School bus drops off student, I’m told by a neighbor from Sophie B. Wright, who then has to wade through water to get home FOX 8 New Orleans

📢 Applications are now open for our 2024/25 Black Women's History Series Incubator 📢 Selected applicants will receive feedback on their work-in-progress from series editors Talitha LeFlouria, Ashley D. Farmer, & @DainaRameyBerry. Learn more and apply here: uncpress.org/black-womens-h…

White male: White men can no longer find jobs in academia. Academia:

It's Day 1! Get your Book Club on! Hoping the 44K #WinWithBlackWomen Zoom attendees enjoy learning even more about Black women's powerful political impact. (I was one of the 44K!)

"An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ years, showing how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country." Cite Black Women. #ABWH100days #WinWithBlackWomen

Emmett Till was born on this day, 1941. He would have been 83 if not for the violence enacted against him. He was just 14 when he was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. It is vital to honor his memory. See comments for some important links exploring his legacy.

"The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power — and how it transformed America." Suggest a work for ABWH Truth to feature: bit.ly/ABWH100Days Cite Black Women. #WinWithBlackWomen #ABWH100Days

“Deeply researched, elegantly written, and boldly argued, Subversive Habits is a brilliant excavation of the long political history of Black nuns. This is extraordinary scholarship that is as accessible as it is groundbreaking and illuminating.” #ABWH100Days Cite Black Women.

"This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical and practical framework for new paradigms in African American women's history. . . . All Black politicians should read and discuss this unique and brilliant book. Many lessons can be learned." —Philadelphia New Observer

"portrait of a woman whose life reveals the contradictions @ heart o/t Am founding: men like Washington fought for liberty for themselves even as they kept people like Ona Staines in bondage. There is no way to really know the Washingtons without knowing this story." #ABWH100Days

"in a biography widely praised for its impeccable research and its compelling narrative, Harriet Tubman is revealed for the first time as a singular and complex character, a woman who defied simple categorization." #abwh100days

"helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America." — Julian Bond #ABWH100Days Cite Black Women. #WinWithBlackWomen

"Can I pet that dog?" #HOTD #HouseOfTheDragon #DemDragons

"No one who heard her speak ever forgot Sojourner Truth, the power & pathos of her voice, & the intelligence of her message. No one who reads Painter's groundbreaking biography will forget this landmark figure and the story of her courageous life." Cite Black Women. #ABWH100Days

"This innovative, thoroughly researched, & captivating book offers a stunning portrait of the personal & pol lives of a dynamic group of radical Black women activists. ...powerfully unveils how these women agitated for Blk liberation on local, natl, & intl levels." #ABWH100days

Still time to submit for my inimitable colleague Corey Madison Southern Cultures special issue "The Hip Hop South" by 8/19. Get details at southerncultures.org/cfp-hip-hop/

On efficient womanhood: "This form of activism sanctioned the public leadership of qualified men while women scripted an agenda in word and deed that combined their gender concerns with their nationalist goals" (559)

I am fascinated by the Natl Negro Housewives League, and I learned so much from this ABWH Truth 2021 Letitia Woods Brown Article prize-winning essay from @KendraDBoyd. Cite Black Women. #ABWH100Days

"The The Diaspora Solidarities Lab is a hub for Black feminist modes of academic and community partnership and mutual aid for the study of technologies of diaspora and solidarity." #ABWH100Days

See the CFP at abwhconference.org #ABWH2024 #ABWHFuture