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P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Senior #slavery scholars crowdsourced a short document called “Writing about Slavery/Teaching about Slavery.” If you add it to your syllabus, please share the discussions it raises. #twitterstorians #blktwitterstorians #teachinghistory #slaveryarchive

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@profgabrielle

1 year

Under DeSantis’s new laws, Floridians may never learn there was once a Black Superintendent of Schools in Florida who was so forceful in his advocacy for civil and educational rights, that he had to sleep armed in his attic to ward off attacks from the KKK. Meet Jonathan Gibbs.

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As the first Black superintendent of schools, Jonathan Gibbs supervised every county’s standard of education and established uniform textbooks across Florida. I hope his ghost is haunting Ron DeSantasis and Florida state legistlators who undermine and attack public education.

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Not sure who needs to hear this: You are not overwhelmed. You are overextended.

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So the Dean/Chair/Provost asks you to sit on the Diversity/Equity taskforce (a thread). You: What can you take off my plate to make this possible? Repeat if nec. Right answer: a course release. Wrong answer: anything that has to do with “expertise,” and “appreciation.”

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What an iconic photo of Angela Davis by Yalonda M. James. They shut down 28 ports y’all.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

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Civil rights icon Angela Davis pumps her fist during a Juneteenth protest against police brutality as longshoremen shut down the Port of Oakland and 28 other ports along the west coast on Friday. Story:

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Mom fell, broke a hip + can’t be alone at home. So I’m driving to chicago tomorrow. Now she’s been directly exposed to Covid; her house isn’t big enough for us to quarantine. Also it’s been a year of caretaking + my brain stopped working weeks ago. Prayers please.

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UNC had about 622 tenured full professors in 2019, federal data show. Of them, eight were Black women.

Pressure builds on UNC board to grant tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones

An outcry erupted last week after news emerged that the Pulitzer Prize winner had not been awarded tenure as she prepares to join the journalism faculty at Chapel Hill.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@profgabrielle

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It's such an honor to work in concert with so many of the stellar historians, activists, and cultural workers, my siblings and family in the work of African American justice making, art, and organizing. Congrats to the #MacFellow . Strength and joy to all of us doing the work.

MacArthur Foundation

@macfound

2 years

Literary Historian and Digital Humanist @profgabrielle sparks inquiry into 19th-century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project. Learn more about the 2022 MacArthur Fellow #MacFellow

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4 years

Actual language from a “Talking/Teaching/Writing about Slavery” guide I curated got thousands of RTs/likes today without citation. I can’t say how much I 🧡 the #CiteBlackWomen hashtag + commitment to making sure our labor/time/expertise is acknowledged.

Hannah Hart

@harto

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Here is something I learned today. Wow.

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@profgabrielle

6 years

Evelyn Higginbotham becomes the 1st (!) Black chair of History at Harvard. “I am chair of the department from which W.E.B. Du Bois received his PhD in 1895” and Carter G. Woodson received his PhD in 1912. #Blktwitterstorians #twitterstorians

Harvard History Professor Makes History

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s appointment as the first African-American chair of the Department of History at Harvard University is significant, but not for the reasons most would expect.

www.diverseeducation.com

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In the NY Slave Revolt of 1712, four women were tried as leaders: Amba, Lilly, Sarah, and Abigail. Erased frm history, their stories are told in this vivid #Afrofuturist graphic novel by ⁦ @WakeRevolt ⁩ #citeblackwomen #sayhername #blackhistory

An Afrofuturist Graphic Novel Revives the Lost Histories of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Erased from history books, the stories and roles of women in slave revolts will now be told in vivid form by Rebecca Hall.

hyperallergic.com

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Despite the mistakes, this is a chilling political win for forces whose agendas had nothing to do with the issues they weaponized to oust Claudine Gay.

Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History | News | The Harvard...

Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History | News | The Harvard Crimson

www.thecrimson.com

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As the first Black superintendent of schools, Jonathan Gibbs supervised every county’s standard of education and established uniform textbooks across Florida. I hope his ghost is haunting Ron DeSantasis and Florida state legistlators who undermine and attack public education.

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”Let’s not assume that until the Capitol riot the United States was a well-functioning democracy” writes Eric Foner. The Electoral College is “an archaic system” that bolsters the white South’s political power, augmented by the legacy of the 3/5th clause.

