REGISTER NOW FOR: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Choices, Careers and Living Black History An amazing conversation on February 11 at 5pm between you betta call me Dr. Dunbar @DainaRameyBerry and P. Gabrielle Foreman, moderated by Shirley Moody-Turner! Black Women Radicals @jmjafrx syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

OTD famed Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes was born. In addition to publishing volumes of his own poetry, Hughes translated the work of writers throughout the African diaspora & the Americas, including Nicolás Guillén, whose *Cuba Libre,* he translated from the Spanish.

"Dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play ... I have tentatively chosen as a title ... a line from one of your poems ... 'a raisin in the sun' ... " Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes, 1958 in LH Papers bit.ly/2FKP6KP

REGISTER ASAP!! NEXT THURSDAY FEB. 11: Dr. Vanessa M Holden, UBuffalo Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Diversity Innovation, is hosting: "Digital Footprints: The Freedom on the Move Project." @fotmproject. booking.lib.buffalo.edu/event/7304793

My poem is accompanied by Kara Walker’s aquatint etch “no world” (2010), now housed at the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso. This poem is also an ode to the work of Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Don’t miss tonight’s discussion with U.S. Colored Troops, P. Gabrielle Foreman, & Derrick R. Spires as they discuss the Colored Conventions! Tonight, February 9th at 7pm Organizing Black Families Register here⤵️ zoom.us/j/98828596975

Next Friday's #tgiFHI talk features Jarvis C. McInnis of DukeEnglish. He focuses on TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY, an HBCU built on the site of a former plantation, and considers it as a site of renewal as well as depletion – not only of the land, but of Black ontologies. duke.is/MLL2eS

The Bluest Eye, a novel, 1970 Uncorrected proof. Presentation inscription: "From Toni Morrison - the Brownest eye." bit.ly/2sFu2kq @YCAL_JWJ

The newest book in the Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series, "Selected Writings on Race and Difference," will be out in April. You can read Paul Gilroy's introduction now for free on our website! #StuartHall ow.ly/dek550DIIMV

Starting TOMORROW, Feb. 26 at 7 PM: Literacy Partners is having a Tribute to Toni Morrison. Get ready for a Song of Solomon Marathon Reading by Margaret Atwood, Brit Bennett, and more! @deardarkness litpartners2020.org/toni-morrison #SchomburgCenter

I'm honored to serve as moderator for this powerful series "Faith and Fortitude: Stories of Black Women in Florida. The first session is tomorrow. Register today: floridahumanities.org/programs-publi…

An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online hyperallergic.com/623698/america…

If you're working on this pioneering, bold, fearless Black intellectual, journalist, emigrationist, and legal advocate, please submit! #CiteBlackWomenSunday. Share widely!

Call for Papers! “Mattering in the 19C & Beyond: US Transcendentalisms, Racism, and Repair.” 200-word abstracts due March 20: margaretfullersociety.org/call-for-paper…. Help us spread the word! #phdchat Ralph Waldo Emerson Society AALCS Recovering Women Black Women's Studies Association The Melville Society American Literature Journal

Excited for this upcoming series of discussions beginning March 31 at 5:30 pm EST and extending at the same time for every Wed. through April 28, 2021. We have keynotes by Andrea Roberts, PhD & A as well as a powerful lineup of Black artists, intellectuals, organizers & farmers

Join us tomorrow  at 3:30 p.m. for a conversation between Professors Jarvis McInnis & Derrick R. Spires to discuss Spires’ book, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States. Register at: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regist….

Next Thursday, April 8 at 6:30 PM: Join the conversation between 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize winner Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and Dr. Thavolia Glymph. The two will discuss Jones-Rogers's book, They Were Her Property. eventbrite.com/e/lapidus-cent… #SchomburgCenter

Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two – And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes Papers bit.ly/2FKP6KP

It is exciting to see our forthcoming book on Black political activism in Philadelphia featured in Temple University Press’s promotional announcement for new books in spring ‘22. Onward!

Let's diversify #DH! Application review for the #DigBlk Mellon Big Ten Pre-Doc Fellowship begins in a few weeks. APPLY NOW!👉bit.ly/big10_predocfe…