Thinking J.T. Roane Andrea Roberts, PhD Democracy and trains might know artists who would be great for this…

Not just how we remember but also preserve, protect & hold sacred these spaces. Its nat'l & global requiring a NAGPRA policy for African ppls.

'Too often cemeteries for enslaved people have been all but erased from history but how we remember matters.'
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Dr. Matilda Evans performs surgery in the operating room of Taylor Lane Hospital which she founded in South Carolina in 1901. Dr. Evans was a public heath pioneer & benefactor who treated African American & white patients & a practitioner of health care as a human right.

About that Cowboy Carter album cover. It’s a reenactment of a rodeo’s grand entry. Every rodeo (and powwow originally ) begins with one. It’s not about the flags it’s about the ritual, the pageantry. it’s the grand entry into the ring. #bey #black #rodeo vogue.com/article/bill-p…

There is a sale NYU Press until March 29th for 50 percent off with the code NYUP50. Check out Dark Agoras in case you’re interested and haven’t yet gotten your copy nyupress.org/9781479847679/…

2 words. Jones beach. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

If that Renaissance “syllabus” has Paris is Burning on it, I hope it also includes bell hooks and Judith Butler’s critique of the film. Get tired of people worshipping Livingston’s doc (bc of the fierceness of the Queens) w/o a critique of her gaze on Black queer/trans life.

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❤️❤️❤️ my fantasy is that I have enough free time to actually go to this concert when it comes through the DMV.

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We learn and lead in community. Thanking the organizers of Black Women's Organizing Archive's Black Women's Digital Records Day Shirley Moody-Turner, Kesla Elmore, Yolanda Mackey, Lauren Barnes, Carmin Wong, Sabrina Evans, Takina Walker, Kendra Napier-Fonash, Morgan Robinson of Black Women's Organizing Archive.

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Oh, my! Congrats, AAIHS and Penn Press!!!

Check out my latest: Refuge, Possibility, and Black Place: On Ayana Mathis’s “The Unsettled” lareviewofbooks.org/article/refuge… via @lareviewofbooks