So excited for this roundtable with fatoumata, lil miss kryptolude, & LaVelle Ridley, PhD ✨

Registration link:
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Both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge have been shut down due to a Pro-Palestinian protest. Demonstrators have blocked the southbound direction of Highway 101. This is the second protest causing major back-ups on Bay Area roadways, the demonstration has blocked northbound…

I was excited to learn that my book Black Patience won the 2024 College Language Association Book Award! CLA was the first academic conference I presented at as an undergrad. So this was special. Thanks @clascholars ! NYU Press

the Blackecologies Zine is an open resource containing sixty-six pages of essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, experimental field notes, and original art globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.

my 60-ish second acceptance speech for the 2024 AERA Outstanding Book Award

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The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at UChicagoPress.

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
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Highlight of New Orleans always is the brilliant kind and generous Courtney Bryan.

Get you friends that will tell you when you got a booger.

I just had a crawfish pie with plenty hot sauce and honey I am in food bliss.

In one of the proudest moments of my career, I returned home to write about Mary Allen College, the first college for black women in Texas. Please read and if you can, donate to its restoration efforts.

texasmonthly.com/being-texan/ma…

🎉We are so excited to welcome Allison Mitchell (AlliMitch) and Hannah Hicks as our next postdoctoral scholars! Allison will be the Richards Center and Penn State Africana Research Center postdoc in African American history and Hannah will be the Richards Center postdoc in the Civil War Era.🎉

Fear-mongering should never be weaponized as a tactic or strategy to “inspire” voter participation among young folks & communities of color… that is not democracy.

The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers was vandalized this morning, the day of Eid Al-Fitr—windows smashed, equipment destroyed, artwork smashed, Quran desecrated, & a Palestinian flag stolen.

We will hold press conference tomorrow, Th 4/11 at 11am ET.

abc7ny.com/center-for-isl…

Hamas says killing of chief’s family Israeli attempt to derail truce talks aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…