Does America Still Care About Authors? Once upon a time, writers were celebrities; now, the role of the public intellectual has gone up in smoke. For one novelist, a glamorous trip to France showed what literary life back home could be like esquire.com/entertainment/…

You know, academic organizations don’t need to have conferences every year.

“Some Black Americans are reclaiming antebellum estates as part of their family legacy, reflecting the power and possibility of these historic sites.” Smithsonian Magazine smithsonianmag.com/history/why-de…

Guys! My latest for CNN... The question remains: Where can Black folks go? Where can we be and belong? Check it out along with my new book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Seal Press Wellesley College Basic Books

This Saturday July 20, 2024 is the date in Parable of the Sower when the story begins. #bydhttmwfi

President Biden says he’s dropping out of presidential race.

Black women realizing that we have another election to carry on our backs

Single term presidents who did not seek reelection ❌🗳️: Lyndon B. Johnson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, and now Joe Biden. britannica.com/story/have-any…

Audre Lorde has a poem, "Equal Opportunity," that I cite often in the face of Black Women building and sustaining the US empire. I plan to quote it into oblivion while y'all piss me off til election day, I'm sure. Here is the opening and closing of the poem.

So excited! The #WeRefuse audio book is out with a new cover design by the amazing Jibola Fagbamiye! His design is also on my merch, so head on over to kelliecarterjackson.com/store to get a Tshirt, mug, etc! 2) The print version of NYT review came out in Sunday's paper! Seal Press

It has always been so, but in these next four months it will be doubly critical to find your people, to cling to them for dear life and well-being.

first words Sonya Massey said at her front door were “don’t hurt me” she was told “why would we hurt you, you called us” when have those words meant anything when your black and woman in this country when do those words protect you from not being murdered in your kitchen,

Texas ACLU “ found that overall, more than 80% of surveyed districts had vague hair policies that can disproportionately punish Black students and that 7% of those dress codes banned or restricted hair textures and styles associated with race” aclutx.org/en/press-relea…

"@RobertTurpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport’s early days through the cementing of Jim Crow laws...Black cyclists used the bicycle not only as a vehicle but as a means of social mobility..." press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087…

Why don't you see more James Baldwin works on the big screen?npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-…

What is your hair story? Jasmine Nichole Cobb on the Art and Texture of Black Hair Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=7AHKls…

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