Every July 4, I take time to read and reflect on Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" I'll share some passages/remarks here, when his words, now 168 years old, are just as relevant as ever. thenation.com/article/archiv…

Belatedly, I didn't watch as many of the Oscar movies as I normally do, but The Sound of Metal was one of the best pieces of art about addiction I've ever seen. Made the Serenity Prayer click in a way it never had before after years of meditation. Can't recommend highly enough.

Hope folks realize that a part of the reason the Right pounced on “woke” and now use it as a meaningless catch-all pejorative is because folks on the Left stripped it from its context in the Black experience, and made it mean “excessive social awareness.” It didn’t mean that.

“The facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed.” W.E.B. Du Bois — The Propaganda of History

#AcademicJob Alert: one-year Visiting Assistant Professor with expertise in #AfricanAmericanhistory at Lehigh University. This position carries a 3/3 teaching load. #twitterstorians h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

I own all three of these records and can confirm they rule.

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the MOVE Bombing. Raymond Africa (50) John Africa (44) Conrad Africa (36) Rhonda Africa (30) Frank Africa (26) Theresa Africa (26) Katricia “Tree” Africa (14) Zanetta “Netta” Africa (13) Phil Africa (12) Delisha Africa (12) Tomaso Africa (9)

Bamboozled is top 3 Spike for me, and the absolute best moment is the Mooney vignette, practically a short film within the film. Effortlessly hilarious. One of the all time greats. Rest easy. youtu.be/f3Gtn9yKV9I

This is disqualifying...another telling failure. We’re at the point where we can and should reframe these errors as willful—by both the writers themselves and by the paper refusing to hire a staff that wouldn’t let this happen?

Topic for your brainstorm: Accept no substitutes - racial justice will never happen through co-opting the labor of women of color and erasing student activism ✊🏽📢#WeareLehigh

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New article from me, on the tactics (and limits) of white allyship during Portland BLM protests in 2020 -- and how media complicates things further. HT @brcreech for helping me get much better at all this. Would love your thoughts, Christopher David! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

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New Pub alert -- 'The music business case for diversity: Multiculturalism, pop music and the 1990s,' in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS)! Looked at the role of "multiculturalism" in how the music biz marketed (and the world received) Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston & Santana journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…