If you have time today please reach out to your senators to urge them to vote against RFK jr. Here’s a template to make this easier.

“Monstrous work: the work of Black people for Black people, work that attempts to foster and provide healthy choices, second chances, access to futures. Caring for the lives and living of Black people has never been legitimate in the eyes of the state” -Eve Dunbar

What a joy to work with these brilliant scholars #AHA25 #NewDirections

Sitting with beautiful work from Tracy Smith: “My error was in exercising a freedom I did not, in reality, possess. For in reality, I am not Free but rather Freed, a guest in the places-we might just as easily call them institutions-where freedom is professed.”

In college I had a chance to read for her. She was full of light ✨She wore the most marvelous green shoes and she encouraged our hearts in ways we didn’t realize we needed during her visit. RIP Nikki Giovanni ❤️

Reviewing proofs for my latest article. It’s important to note that the scholarship of Catherine Adams, Jessica M. Johnson Crystal Webster as well as Tara Bynum, Derrick Spires and Nazera Wright made this piece possible. Reading them helped me grow as I wrote this.

New course alert at Cornell ✨HIST 3750

Beautiful scholarship from J.T. Roane 📚

The future is bright! We wrapped up our Mellon Mays conference at Cornell this weekend ❤️

We are excited to welcome the mid-Atlantic cohorts of the Mellon Mays program this weekend! MMUF addresses the problem of underrepresentation in the professoriate through a pipeline process of supporting talented undergraduates seeking careers in academia.

Friends! If you’re in Nashville, join us at our session at 1:00 today at the Tennessee State Library. I’ll be doing a signing afterwards and would love to see you! @uncpress.bsky.social