The Capitol Riot Reveals the Dangers From the Enemy Within

But the belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion.

www.thenation.com

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@profgabrielle

4 years

Gratified that @nytimes joins activists in refusing to see the story of #BreonnaTaylor fade. None of 7 police raiders wore body cameras. "The Times’s built a 3D model of critical sequences of events to show how shoddy police work led" to her murder.

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@profgabrielle

4 years

If you are a Dean/Provost/Chair and you’re asking your faculty of color/grad students to sit on #DEI taskforces, please see this entire thread. Summary: 1) take something real off their plates 2) offer resources to make sure their work isn’t impeded 3) have answers 👆🏾. #highered

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@profgabrielle

4 years

I think I’m at the point of my career where I don’t want or need to publish with any press or journal where I can’t capitalize Black: Black people, Black collectives, Black movement, Black agency, Black love.

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@profgabrielle

3 years

Writing letters that actually get people jobs, grants, fellowships and opportunities—it’s painstaking and time- devouring work. Thanking everyone who has done this work for me.

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@profgabrielle

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We don’t talk enough about the “emotional work that is involved in our scholarship” as #POCHistorians . “We are charged w/ reading some of the most devastating, horrific information. That work is heavy. And it’s constant” says ⁦ @ericaadunbar ⁩ #slavery

Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies:

A Conversation with Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Tiya Miles, Co-Winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

gilderlehrman.medium.com

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Wow—watch this. It’s a deeply historical, detailed, passionate defense of Black leadership in the struggle for civil rights and peaceful protest that ends with #TakeAKnee #BetoORourke #Blktwitterstorians #BetoForSenate #Twitterstorians

NowThis Impact

@nowthisimpact

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‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful

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Non-Black people. Your Black colleagues are exhausted and spent. Ask if they want to cancel or postpone that meeting. We need a minute. We can’t quite catch our breath.

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News. I’ll be joining amazing #BlackStudies , #BlackPoetry , #19C scholars and library and #DH colleagues at Penn State in this historic cluster hire. Can’t wait to build with new colleagues + all of you frm our new Center! Effort results in nine new faculty

African American life and culture hiring effort results in nine new faculty | Penn State University

The Penn State College of the Liberal Arts will significantly enhance the diversity of its faculty and strengthen its scholarly expertise in African American and African Diaspora life and culture...

www.psu.edu

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Every day he was my best thing. I will miss him always.

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@profgabrielle

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Harvard’s @HoughtonLib will pause all digital project work to spend the year digitizing *only #BlackHistory .* Why? Because an archivist dared to propose it when undergirded by a movement.💥 @dorothyjberry !💥 @BC_ALA @NYPL_Archives @AmAntiquarian @BeineckeLibrary @TranscribeSI

Dorothy Berry

@dorothyjberry

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1/4 Hyped to finally announce! In honor of rectifying past practice with positive forward action, I have proposed and been approved to pause all digital project work at Houghton Library, and spend the next year digitizing only Black American History

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These taskforces will eat into your time, your energy, your sleep. Please believe. Some institutions will make imp changes as a result. Some will do nothing/nada. You can say no. There’s lots of ways to say that, here’s one: “My focus is really on my scholarship right now.”

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@profgabrielle

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People aren’t “low income” and we can use more accurate language than “low-income families.” They are from *under-resourced communities;* and “high-income families” come from *over-resourced* communities—with subsidized schooling, tutoring, access to green spaces, arts and more.

𝕁𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝔼. ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕤

@ProfJonCollins

1 year

Academics, please stop referring to kids as “low-income.” They are from low-income households. A kid’s family’s household income is not their social identity. It’s a category used to make (usually very surface) assumptions about kids’ lives when they don’t have access to wealth.

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Questions to ask: 1. Does this support or advance my own and BlPOC faculty/students communities larger goals? 2. Who is on the committee and who is leading it? 3. Is it advisory or will it have the power to implement? 4. Will you get faculty lines, grad student stipend 💰?

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You: What resources can you provide so this doesn’t impede my scholarship? (Repeat if nec). Dean/Chair: 1) a research assistant/team or 2) your @NCFDD tuition or 3) do you want to go to @TheOpEdProject or . . . Wrong answer: b/c of Covid we don’t have such resources . . .

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Jonathan Gibbs's son, Thomas Van Renssaler Gibbs, is a founder of #FAMU which, we can only imagine, will be directly hit by Florida's HB999 and WOKE acts. He served in the Florida legislature; like his father, he advocated for Black educational justice.

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Calling on the ancestors who survived people and places meant to crush them. We need all your wisdom, strength, spirit and strategies right here, right now.

