Piicools
getting a daughter will have you loosing gangsta points daily 😂
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Daquan Minor was paralyzed from the waist down after a car collision at 16. On Sunday, he walked the graduation stage at Texas Woman's University as a doctor of occupational therapy. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
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We won all three grants we applied for this year and now pivot to building awareness! Please give this a share and consider following us on IG @cedargalleryumd. Thanks for your support!!
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The CEDAR Gallery is now open @UofMaryland and stands for Centering Ecologies, Diasporas and Ancestral Roots. It’s a permanent environmental micro art gallery designed to support high school and university students through climate anxiety and eco-grief.




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On Cinco de Mayo this THROWBACK article from 1980 documents the first Africans in Mexico, enslaved people brought over in the first years of Spanish occupation. ow.ly/4wmx50YTTYo #CincoDeMayo #AfricanDiaspora #AfroMexican #HistoryInAfrica #AfricanStudies #MexicanHistory
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