Sociologist, organizer, dad joker
Joined July 2009
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Jun 12
In light of other platforms being down, I'm announcing the launch of Juggalocial, a new way to connect with other clowns.
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May 8
“I ain’t reading all that,” and it’s just a stop sign at a busy intersection.
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May 7
"scheduled"? They scheduled getting ransomware attacked during finals week? That seems like poor planning.
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Apr 4
A van pulled up next to me and it just said “ALWAYS SERVING” on the side, and I was like girl, I know that’s right.
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Mar 26
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades of ketchup happen.
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Feb 25
I wrote a chapter with the WSSU archivist about Silver Hill. If you'd like to learn more than what the City shares every February, check it out: link.springer.com/content/pd…
Feb 25
They love to celebrate the Black communities they actively worked to destroy.
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Feb 25
They love to celebrate the Black communities they actively worked to destroy.
Did you know there is an African American cemetery in the Buena Vista neighborhood? It’s called Silver Hill Cemetery.
Happy Black History Month! Thank you to the Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission for sharing this information.
🔗 Learn more: cityofws.org/DocumentCenter/…
ALT Silver Hill Cemetery historic sign.
ALT Old map of Silver Hill in Winston-Salem.
ALT Wooded area.
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Feb 25
Antioch Primitive Baptist Church, which had anchored Silver Hill since the 1880s, burned down on Easter Monday, 1942. Six years later, the Twin City Sentinel reported on a cross burning in the neighborhood.
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Feb 25
Despite annexing the neighborhood in 1920, the City refused to provide running water and sewer service to Silver Hill until they got WPA funds to pay for it in 1938. They refused to pave the streets of Silver Hill until after the last Black family moved out in the 1970s.
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Jan 26
Operators of snow plows and salt trucks are to be greeted as liberators.
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