Teaching today:

Wheatley poems by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Eve L. Ewing used to go by wikipedia brown

Paule Marshall, “Reena”

I am proud to announce I have won the AERA 2024 Outstanding Book Award. I am elated to receive this tremendous acknowledgment from my colleagues.

This Friday my new play 'The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body' begins its rolling world premiere@VORTEXonManor before heading to Pyramid Theatre in June and the@LHTSF In September. It's a love letter to Black women and those who love us. Come thru!

#blackfeministguide

Postcard from Toni Cade Bambara, circa 1985, addressed to Sister Debbie McDowell, asking, “Did I remember to turn heater off in guest room? Oops”

FINISHED! It took 40 days n 40 nights but proud I seen all 800 pages through. A brilliantly layered story expounding on the depth of black souls in america. So many quotes to reference; listing them all will do no justice. 10/10 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers #LoveSongsofWEBDuBois

A few weeks back Mike spoke w/the Pine Island, MN community about his book, Population: 485, which was this year’s choice for the “One Town One Title” series. The folks at the Zumbrota News Record wrote about the event.

You can read the story here: tinyurl.com/34usav3c

mississippitoday.org/2024/03/19/goo…

Signed a contract for Oceans of Tears: The French Trade in Enslaved Africans (provisional title) with Cambridge University Press today. Coming your way at some point! Glad to be working again with dearest Cecelia Cancellaro #slaveryarchive

Academia is hard. We're encouraged to be impersonal and disconnected. But, sometimes, we meet our people, people who rock with us, respect us as people and not just as colleagues, people who are real-life homies.

Thank you Periloux C. Peay and dr. jordie davies for making this work easier.

Tressie McMillan Cottom gave a brilliant (and beautiful) lecture on “Beauty,” followed by an equally brilliant Q & A session. The supple workings of her minds—what a wonder to behold!! I was ordered to take a picture with her and I happily obliged.

Installed in my seat to hear the fabulous Tressie McMillan Cottom, the guest of Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality Department. I have admired her work and her mind for years.

I'm so thrilled with Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation's comments on our Year 8 ekphrastic poetry, and so proud of how our students responded to by Roger Robinson's poem and another by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers about the Dido Belle portrait, as well as a selection of paintings from interactive.britishart.yale.edu/slavery-and-po…

DiosMioMD Dr. Briana Barner is teaching the #BlackPodClass. Weight loss should be a side effect, not a goal. Your attitude is outdated and ineffective. Focusing on building a better relationship with my body, focusing on getting moving in ways I CAN has done FAR MORE for the number on the scale than focusing on the number on the scale.

As we prepare to celebrate our 84th anniversary tomorrow, we honor the brilliant women who've maintained LDF's legacy and mission to advance racial justice.

⭐ Janai Nelson
⭐ Tona Boyd
⭐ Sherrilyn Ifill
⭐ Elaine Jones

#WomensHistoryMonth

I’m not even arguing, DO NOT COME FOR ME, but the Biden abstainers are ready for Trump and clear on what’s coming? (I’ve accepted this outcome and am bracing with horror.)

It's official! My first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, is real and out in the world. I'm delighted to share this project with you all via OUP History. You can get 30% with the code AAFLYG6 through Friday, 3/20, here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

I love us so much

It was great to join Ina Fried today on stage at #AxiosWNS for a spirited discussion of AI, democracy, tech accountability, and tech regulation. And also for more conversation in the green room. You can watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=oa195N…

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to write this profile on Regina King for the April cover of Harper’s BAZAAR
Regina’s Resolve:
Regina King on learning to live with loss, the legacy of Shirley Chisholm, and finding a way forward

harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-t…