Excited to share work from my forthcoming book, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (April 2025), at @WUSTL today as guest speaker for the Annual Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Fall Symposium!

Today for the first time, I held a physical copy of my book in my hands. *Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice* is out in the world. This feeling is indescribable. I hope that it may be a useful offering to think with. Here's towards thinking, in chorus.

I’ll play.

Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus joins the podcast to talk about literary studies, popular Black literature, and 90s culture as critical to new work in Black Studies. Fantastic conversation, listen: open.spotify.com/episode/7oHjiy…

History at work! Bouie v. Columbia. Barr v. Columbia. 60 years ago! Justice is served today! Center for Civil Rights History & Research Columbia SC 63 southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2024-1…

Still reeling and reflecting on this rich gathering of Civil Rights & Black Freedom Movement veterans, scholars, K-12 educators, museum professionals, preservationists, photographers & public history folx! Center for Civil Rights History & Research is on it!

Two civil rights protesters arrested after they sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina in 1960 finally have their arrest records cleared apnews.com/article/civil-…

Terrefe was the first person we brought to a virtual speaker series in critical Black studies in 2021 and she blew our minds in the best way. If you are committed to Black radical thought in any way I encourage you to sit w/ her timeless questions & propositions below.

Moving on over to this space. Looking forward to smtg better or different at least. This platform been feeling too busted for a min. but I’m too grateful for all the connections made, laughs and knowledge shared.

You can read Selamawit D. Terrefe’s obituary here: sdterrefe.com/selamawitterre… 🕊️

Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on "Black Patience" and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Chicago historian Shermann "Dilla" Thomas will be the keynote speaker for Northwestern's 2025 MLK Commemoration. Shermann Dilla Thomas will be joined in conversation by Northwestern Medill's Natalie Y Moore on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/1…

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots npr.org/sections/shots…

2024 Bathroom Selfie Winner.

The records of the Institute of the Black World, an Atlanta-based think tank focused on Black scholarship and politics, are now available to explore in our Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. #SchomburgCenter ow.ly/c7eQ50UwLQZ

Free PDF 📚: Some of Us Did NOT Die: New & Selected Essays by June Jordan Link 🔗: drive.google.com/file/d/1d-VI8o… Click (alt) for alt text + Book Summary 📖

My undergrad African American Studies Program in Alabama “celebrated” its 25th yr in existence last week and I am the only person to earn a PhD in the field. Since organizing w/ students in 2013 as an adjunct challenging structural neglect I’ve been ostracized & never welcome.