research post 2026-01-16

When they show you who they are, believe them

Jessica Marie Johnson

Jan 16, 2026

Hard living in the reads, hard loving life in the affirmations. Get in where you fit into the fight.

Listen

“Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, accessed January 15, 2026, https://folkways.si.edu/fannie-lou-hamer/songs-my-mother-taught-me/african-american-gospel-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian.

Reads

“Governors and Intendants in New France | Patrimoines Partagés - France Amériques,” accessed January 15, 2026, https://heritage.bnf.fr/france-ameriques/en/governors-and-intendants-new-france
Hamer, Fannie Lou, “To Praise Our Bridges: An Autobiography of Mrs. Fanny Lou Hamer,” accessed January 15, 2026, https://snccdigital.org/wp-content/themes/sncc/flipbooks/mev_hamer_updated_2018/index.html?swipeboxvideo=1#page/2.
Teona Williams, “To Archive It like It Is: Alice Walker’s Autobiography Project and the Preservation of Black Women’s History in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, 1968–1970,” Journal of Historical Geography 90 (December 2025): 40–48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.001
Lauren Klein et al., “Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research,” arXiv:2502.19190, preprint, arXiv, January 12, 2026, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.19190.
“An Open Classroom on New Orleans Culture: The Inside of Good Luck, Mona Lisa Saloy,” OER Commons, accessed January 16, 2026, https://oercommons.org/courses/an-open-classroom-on-new-orleans-culture-the-inside-of-good-luck-mona-lisa-saloy.
“Lewis Miller’s Virginia Slavery Drawings,” Encyclopedia Virginia, n.d., accessed January 16, 2026, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/lewis-millers-virginia-slavery-drawings/.
Marian Crenshaw Austin, “Family Finally Found: The Womack Plantation Ledger, Butler County, Alabama,” Alabama Review (Montgomery, United States) 78, no. 1 (2025): 16–39.