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“Swinging While I’m Singing” 'Do the Right Thing and “Fight the Power” became rallying cries for a generation of post-civil-rights-era Black Americans, who were not only speaking truth to power, but speaking back to Blackness.' #BlackMusicMonth aaihs.org/swinging-while…

"Berta, Berta" from August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' (1995) with Charles S. Dutton, the late Carl Gordon, the late Lou Myers, and Courtney Vance. #BlackMusicMonth

'Mayfield’s soundtracks for Superfly, Claudine, Let’s Do It Again and Sparkle, not only established the format as a viable artistic platform but they also align with the most important work of his career as a solo artist and producer.' #BlackMusicMonth medium.com/@tnimixtape/be…

.Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Dr. Vanessa Valdés to discuss her book, 'Diasporic Blackness The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg' (SUNY Press, 2017) #Schomburg100 youtube.com/watch?v=FZUHgV…

Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero bbc.com/reel/video/p0b…

Fifty-One Languages, but When Does English Enter the Picture? Educators and parents in Ethiopia agree that students should learn English in school. But when should instruction in that second (third, fourth) language begin? daily.jstor.org/fifty-one-lang…

Faculty Committee Completes Review of Duke University Policy on Academic Freedom Report recommends raising visibility and understanding of protections for faculty today.duke.edu/2025/06/facult…

Behind the controversy over DeSantis' involvement in FAMU president search youtube.com/watch?v=BgrO8O…

"The chair spoke to notions of identity and community that felt new and empowering at the time and were stoked by one of the most indelible photographs of the 20th century." nytimes.com/2025/06/18/rea…

5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. thenation.com/article/activi…

"Most of the new transfers plan to pursue degrees in the arts, humanities and interpretive social sciences, a statistic that resulted from targeted recruitment efforts from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Trinity College at Duke." dukechronicle.com/article/2025/0…

Kimberlé Crenshaw explains what everyone needs to know about the anti-woke movement | The Emancipator youtube.com/watch?v=WolLO_…

How Ohio Design Firm Moody Nolan Remembers Founder Curtis Moody Moody Nolan CEO Jonathan Moody remembers his father, Curtis Moody, and how he built the largest Black-owned design firm in the US bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Toni Morrison’s Democracy of Vision | Michael Ondaatje | The New York Review of Books (2019) When has a voice been this intimate, and versatile? Affectionate, far-reaching, self-aware, and also severe, dismissive of fools? nybooks.com/online/2019/12…

i plan to teach a course on (some of the) books morrison edited. i look forward to thinking more about (and with) williams’s approach to morrison’s random house years.

Why aren’t great Black thinkers called philosophers? 'Philosophy has a race problem. Less than 2% of members of the American Philosophical Association are Black. This exclusion is harming us all.' sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

A former plantation becomes a space for healing, art and reparative history npr.org/sections/the-p…

'In one of Beuford Smith's final interviews before his 2025 passing, the iconic Brooklyn photographer looks back on a lifetime of flipping the script on how Black life was captured—and who got to do the capturing.' youtube.com/watch?v=MVm8XR…

A Northeast Ohio legend. Represented the region so well. Really showed how we get down.