Breaking News: Faith Ringgold, a renowned artist who for decades wove Black life into quilts and children’s books, is dead at 93. nyti.ms/4aL3LkU

RIP Faith Ringgold, a dauntless and astonishingly inventive artist, activist, author, illustrator, sculptor, and children’s-book legend. The great ideas just kept coming. She was one of the signal cultural figures of our times.

Thank you The Crossroads Project Judith Weisenfeld, Theresa Thames, and other faculty and students. What a pleasure it was to be at Princeton. Thank you for hosting me and receiving me and Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts with open arms.

On Apr 18, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern, The Crossroads Project Community Stories Fellow Matthew J. Cressler (@mjcressler.bsky.social) is hosting a Religion & American Culture conversation about Religion & Comics, including The Crossroads Project Affiliate Yvonne Chireau.

Register for the Zoom: raac.iupui.edu/programs/event…

If anyone is interested in proposing a panel/roundtable for religion in early America, hit me up! #religiousstudies #amrel

This was a wonderful experience, and *Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts* is a remarkable book.

Our graduate students have organized an exciting Islamic Studies Conference for April 19 and 20 at Princeton, featuring a keynote by Professor Noah Salomon (UVA). It is free, but registration is required.

isgc.religion.princeton.edu

Mercy will be checking out the livestream of the event today. Don’t’ miss it. crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2024/re…

Today! Register for the livestream.

✨Please save the date! We're excited to announce the dates and location of #AAIHS2025 . More details coming soon.

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Just so everyone knows why people were concerned about the winners being properly acknowledged

Undefeated! #SouthCarolina

‼️ Another sadly telling work on Gaza tracks the destruction of life and all its infrastructures.
Make time to visit the platform this weekend- superb work by the Gaza team, with many student volunteers at AUB to counter genocidal erasure.

Postdoc at my place for people who would like to work with a Henry Luce Foundation funded project on religion, diversity, and democracy in the Front Range region: cu.taleo.net/careersection/…

Aftershock!

The 4.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Princeton University today just about tied with the largest recorded earthquake in New Jersey, according to geosciences professor Allan Rubin. “But there have been only a few this large in the last 300 years.”

Read more:
paw.princeton.edu/article/48-mag…

The earthquake was pretty close to us. M 4.7 - 7 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

That was frightening. #earthquake

In His Garage, an Untrained Artist Created a Work of Sublime Divinity | At the Smithsonian| Smithsonian Magazine smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

We are thrilled to support Matthew J. Cressler (@mjcressler.bsky.social)’s work on this comic focused on Judge Arthur McFarland’s life story. Marcus Jimenez’s artwork is gorgeous and our own Dr. Megan Goodwin will work her usual magic on the web design.