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

Octavia Butler's Parables
open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...

*deep ancestral sigh*

'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...

@collardstudies.bsky.social americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/...

respect my home state’s music legacy 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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

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

“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

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.