🚨The History Department at the University of Texas at El Paso invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor of History focusing on 20th and 21st century Black History. We invite applications from scholars with a wide range of interests. bit.ly/UTEP_APBlackHi…

Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion at the abrupt change and frustration at what some called the administration’s lack of efforts to maintain communication with the Latino community, which helped propel him to the presidency. to.pbs.org/4awzFTg

Headed to bluer skies follow me at Gerry Scheetz-edwards.bsky.social

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If you said he wasn’t gonna implement project 2025, you were wrong… If you said, he loves the “blacks,” you were wrong. If you said he’d only deport the “bad” ones, you were wrong. Oh and my fav, if you said he was going to reduce the cost of eggs, Boy, were you WRONG.

Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is now accepting submissions for our special issue on the 90th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’s book, Black Reconstruction in America. bit.ly/3CvqyoN

And NEH just cancelled its summer stipend fellowships. Even the hard to get, deeply underfunded NEH grants are going to be missed when they're gone. An already bare landscape of humanities research funding in the US just took another blow: neh.gov/grants/researc…

These cuts to the NEH would be devastating for people around the country - nytimes.com/2025/04/01/art… - you can contact your reps to oppose these cuts: p2a.co/DdtlGIT #twitterstorians #academictwitter

I received the following: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES NOTICE OF GRANT TERMINATION I knew it was coming, which is why I never announced that I had won the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities for my next book project. But it still hurts!

The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame announces a search for a senior scholar of Africana Studies, beginning Fall 2026…Particular areas of interest include Black feminism, Black epistemologies, and Caribbean studies. apply.interfolio.com/171257

Who needs cable when you can watch Congress for free? Senator Josh Hawley introduced his bill to ban stock trading and the room LIT up. You won’t want to miss this recap 🍿 🧵

Publicado en el 2017, el libro de Clarisa Pedrotti 💚💜 es una investigación muy bien documentada, y se deriva de su tesis de doctorado en Artes en la UNC. Agradecemos a la autora el habernos obsequiado esta publicación que pronto viajará a la Ciudad de México 🫶

The society for early transpacific studies will be meeting in June 2026 in Manila. Join us! We are accepting proposals for individual papers and panels until the end of October. #pacific

Check out the second issue of Global Black Thought !

English 👏🏾 teachers 👏🏾 and 👏🏾 librarians 👏🏾 tried 👏🏾 to 👏🏾 tell 👏🏾 y'all 👏🏾 this 👏🏾 would 👏🏾 happen.

In today’s post, we interview Dr. Ben Vinson III about his research. Dr. Vinson served as the 18th president of Howard University: "There has been a deeper appreciation for the cultural lives of Black populations throughout Latin America in the colonial period" aaihs.org/the-black-dias…

So happy to share I’m the co-winner of this year’s CLAH Bolton-Johnson prize for the best book in Latin American history. 🙏

What the FUCK are we doing. Seriously. Get me off this fucking planet.

Job Opportunity-- Dept Chair of English for UTEP for further details: utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetail….