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WE GATHER AT THE EDGE: CONTEMPORARY QUILTS BY BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS at Smithsonian Renwick gallery through june 2025 https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/black-women-quilters
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You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970).
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Feb. 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre
Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.
www.zinnedproject.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970).
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...
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“Writing history, for James, was an endless, recursive process of revision, of recontextualization, of asking again and again what the present circumstances enabled him to see or urged him to emphasize of the past he was recounting.”
David Scott on C. L. R. James, born on this day in 1901:
David Scott on C. L. R. James, born on this day in 1901:
C. L. R. James's Radical Vision of Common Humanity
It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.
www.bostonreview.net
January 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“Writing history, for James, was an endless, recursive process of revision, of recontextualization, of asking again and again what the present circumstances enabled him to see or urged him to emphasize of the past he was recounting.”
David Scott on C. L. R. James, born on this day in 1901:
David Scott on C. L. R. James, born on this day in 1901:
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Cleota Proctor Wilbekin’s “The Unbalanced Scales of Justice” and Sandra Noble’s “The Little Rock Nine,” in the “”We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists,” at the Renwick Gallery
March 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Cleota Proctor Wilbekin’s “The Unbalanced Scales of Justice” and Sandra Noble’s “The Little Rock Nine,” in the “”We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists,” at the Renwick Gallery
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“I decided to attend to the qualities of time that exist outside of capital.”
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
March 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“I decided to attend to the qualities of time that exist outside of capital.”
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
Octavia Butler's Parables
open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...
open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...
Octavia Butler's Parables
"I like living and I like being free"
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Octavia Butler's Parables
open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...
open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...
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A week from today I will be hosting this event at UNC-Greensboro (below is a thread with flier and description of event. Please share with your networks. Thank you ❤️
Good morning ❤️🌸
I wanted to share with and kindly ask that you share with your communities and networks a wonderful event taking place on UNC-Greensboro’s campus in two weeks from today.
I wanted to share with and kindly ask that you share with your communities and networks a wonderful event taking place on UNC-Greensboro’s campus in two weeks from today.
March 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A week from today I will be hosting this event at UNC-Greensboro (below is a thread with flier and description of event. Please share with your networks. Thank you ❤️
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*deep ancestral sigh*
March 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
*deep ancestral sigh*
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'On weekends, Stanford University professor Adam Banks flies from the California campus to Cleveland, on a mission to teach a college-level African American studies class to the Black community — for free.'
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
Bringing Black Studies to Black People
Dr. Adam Banks flies from the Bay Area to Cleveland most weekends to teach. Black studies in a neighborhood cafe.
wordinblack.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
'On weekends, Stanford University professor Adam Banks flies from the California campus to Cleveland, on a mission to teach a college-level African American studies class to the Black community — for free.'
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...
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respect my home state’s music legacy 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
January 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
respect my home state’s music legacy 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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1) We need to talk about why these prototypes are almost always women.
2) talking about real black, queer issues is considered “political” and suppressed/ shadowbanned by these platforms
But a fake “Black queer “momma” (peep the AAVE) can be controlled/ marketed
3) I hate it here
2) talking about real black, queer issues is considered “political” and suppressed/ shadowbanned by these platforms
But a fake “Black queer “momma” (peep the AAVE) can be controlled/ marketed
3) I hate it here
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
January 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
1) We need to talk about why these prototypes are almost always women.
2) talking about real black, queer issues is considered “political” and suppressed/ shadowbanned by these platforms
But a fake “Black queer “momma” (peep the AAVE) can be controlled/ marketed
3) I hate it here
2) talking about real black, queer issues is considered “political” and suppressed/ shadowbanned by these platforms
But a fake “Black queer “momma” (peep the AAVE) can be controlled/ marketed
3) I hate it here
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So if you care about countering this kind of suppression, buy my book and other Black history books. My book makes a great gift! Let’s push back on those who want to silence Black authors and Black history. #BlackFolk wwnorton.com/books/978163...
Black Folk
Named one of <em>Smithsonian</em>'s Best Books of 2023<p>2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award</p><p>2024 Philip Taft Labor History Award </p><p>2024 Brooklyn Public Library Book Pr...
wwnorton.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 PM
So if you care about countering this kind of suppression, buy my book and other Black history books. My book makes a great gift! Let’s push back on those who want to silence Black authors and Black history. #BlackFolk wwnorton.com/books/978163...
“The Black University already exists; it’s for us to recognize it, not to create it. Our work is crystal-clear. The question is, are we teachers ready to learn—are we leaders ready to follow?”
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
December 10, 2024 at 6:57 PM
“The Black University already exists; it’s for us to recognize it, not to create it. Our work is crystal-clear. The question is, are we teachers ready to learn—are we leaders ready to follow?”
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
Nikki Giovanni “I Fell off the Roof One Day (A View of the Black University) 1969
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“I really like to think that a black, beautiful, loving world is possible. I really do. I think.”
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
December 10, 2024 at 4:44 AM
“I really like to think that a black, beautiful, loving world is possible. I really do. I think.”
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
-- from Nikki Giovanni's essay collection Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)
RIP dear Nikki
#BlackSky
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over the past two years, i have been fortunate to work alongside haile + shirikiana gerima in an effort to build the sankofa archive. the vision is to ensure that they maintain stewardship of the archive + organize it so that the community has a role in its development.
December 4, 2024 at 2:39 AM
over the past two years, i have been fortunate to work alongside haile + shirikiana gerima in an effort to build the sankofa archive. the vision is to ensure that they maintain stewardship of the archive + organize it so that the community has a role in its development.