UCL STRIKE SOLIDARITY SCREENING Weds 30 NOV, 4-5pm Join us for an online screening of the short doc #PrecarityStory (2020) followed by a Q & A with SELCS-CMII PhD student, and film co-director, Lorena Cervera DM me for Zoom details UCU UCL-UCU Stop the Destruction of Higher Education #UCUstrike #ucurising

someone called me an activist at uni and I had to correct them because I am not. my ideas may be useful, but there are true activists and organisers out there and we need to support them.

@shamikalashawn 🗓️ Monday, April 3rd from 4-5 pm Black Digital Archives Panel Discussion This event will bring together archivists from the Black Fashion Canada Database and Margaret Walker Center to discuss archiving Black history. Get your tickets: tinyurl.com/5x29hdw4 The Diversity Working Group U of T Black Research Network Jackson State U.

On the anniversary of Walter Rodney's assassination, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is free to download. “If Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.” — Angela Davis

If you’re a writer of African or African Caribbean heritage in Britain, over 35 & need extra financial support to finish a literary work the Black Writers’ Guild’s Mary Prince Award provides grants and is open for applicants. For details: theblackwritersguild.com

Grateful to have been involved with this amazing project! ❤️

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Hey! The small transcription and closed caption biz I run, Academic Audio Transcription Ltd, needs your help. We’re facing our leanest summer since incorporation in 2017 due to a confluence of academic crisis, and twitter falling apart, despite investing more than ever in marketing & comms 🧵

FYI (also, please ignore my grinning face in this post...I certainly am, lol): brittlepaper.com/2023/07/submit…

✅  9,000 signatures achieved! 🎓 SILENCE is no protection! 📝  SIGN the Petition! ➡️ change.org/p/stop-univers… ℹ  The 'MRes History of Africa & the African Diaspora' University of Chichester led by the acclaimed Professor Hakim Adi is at risk. 🖋 Add your support today. Get us to 10k! Young Historians Project

⚡ Live Today ⚡ 🌍 'Defending the History of Africa and the African Diaspora'. 🖥  Online Seminar. 🎤  Professor Hakim Adi. 🗓  Monday, 7 August 2023. 🌐  1200-1330 EST / 1700-1830 BST / 1800-1930 SAST. ➡️:tinyurl.com/HakimAdiSeminar. 🇿🇦 University of Johannesburg 📚 Young Historians Project.

For any librarian who identifies as female and Black & is based in a UK library 🇬🇧 I am currently (with assistance from Natasha Howard FCLIP ) writing a book chapter for the forthcoming book “Thin Skinned,” Unappreciated, and Overworked: Experiences and Impacts of Microaggressions in the

Breaking: University of Chichester makes Professor Hakim Adi redundant. This is a disgraceful outcome, and leaves many African heritage postgrad students without a qualified supervisor and unsure of their future at the university historymatters.online/post/chicheste…

Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. If you are able to, share this video widely.

Public reminder for the end of #blackhistorymonth2023 in 2020 UCL committed to hiring 50 Black academics over next 3 years later revised to 5 years I've written to Provost Michael Spence & new Pro Vice Provost of EDI Alison Koslowski to remind them ucl.ac.uk/equality-diver…

Stories from Black, Asian and Arab communities you shouldn’t have missed this week 🧵

Our aim is to help universities in Gaza resume their activities. We're setting up a worldwide team of university professors, in all subjects, ready to teach Gazan students online. We just started teaching this week!