Derrick R. Spires
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Scholar of C19 Black lit and culture.
Lover of black speculative fiction.
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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
Lots of exciting work happening over at Black Women's Organizing Archive. #DBWRD2024 3/6/2024!
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.
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!
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! 🙏🏽🎉
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…
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…