‼️Upcoming graduate student event‼️(1/2) On Sept. 22 at 3 PM, the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies will host their first event of the semester: a virtual archive tour of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture's Collection.

This human and research are fire! Go Doc, Go! "Locked In: Intimacy, Incarceration, and HIV/AIDS in the Black Gay Arts Movement During the Long 1980s.”

“Melanated and unapologetically PhinisheD!” Doctoral Black Queer Joy

🤝GET ACQUAINTED! Day 2🤝 Meet Kyra March, a first year PhD student from Darlington, South Carolina. Her scholarly interests include African American women's history during the Civil War, Gullah Geechee culture, questions around public memory, and public history.

🤝GET ACQUAINTED: Day 5🤝 Meet Sydney Smith! Her research interests include 20thC Black feminism, motherhood, and Black women’s autobiographical writing. Sydney explores Black women’s mothering experiences and political thought during late-20thC Black liberation movements.

🤝GET ACQUAINTED: Day 11🤝 Meet Bea Pearson! Coming to us from South Jersey, Bea utilizes Black feminist public humanities methodologies to research Black women's early American archival (after)lives.

It's #JuliaChinn's born day! "The Vice President’s Black Wife" is officially out!! Come celebrate tonight at Morgenstern's in Btown. I can't wait to introduce u to my girl! #pubday #books #BooksWorthReading #bookstoread Pande Literary Pande Lecture Management Sonya Bonczek @DGershenowitz

For today’s Saturday Showcase, we celebrate ABWH’s National Membership Director, Le'Trice 'Black Lady Nerd'Donaldson 👓! Donaldson’s University of Akron lecture, “Soldier, Diplomat, and Civil Rights Leader Charles Young,” recently aired on American History TV! Congratulations! c-span.org/video/?530877-…

I’m beyond grateful and honored to receive the Michael J. Hogan Foreign Language Fellowship, allowing me the funds to pursue a language intensive in Tokyo this summer. I am looking forward to continued participation and collaboration with SHAFR Historians!

The full conference program for "Reclaiming Black Women's Lives," a two-day symposium this week at Rutgers in honor of Dr. Deborah Gray White: history.rutgers.edu/news-events/20…

Deborah Gray White Endowed Dissertation Completion Fund "The fund honors the work of Professor White, a pioneer in the field of African American women’s history, by supporting dissertation completion fellowships for students in African American history." give.rutgersfoundation.org/white-endowed-…

Learn about the violence of urban residential exclusion and financial exploitation of Black Americans from Sarah Coffman, Rutgers History Department student. As she states, "the Black present is intimately tied to the past", and it's important to understand this past to know how we got here.

🎉Congratulations 🎉to 3rd year PhD student A.J. Boyd, who recently won the Dr. Kristine Harper Research Grant at FSU Libraries! AJ's research centers the Black women who wore the patch of Athena in World War II as members of the first class of women US soldiers. (1/2)

S/O to my RU homie, A.J. Boyd, who won a research grant to support her dissertation research! You know how we do!!!!

I also couldn’t do this without you two!

Congratulations to RU-NB history PhD candidate Sarah Coffman, who recently won the department John Whiteclay Chambers II Oral History Graduate Student Fellowship Award!

With the DNC this week and Kamala Harris' historic nomination, I wrote a little about the longer history of Black sorority women mobilizing around US presidential elections and US politics for Time's Made By History.

Susan Sontag "Against Interpretation" (1964)