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I'm so grateful for this awesome honor! Thank you to the Pulitizer committee & to Oxford Academic for helping me to bring COMBEE to life!

Birgitta Assheur will be reading & discussing the German translation of HOW I BECAME A TREE (WIE ICH EIN BAUM WURDE) a month from now in Frankfurt. Mittwoch 04.06.2025 19:30 Uhr Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung, Justinianstraße 5, 60322 Frankfurt am Main matthes-seitz-berlin.de/termin/birgitt…

My book, UNTIL I FIND YOU, is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. My hope all along was that more people would learn what happened in Guatemala... pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

El nuevo papa habla español, no solo por haber servido en Perú, sino porque su madre, Mildred Martinez, era española.

IBES hosted a wide range of events this spring, bringing together scholars, students, practitioners, and community leaders to confront urgent environmental issues and imagine actionable solutions. Revisit some of the key moments that defined the semester: ibes.brown.edu/news/2025-05-0…

Habemus Papam! Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-born missionary and ex-bishop in Peru, has been elected pope, blending American roots, Latin American experience, and Vatican leadership. His global path and reformist vision may shape the Church’s future. britishpoles.uk/cardinal-rober…

this is absolutely nuts: ICE arrested Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, for inspecting an ICE facility theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

When so many leaders are responding to Trump with cowardice and collaboration, it’s inspiring to see Ras Baraka respond with courage, clarity, and conviction for his community. Today we rallied for his release and showed Donald Trump and ICE we won’t back down—not now, not ever.

A leader who stands for justice.

I want to write pretty things that people read and see and hear. I want to write stuff that makes people want to go outside and enjoy nature for themselves.

Thank you ASALH for helping to make me the historian I am today!

This article is one of the best I’ve read on structural adjustment/ CFA devaluation in West Africa. Thinking about this history through popular culture is very instructive and I think students would enjoy it. Great addition to any African Studies syllabus.

From Mahmoud Khalil’s letter to his newborn son 💔 “But my absence is not unique. Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. In Palestine, this pain is part of daily life.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’m exited to announced that Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Solutions for Climate Displacement is out for preoder. 🌳 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790224/g…

Check out this piece I wrote in Spectre Journal a few years back if you want to read about the Panther 21 case on the 54th anniversary of their acquittal. spectrejournal.com/revolution-is-…

LA folks! Come through on May 20th! I’m moderating a panel on behalf of the Black Central Americas (BCA) Project on the Belizean diaspora, archives, and art, featuring amazing Belizean artists, creators, and archivists from the city.

I’m thrilled to organize this event at the Library Company of Philadelphia for Juneteenth. Please consider attending. Registration is free and open to the public. support.librarycompany.org/event/juneteen…

🇲🇽 Another Claudia Sheinbaum W

Not only is the FINAL Newberry Library Borderlands and Latinx Studies Seminar of the year THIS FRIDAY in-person, but our new CFP is out and proposals are due June 6! See below for links and details ~ Hope to see you on Friday and hope to see your proposal in the pool next month!

For the people who didn’t understand how war is a reproductive rights and feminist issue. Palestinian dreams and family aspirations in embryonic form have been destroyed.