Reminds me of José Antonio Aponte, the free Black man accused of starting the 1811-12 rebellion in Cuba. Here's the link to his library via the Digital Aponte project by Ada Ferrer & Linda M. Rodriguez (QEPD): aponte.hosting.nyu.edu/apontes-librar…

Join in us for our annual OI conference #For2026 : Virginia’s Revolutionary Histories & Beyond occurring October 24-26, 2024 in Williamsburg. Our call for proposals open through 30 April 2024. Find more here: oieahc.wm.edu/events-overvie…

This is huge!!!! Congratulations, Darius J. Young!!!!

BRACE YOURSELVES: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Paul Lovejoy and Nielson Bezerra, coming your way in January 2025 with UNC Press amazon.com/Mahommah-Gardo…

Thank you to the teams at Henry Luce Foundation and MacArthur Foundation for investing in the faculty and students Florida A&M University. I am looking forward to directing this new initiative and producing innovative scholarship and programming. Special thanks to everyone who helped make this happen at FAMU! 🐍

Finally, I can share. I am super excited to share that this week, we are launching the new Center for African and African American Studies by welcoming my brother, Dr. Jelani Favors, to campus. Special thanks to Sean Buffington for seeing the vision and making this happen.

Out now: Ashby, Halle-Mackenzie, and Jessica Marie Johnson. “Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife.” History of the Present 14, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 138–55. doi.org/10.1215/215997….

Watching Essah cross over to doctaaa was all I needed this week!!! We will see in her work the bridging of Africana, Caribbean, African and Black Studies. Bridging phenomenal afro-femme scholarship from Liberia to PR. Dr. Cozett Diaz presente! Proud sibling moment 😭

Starting my career as an archivist & historian Tamiment Library NYU, with an unruly crew of radical curators & folks who have mostly retired or passed on, taught me that every social movement needs its own cadre of documentarians, collectors, record keepers, and bookshop workers.

Congratulations to Dr. Kendra Boyd, winner of the Cheryl Wall Faculty Fellowship for 2024-25. And congrats to the other 11 winners of this new award in honor of Dr. Cheryl Wall, champion of promoting faculty diversity at Rutgers. academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/cheryl-wall-fa… #Rutgers

.Kellie Carter Jackson's WE REFUSE is “enthralling….A fascinating array of histories that highlight the ingeniousness, efficacy, and relatability of Black political maneuvering across several centuries of oppression.”—Publishers Weekly

Available June 4 ⤵️ publishersweekly.com/9781541602908

Booker T. Washington was born #OnThisDay in 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia. Washington completed his studies and worked at Hampton Institute until May 1881, when he was asked to lead the newly formed Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Learn more:
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Shirletta J. Kinchen has written a stellar treatment of Black youth in Memphis during the turbulent late sixties and beyond. Her book 'Black Power in the Bluff City' is deeply researched, compelling, and innovative. It's one of the game changers when it comes to the movement in Memphis.

I am excited to guest edit Global Black Thought's special issue on race and identity in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean deadline is 7/1/2024. Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) ABWH Truth Age of Revolutions SLAS Society for Latin American Studies ASWAD

🛬 Just landed in ATL and looking forward to my lecture and the workshop tomorrow at Emory University

#CatalinasArchive #TheSurvivalOfAPeople

PROUD SHOES FIRST BOOK FELLOWSHIP
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
Application Deadline: Friday, May 31, 2024 @ 6:00 p.m. EST

Book Workshop & Writing Retreat
#SankofaWriting
Friday, October 4, 2024 | 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. EST | Virtual paulimurraycenter.com/opportunities

Full house Howard University ❤️ to listen historian Micheal Gomez deliver The Moorland Spingarn Research Center 110th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Lecture #slaveryarchive

Today I to spoke at Prairie View A&M University on the topic of Modeling Mary McLeod Bethune’s Example of Global Citizenship in the 21st Century. I would like to thank B-Global and I applaud them on the great work that they’re doing! #pvamu

The Proud Shoes First Book Fellowship committee invites applications from scholars who are developing their first full academic book manuscript in history, social justice, politics, law, race, gender, and sexuality studies or related fields.

paulimurraycenter.com/opportunities?…