There are two traditions of anti-imperialism in the U.S,; the racist, irredentist tradition including John C Calhoun and Ron Paul, and the revolutionary, socialist tradition including DuBois, SDS, MLK., the Am League Against War & Fascism....They have nothing in common 1/2

MLA CFP Alert: The Forum on Global Anglophone Literature seeks papers for a panel on "Digitality, Postcoloniality, Globality" (deadline Mar. 17). Details below! mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webpr…

The Jan/Feb 2023 issue of #ReviewsInDH is here, kicking off our 4th year of publication. @jenguiliano & I are not gonna lie: the last couple of months have been challenging for our team, from 3/5ths of us getting covid to family challenges. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v3-n1-2

*Keys to the Archive, an archival collection focusing on the works of Ernest J. Gaines, directed by David Squires, and reviewed by @AdrianWisnicki reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/keys-to-th… #ReviewsInDH

I have never talked about the weather as much as I have with Irish cabdrivers these last few weeks, so it's fitting I come home to find this!

"Data Worlds," the first issue of CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ (1:1-2), a new interdisciplinary journal edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, is now available and freely available in its entirety for a limited time: ow.ly/F3vH50PRXmN

OTD 2000, Gwendolyn Brooks, first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, passed away. Brooks was named poet laureate for the state of Illinois and the first black woman appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.

Asking all my friends at private colleges & universities to repost & urge their followers to join them in signing this petition calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to fund SUNY & CUNY like the public goods they are! Her State of the State Address is next Tuesday. change.org/FundSUNYCUNYFa…

One of the quotes you won't see much of today: “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” — MLK

ICYMI: The #WeeklyRead is "'There Are Lives Here': The African and African American Cemeteries of the Bonnet Carré Spillway," by Robin McDowell and published in issue 147 of Radical History Review. Read it for free through 2/29: ow.ly/Vi1S50QuMYP #NewOrleans

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Laura Helton (Laura Helton) on the arrival of her book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series. rb.gy/d2px7b Columbia University Press

INVESTIGATION: A salary analysis of 7,735 faculty at Louisiana's public colleges & universities found that at nearly every rank at nearly every school, men are paid more than women. Piper Hutchinson explains the reasons behind gender pay gap lailluminator.com/2024/08/01/str… #HigherEducation

Just found a profound & out of print Audre Lorde interview from 1988. She's absolutely spitting philosophical wisdom on identity, voice, writing, oppression. The PDF is up on my Lorde page for your use: calebward.xyz/research/audre… 🙏🙏 to the archivists at LesbianHerstoryArchives!

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is proud to announce that the first collection of 20 interviews documented for the COVID-19 American History Project — with service and hospitality workers in New Orleans — is now available online. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/…

My interview with Salvador Lopez Rivera about Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right for the New Books Network is now available! I really enjoyed our conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/1HANg7…

With Rebecca Colesworthy, I resigned last week from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members who've proposed the org stand with colleagues in Palestine. The EC should reverse its decision to block a vote on this resolution. lithub.com/the-modern-lan…

Trump just fired Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. A complete tragedy and a scandal. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-rel…

This recent The Irish Times article highlights the importance of Ireland’s online records: irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth Narratives: loc.gov/collections/sl… Photos: