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Derrick R. Spires

@drkmttr82

Scholar of C19 Black lit and culture.
Lover of black speculative fiction.

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linkhttps://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15926.html calendar_today18-11-2015 00:35:43

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“Run Joe” by Chuck Brown.. followed by “Overnight Scenario” by RE … I love this video of Fantasia performing it 🔥

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In amazing company for Yogita Goyal’s edited collection on contemporary African American literature, just out from Cambridge University Press. Check out the TOC for yourself — cup.org/3ty4Ufr

In amazing company for Yogita Goyal’s edited collection on contemporary African American literature, just out from @CambridgeUP. Check out the TOC for yourself — cup.org/3ty4Ufr
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Black Women's Organizing Archive will be organizing their 1st Digitize Black Women's Records Day March 26, 2024🎉
Make sure to give them a follow to learn more about this event and other exciting work coming from BWOA.

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Exciting news! 🎉You can follow The Black Women's Organizing Archive at Black Women's Organizing Archive . BWOA brings together the scattered archives of 19th and early 20th century Black women intellectuals, organizers, and activists. Updates from BWOA will be coming soon!

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Register here: eventbrite.com/e/who-owns-bla… for the Who Owns Black Data? Public Symposium, happening 3/29 in Baltimore, MD!

Register here: eventbrite.com/e/who-owns-bla… for the Who Owns Black Data? Public Symposium, happening 3/29 in Baltimore, MD!
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So I'm just grinding, deadline to deadline, email to email to email, & I realize I haven't really processed the latest gift from the universe! TY to the NAACP Image Awards® judges! Delighted to be in the company of Nicole Sealey, Clint Smith, Kwame Alexander, & Terrance Hayes! 🙏🏽🎉

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Austin experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. They spent the no-strings-attached cash mostly on housing, a study found.

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For Schomburg's 150th birthday The John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library & SchomburgCenter hosted transcribe-a-thons with Remaking the World of Arturo Schomburg, a NHPRC-funded project led by DeLisa Minor Harris, Barrye Brown, Melanie Chambliss, Laura Helton. Story by precious fondren gothamist.com/arts-entertain…

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The Rutgers English Diversity Institute is accepting apps for its weeklong summer prog! Undergrads/recent grads interested in pursuing graduate studies in English may apply. Seminars, guest speakers + an NYC excursion. Travel/accommodations/stipend incl! redi.rutgers.edu

The Rutgers English Diversity Institute is accepting apps for its weeklong summer prog! Undergrads/recent grads interested in pursuing graduate studies in English may apply. Seminars, guest speakers + an NYC excursion. Travel/accommodations/stipend incl! redi.rutgers.edu
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This week Monet Lewis-Timmons & Curtis Small are installing Monet’s doctoral exhibition, “Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Legacy of Black Women’s Archives,” exploring cross-generational Black feminist memory work and care. Opens Feb 6 UD Library, Museums and Press, so don’t miss! exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/alice-dunbar-n…

This week @MonetTimmons & @CurtisSmall are installing Monet’s doctoral exhibition, “Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Legacy of Black Women’s Archives,” exploring cross-generational Black feminist memory work and care. Opens Feb 6 @UDLibrary, so don’t miss! exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/alice-dunbar-n…
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Happy 80th Birthday, Dr. Angela Y. Davis! 🎈

📸: Close-up of activist and scholar Angela Davis, New York, October 16, 1972. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection via Getty Images).

Happy 80th Birthday, Dr. Angela Y. Davis! 🎈 📸: Close-up of activist and scholar Angela Davis, New York, October 16, 1972. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection via Getty Images).
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