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5. What’s in place to ensure the task force’s recommendations are adopted? 6. Is there a baseline budget attached to the task force? Or are these budget neutral recommendations? 7. Ask yourself: is there another more effective way I can add to or influence this conversation?

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I’m finally going to create a real website this summer. I’ll post threads like this there so they have a permanent home.

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Pinch me. I've been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. And you should see the other folks in this class🥰.

New Academy Members

Elected in 2024

www.amacad.org

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@KeishaBlain @politico You should know better @politico ; demote whoever put together this list. For shame. Send @KeishaBlain a gift box for her suggestions—and do your homework not only with Black scholars but with various POVs and communities of historians that have so much to offer on this topic.

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Today, we are going to hand in the page proofs for the Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the 19th today and I’m feeling like this 👇🏾

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@profgabrielle

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@NewsHour @IAmAmnaNawaz @AlexiaCampbell This important story is widely known. Is there any reason it’s being treated as if it’s a new discovery?

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What’s the best memoir you’ve ever read— and what made it stand out?

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@profgabrielle

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After earning a doctorate from Cornell, as the only African-American graduate in her class, Dr. Julie R. Butler took over the 145th Street Animal Hospital, for many years the only full-service vet clinic in Harlem. 62 years old. Gone to Covid.

Dr. Julie Butler, Vet Who Cared for Harlem and Its Pets, Dies at 62 (Published 2020)

She owned and operated the 145th Street Animal Hospital and lived by the principle that “if you have it to give, you give,” caring for animals and opening her home to friends in need.

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(Mifflin Gibbs was a successful businessman and newspaper man, who, facing racial violence in CA moved to Canada and became their 2nd Back elected official. He's the 1st Black elected judge in the U.S. He and his brother Jonathan were active in the Colored Conventions Movement).

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EXCITED to start a Center for Black Digital Research w/ Shirley Moody-Turner, Jim Casey⁩ + ⁦ @CCP_org ⁩! You’ll soon find us at #DigBlk —pronounced either way. Award-winning Colored Conventions Project founding director joins ⁦Penn State.

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Jonathan Gibbs became Florida's 4th Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1873 after serving as its first and only Black Secretary of State. Gibbs advocated for education as a civil right in the 1868 Constitution and oversaw a rapid expansion of public education.

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Recruiting Black/Latinx/Indigenous faculty + grad students? Start *fully* covering relocation costs. We often don't have savings and family safety nets. Why? A typical white family's net worth is nearly 10x greater than that of a Black family. #highereducation #highered

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@MehrsaBaradaran @SkinnerLiber8ed Stupid question and I know you’ve covered this but she’s applying to all the no loan small schools like Amherst and Bowdoin right? No loans. Paid summer internships. Amherst is now more than 50% students of color I think.

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@profgabrielle

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This is scholarly solidarity. @DukePress ’s move to make Lorgia Garcia Pena’s book open access is badass and important. It signals to @Harvard and Lawrence Bacow just how backwards and transparently insulting to Ethnic Studies + scholars of color this tenure denial is. @thecrimson

Dr. Alex Gil 🏳️

@elotroalex

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@rajchettysju @malamanuense In collaboration with us, and to make the event possible, @dukepress has generously made García’s book freely available for a month in electronic format. . Notice also they are offering a 30% discount on the print version using code E19GRCIA at checkout.

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If you think the institution will follow through, you can still decline. Be in conversation with others to see who can do the work. Share this with them so they can get the necessary resources so this isn’t extra labor that so many women of color especially carry.

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When Ona Judge waits 200 for her story to be told alongside those about her enslavers Martha and George Washington; and then the book about her becomes the 1st about Black women to win the Douglass Prize. Congrats @ericaadunbar + co-winner @TiyaMilesTAM .

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Why Black people are forced to pay for police services that are not set up to serve or protect us—that too often terrorize us—is one unaccounted for way we *subsidize* public services. We did this for decades, centuries even, during Jim Crow too. I’m just sick. Again.

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3.1 Million. We're cooking up all sorts of interdisciplinary Black scholars/hip at the Center for Black Digital Research/ #DigBlk with amazing colleagues across the continent and across the commonwealth. Grad students--the opportunities and packages are 🔥

Mellon Foundation awards $3.1 million for broad diversity, education initiative | Penn State...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $3.1 million grant to Penn State to build on existing programs in the College of Liberal Arts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, including...

www.psu.edu

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I love my new job. I just can't believe how lucky I am. That's the tweet.

