Great news! My first academic book, "The Image and the Fire" is now available for pre-order through UMass Press (to appear in May of next year). www.umasspress.com/978162534950...

Here's in honor to the life, work and legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, whose visionary novel "Wizard of the Crow" informed my own novel "Robert Johnson's Freewheeling Jazz Funeral," and whose study "Decolonising the Mind" certainly informs all of my academic work.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

New Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies is now live. I have an article in it about Du Bois and Higher Education -- an important read in these troubled times where the future of HBCUs is in danger of Trump's recent attempt to take control of them. amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...

Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Palestinians pushed into new misery as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run out in seven-week siege

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

I piece I wrote on W.E.B. Du Bois and classical education based on a talk he gave at my alma mater (a western classics type of school), which was just published by American Studies / Amerikastudien: amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...

Standing in solidarity.. picture is from March 2022 (Freiburg, Germany) but definitely worth a repost now.

Really heartened to hear this is happening and to see the Guardian is covering it. Hopefully a lot of other outlets are as well. Washington DC we need you out there demonstrating too if you ain’t already!: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kudos to @jpalfrey.bsky.social and the MacArthur Foundation for stepping up at this critical moment. Increasing foundation giving to fill the gap left by the broken promises and breached contracts of federal funding shows true leadership and compassion. #belovedcommunity
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New J Cole song “cLOUDs” is hot! Definitely (as always with J Cole) worth giving the lyrics a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUsQ...

Hearing lots of great things about this movie, but hesitant to see another Black trauma film. I have read the book, which was powerful and important, if not my favorite of Whitehead’s books, but curious what folks who have seen (and read) it thought.

Sounds like it could be an article about Europe and America…

Just getting set up on BlueSky now, although having had the account a couple months now. Figure I might as well at least have a first post, so this self-consciously conscious-of-itself-as-a-first-post post is my first post. Requisite self-promotional link follows: multicanon.com/highjack.html