Meeting trailblazing Black Power scholars such as Dr. Rhonda Williams Donna Murch Ashley D. Farmer @HistoryBrian Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine at this amazing conference organized by Prof. Simon Wendt & his team. Thanks for the invite! black-power-conference.de

Neuer Blick auf die Black-Power-Bewegung – Am Wochenende fand Goethe-Universität eine von der Gerda Henkel Stiftung unterstützte Tagung zur Geschichte von #BlackPower statt. Der Deutschlandfunk sprach mit Organisator Prof. Simon Wendt: deutschlandfunk.de/black-power-mo…

¿Quiénes salieron a protestar el #11J? “La mayoría afrodescendientes, gente de barrio”, cuenta la periodista Mel Herrera en su crónica «Sin gaceñiga no hay revolución». Abrimos hilo para recordar sus impresiones de ese día ⬇️

Honored & really hype to be in the brilliant company of @ProfClealand @KCorinealdi Josefina Baez I've never been to Maine before always heard how purrrttty it is in the Fall. Thank you Lindsay Mayka 🦞 for gathering us all. #HemisphericBlackness #AmbasBlackAmericas #BlackLatinxAmericas

This forum was a dream come true! Thanks to AAIHS Black Perspectives and to the contributors: Laura Correa Ochoa, Bryce Henson, dr. darius, Jasmine Mitchell, João Gabriel Rabello Sodré, Vítor Antunes, Cassie Osei is Writing a Book, and Steph Reist. I've learned so much from each essay & others will too!

forum for inter-american research (fiar) is an electronic #OpenAccess journal (👉interamerica.de ) But who could resist this cover design? Matti Steinitz and @CIAS_Bielefeld donated the printed special edition with all issues published since 2008 to the IAI . Thank you!

I appreciate the invite from our colleagues Uni Graz/University of Graz to this year´s Summer School where I will be sharing the stage with Hip-Hop scholar Murray Forman (Northeastern U.) to talk about "Resistance from the Margins". Send your applications by February 25th!

Thanks to Kim Dankoor (Utrecht), Marcel Hartwig (Siegen) and Steffen Wöll (Leipzig) for joining the panel on Popular Music and Transnational Black Freedom Struggles I chaired with Wilfried Raussert @ "American Soundscapes" #dgfa24. Great conversation!

On my way to Cartagena for an Afro-Latin American Studies conference where I´ll be chairing the symposium "Paisajes sonoros pan-afroamericanos" on the meanings of music for Afro-diasporic liberation struggles in the Americas. enestudiosafrolatinoamericanos.com

The bilingual dossier on "Popular Music & Black Transnationalism in the Americas" I edited with Juan Andrés Suárez is out, feat articles on Calypso, Bomba, Dub, Bullerengue, Hip-Hop et al. (free download)! Gracias a lxs autores y Silvia Valero Universidad de Cartagena ! revistas.unicartagena.edu.co/index.php/Pers…

Mañana moderaré esta conversación entre Raquel Barreto (Brasil) e Yvette Modestin Yvette Modestin (Panama) sobre "Afrofeminismo, arte y resistencia." El evento es una colaboración entre el ciclo de conferencias SUR y el coloquio de @CIAS_Bielefeld. uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/69690903293?…

New deadline for proposals: October 15!

Join us at UNAM! New submission deadline for proposals: October 15.

Biennial Congress of our International Association of Inter-American Studies UNAM was a success thanks to keynote speaker @KCorinealdi, my friends from Mesa 3 Anne Garland Mahler, Andrés Espinoza, Dianne Violeta Mausfeld & and our hosts from CISAN UNAM!

My book on the meanings of Soul music between Spanish Harlem, Black Rio and Panama is out! A big shout out to the protagonists who shared their experiences with me. This book is dedicated to you! degruyter.com/.../doi/10.151…

"Hemispheric Soulscapes" on tour! Join me for one of these book talks if you live in the Boston, D.C., Philadelphia or NYC areas or spread the word among your friends who do... Thnx to the lovely people at Suffolk University Bryn Mawr College Howard University and Centro PR for having me!