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For those pointing out that from the 19th thru the mid 20th centuries, Democrats were aligned with slavery, racial violence, and Jim Crow, this account is connected to a historian, not a partisan; 🙄we can keep track of policy positions connected to political parties over time 👀

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When two committed Black women historians show up for all of us, it looks like this: A Black Women’s History of the United States comes out Feb 4th. #citeblackwomen #citeBlackWomenSunday #POC19 @DainaRameyBerry @KaliGrossPhD

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We resubmitted The Colored Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, the very 1st (!) edited collection on the longest and largest #19C movement for Black #CivilRights . #BlackHistory #twitterstorians @uncpressblog

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Next July, I’ll be heading to the American Antiquarian Society as the Distinguished Scholar in Residence. Hoping we can have an African American Archives posse all year round. Please apply for long and short term fellowships! #c19 @AmAntiquarian

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I keep thinking about how much energy it takes to stand up and calmly say “you will not erase my work and presence,” about how hard your heart beats before you get up to say “I do not consent.” Even as we stand with @chaedria and celebrate her, the stress and costs lurk and claw.

bad news women

@badnewswomen

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It went down at the Guggenheim! @chaedria is the first Black curator to exhibit with the institution with her show Basquiat: Defacement The Untold Story. They left her off the panel and.....

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@GraysonGoal Hey this is a real gift and service. Just sending some appreciation.

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David Drake is the only Black poet we know whose circulating work doesn't include *anything* printed in newspapers, pamphlets or books. His page was clay. Enslaved until the War freed him, his poetry appeared on the pots he made for others' gain. #slaveryarchive #C19 #BlackPoetry

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Learning #RBG had only one Black law clerk in 40 years on the Supreme and Appellate courts is gutting and haunting me. I am having problems mourning her and need to ask “can’t Black women have anything?” How do we swallow this to celebrate her legacy?

More than 100 of Ginsburg's law clerks line up to honor her on Supreme Court steps

The assembly of Ginsburg's former law clerks, who gathered to serve as honorary pallbearers, served as a stirring tribute to the late Supreme Court justice.

www.yahoo.com

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@profgabrielle

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I know of no Black family who can make this claim. #BoycottJuly4thDC

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@profgabrielle

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Holding space for those of us absorbing the execution of #DaunteWright : His mother. His son. His family and friends. MN’s Brooklyn Center community. Also the Black reporters covering state murder after murder, with no pause or justice coming.

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Let’s call the names of Black women critics who were the first to recognize and make way for what we now know—that Black woman’s genius on the page cuts, shines, blinds, illuminates. Barbara Christian Mary Helen Washington Frances Smith Foster Claudia Tate Thank you

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I love working where I work, but all things being equal, I'd like to teach at a University that protects its students, faculty, staff, and vendors by requiring anyone who is on campus to be vaccinated. Just sayin.

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Pomona College has a 2-year #postdoc in any field in the arts, humanities or social sciences whose research engages race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality studies. 1-1 load, one public lecture a year. Salary = visiting full-time faculty position.

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"Trying to diversify the faculty without the support and resources necessary to address the real structural inequities that are at work--that's not actually #DEI work." Let's say this one together #highered . Extractive, underpaid, labor is not equity work.

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I choose Wayne State as my first tenure track job for its Black, older, working class, smart, savvy, driven students. I’m so glad to see this good news!

Amber S. Case, MA, MAPH, MLIS

@amberscase

2 years

Wayne State University receives $6 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to increase Black Studies faculty and establish the Detroit Center for Black Studies

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The head/chair of Penn State's African American Studies department resigns after less than a year in the position. He's the third chair in as many years of what was recently a robust and well-respected department on the rise.

Centre Daily Times

@centredaily

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Michael West resigned last Wednesday and released a 2,500-word open letter explaining his resignation on Sunday.

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Was asked to share a TT track #DH #job paying 70K in one of the most expensive cities in country teaching 2-2 *and* working as the College's Educational Technologist. They wanted to attract a diverse pool. This was my response. A thread . . .

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That the US gov compensated a small group of once enslaved Blacks and said “Opps. No.” should be better known of course. But this is taught widely in college classrooms. I learned about it as a 19 year old. “New investigative reporting” suggests that it’s new knowledge.

PBS News

@NewsHour

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A new investigative report reveals that while the federal government did grant land to the formerly enslaved after the Civil War, it also took that land back and returned it to white southerners. @IAmAmnaNawaz speaks to @AlexiaCampbell to learn more.

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This short piece by ⁦ @ProfCAnderson ⁩ is the best I’ve read all year. Chock full of evidence and analysis, it affirms the dangers of now and coming/soon that many of us know but somehow also hold at bay. Please read and share.

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I don’t do “service work.” I do pipeline-building work. I do community-building work. I do institution-building work. I build partnerships. I build digital archives. #highered @NCFDD #DH

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Well. . . I'm accepting an honorary degree from @AmherstCollege ; there's so much to say. I'm grateful to be joining Tracy K. Smith and Freeman A. Hrabowski, both giants whose work has helped me think and create in new ways.

Amherst College

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Six influential leaders in the arts, biotech, higher education, environmental journalism, business and literature will receive honorary degrees from Amherst during the #Amherst2023 Commencement. More:

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My PhD in #EthnicStudies and the #BlackStudies departments that have sustained me and so many others for decades wouldn’t have been possible without this historic strike. Thank you to those committed and brave student activists. #studentactivism #blktwitterstorians #blkgradlife

Jerry Mitchell

@JMitchellNews

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50 yrs ago today, San Francisco State College suspended classes after a student-led strike, which led to Black Studies & Ethnic Studies Departments at the college — and across the nation. #FlashbackFriday #FridayThoughts #history #sschat #tdih

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Of course, Ben Carson tests positive. For his family's sake, I'm glad he has medical hook ups--cause Herman Cain already proved that Black men in horror movies always die first.

At least three people at a White House election party last week have tested positive, including Ben...

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For the 1st time in 20 years, Oprah won't appear on the cover of O magazine. Instead, it features #BreonnaTaylor , the 26-year-old EMT fatally shot at home by Louisville police executing a no-knock search warrant. #BreonnaTaylorsKillersAreFree

Oprah Winfrey honors Breonna Taylor with historic O magazine cover: ‘She was just like me’

O magazine's September 2020 issue featuring Breonna Taylor marks the first time Oprah Winfrey hasn't appeared on the cover.

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4 years

Queerness, the legacy of slavery, postcolonial African identity, are at the forefront of literature today. McKay lived 1889-1948 + was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. A century later, “Romance in Marseille” will be published, Feb. 11.

A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher (Published 2020)

Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille” deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas about the Harlem Renaissance.

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3 years

(Am I the only one who just can’t force myself to go to online conferences?)

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3 years

I want to be a VP of faculty recruitment and retention for my next job—and to help train others who take these positions. It’s amazing how badly Deans can boldly, arrogantly, or insouciantly bungle this. We need a systemwide response. #highered

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Grad Students! Undergrads! Explore digital initiatives + increase access to the Library of Congress’ unparalleled collections. Past fellows have identified hundreds of historical, literary, artistic, cinematic + musical gems. Remote. $6,000 for 10 weeks.

Junior Fellows Program

A. Program OverviewB. DescriptionsC. Junior Fellows Program FAQsProgram OverviewThe Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program is a paid, 10-week annual summer internship program that enables...

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3 years

Hey, ⁦ @nytimes editors, people didn’t “keep” enslaved people—they *enslaved* people. ⁩ This interesting article *starts* this way: ”Stacie Marshall, who inherited a farm in the NW corner of Georgia, learned that her ancestors kept enslaved people.”

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In Florida, the KKK was so enraged by Jonathan Gibbs's success in the realm of education and civil rights and by his roles as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction that he slept armed in his attic to better defend himself if attacked.

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5 years

I hate the word “service” in academic settings. Many of us do institution building. We invest in graduate students, colleagues + depts we care about. This aligns with our values + an ethics passed on to us by #academicancestors . Let’s not devalue that. #highered #AcademicTwitter

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26 days

Another turn around the sun. This aging thing feels pretty fabulous from where I’m sitting. #thankful .

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3 years

Archivists at Penn State Libraries have created a #lovecraftcountry exhibit with loads of primary materials that focus on Black and LGBTQIA+ creators, travel, boarding houses connected to episode themes! Check it out! @LovecraftHBO @psulibs

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4 years

I just can’t. And note that we don’t kill and neglect your newborns: “The mortality rate of Black newborns shrunk 39-58% under Black physicians’ care. Mortality rates for White babies is unaffected by the doctor's race.

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3 months

Did you know Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Walker were roommates? Digitizing Black women’s papers always surfaces networks, collaborations, and influences notes Meta DuEwa Jones in her vibrant keynote for @BWOA_Project and @DigBlk convening!

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4 years

I’m sending love and respect to all my friends and colleagues who have kids in the house whom they are trying to keep sane and schooled while also doing their jobs and trying to stay sane themselves. Just started this morning by saying a little prayer for you all.

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4 years

Our new dog—more #DutchShepherd than Mastiff—has been herding us to bed at about 10:30 after making us play and walk after dinner. I’m here for it.

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4 years

The Black tax in housing makes me mad every day. At *closing,* my loan didn’t go thru despite my 790 credit rating, a letter saying I had a tenured job + two decades at my previous job. Turns out the mortgage loan officer entered Black under race. (He didn’t bother to ask me).

CNN

@CNN

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Black homeowners pay more in mortgage interest, mortgage insurance and property taxes than other homeowners and that contributes to roughly half of the $130,000 retirement savings gap between Blacks and Whites, according to a new study from MIT.

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Please Send. Your. Students. We’ve got great new grad funding and mad mentorship support. Interested in a Dual-Title PhD in Af Am/Diaspora Studies and literary studies and/or rhetoric and Black digital and public research, apply for the Cooper DuBois:

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@profgabrielle

4 years

He staged photos with room and costume changes. But the metadata outed this performance. Don’t mess with metadata y’all. It ain’t lying today. But the WH wouldn’t know anything about that.

Jon Ostrower

@jonostrower

4 years

The photos released by the WH tonight of the president working at Walter Reed were taken 10 minutes apart at 5:25:59 pm and 5:35:40 pm ET Saturday, according to the EXIF data embedded in both @AP wire postings that were shared by the White House this evening.

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At the Huntington Library, they asked me for an ID every single day as other researchers with year-long, or even month-long, fellowships waltzed passed. The know-your-place aggression couldn’t be masked by all the politeness they poured into that daily request.

Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes)

@CulturedModesty

3 months

man, I still remember when an archivist said she needed to check my laptop bag…after I had been there for weeks without anyone ever asking, or any of the other researchers, about what’s in their computer bags.

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"I am a black, Southern woman, and of my immediate white male ancestors, all of them were rapists. My very existence is a relic of slavery + Jim Crow. You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument."

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4 years

It was Clayton, the south metro county that’s also the bluest bastion in the state, that provided the decisive votes. The county long represented in Congress by U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the late civil rights icon.

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6 years

I didn’t share this on my panel but here’s one of the best pieces of advice I got—from the great Barbara Christian. “Read articles so you have no fears about writing them.” She was NOT here for imposter syndrome. Own y/our brilliance #abwh2018

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5 years

How lucky to come of age as a Black girl, a Black student, a Black literary scholar, as a grown woman, surrounded by Toni Morrison’s words, craft and wisdom. To have almost my entire literate life overlap with her—till this moment—is a deeper blessing than I had ever imagined.

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@profgabrielle

4 years

My mom, who was disowned when she married my dad and was adopted into his/my family, just told me she was on American Bandstand and won. She’s never, ever, mentioned this. And I’ve never seen her dance. WTF?!

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4 years

Imagine. It took a global protest movement to get the press to capitalize Black. Imagine what it’s going to take to dismantle white supremacy.

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5 years

Here’s my #ProfMissionStatement for those following this thread—please share yours. This helps me know what to say yes to and what to decline. I try to measure my work, accomplishments and shortcomings based on this—not someone else’s rubric. #AAIHS2019 @jmjafrx

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3 years

One of the worst parts of academic covid (for me) is giving webinar talks with no chat function, feedback, or interaction. All time and energy that goes into crafting something satisfying and you just don't know how it lands. And I come from a call and response tradition, y'all.

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@profgabrielle

5 months

I just finished my 5-year review for full profs or endowed profs. I’d usually send it to my mom, and she would put her formidable proofing skills to work. She read *everything* I published for my entire career. Today I feel that deeply. #grateful

Lynn Foreman, fierce proponent of Tikkun Olam and a model for many, dies at 81

Lynn Foreman (May 9, 1942—November 3, 2023) was a fierce and feisty proponent of Tikkun Olam who believed that no achievement mattered unless you also were firmly committed to leaving

www.hpherald.com

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5 years

This inaugural advocacy award happened. It honors “collaborative service, scholarship, teaching, and leadership efforts aimed at promoting, fostering, and implementing an inclusive environment.” We have so much more work to do. They surprise winners in class. That’s me surprised!

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