"Oh you're sitting a Mastiff-Rottweiler cross? Are they hard dogs to handle?" The dog:

25 percent off and free shipping through August 6 at @hopkinspress.bsky.social with code HSUM26 - never been a better time to pre-order "A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200" ! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

A Full Measure of Freedom

The Black Press at 200

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Congrats to Lydia and Megan, who have a cool new collection out on teaching American Studies in Britain with @edinburghup.bsky.social. I have an chapter on spatial literacy and disciplinary identity, lots of other great contributions too! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-teachin...

Teaching American Studies in Britain

Teaching American Studies in Britain

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I LOVE MATHIEU VAN DER POEL.

Working on proofs for a new piece I'm excited to get out, exploring the creation of Black History Month in Britain, transnational activism, and political blackness in the 1980s

A masterpiece.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago

It's Cormac McCarthy's birthday, so we can't let it go by without pointing you to this ridiculous nonsense in our archives...

Been meaning to recommend Amani's wonderful new book on kitchenettes and the Great Migration in Chicago - wonderful to see this important project develop over the years and a fantastic contribution to urban studies, literary studies, and histories of Black Chicago, nyupress.org/978147984088...

A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs

Uncovers how Chicago's kitchenette apartments shaped housing, race, and urban life in the twentieth centuryDuring the twentieth century’s Great Migration, ...

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Evelyn Welch, what the fuck are you talking about? You're pushing through a voluntary redundancy scheme in the humanities at Bristol right now! This is just the hotdog guy meme but with actual stakes. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’

Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts education

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also, working class is no longer a class, but a cultural signifier. if you work as a nail technician, you're working class, but no one pitches their entire political campaign at you.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)

Cautiously excited for new Ali miniseries on Amazon Prime, and a good moment to reflect on Michael Mann's 2001 biopic - a wildly flawed film with some transcendent moments, including the opening scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAx0...

Ali Opening Scene "Bring it on Home to Me" (4K Remastered )

YouTube video by Berna Cruz

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For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment. It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_s...

Keir Starmer denies saying Israel 'has the right' to withhold water and power from citizens in Gaza

YouTube video by LBC

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Israel has now killed over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the so-called “ceasefire” took effect last October. Palestinian-Canadian lawyer @dianabuttu.bsky.social explains how Israel has continued its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Read the full story — zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...

The solution to genocide isn't to let it happen and then maybe prosecute a few of the perpetrators after the fact. Boycott, divest, sanction.

What Ceasefire? Israel Has Now Killed Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since October

To Israel, the word ‘ceasefire’ simply means to continue its genocide – to keep killing, starving, and torturing Palestinians – just at a slower pace.

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Read Saima, always excellent! ♥️

Saima Nasar@saimanasar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I don't know if Berger has a direct email, but the Office of the Provost is provost@saic.edu if anyone wants to express their thoughts about this abject cowardice from SAIC and Berger's "leadership and vision"...

Hrag Vartanian@hrag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I had to comment on this story coming out of SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where a prof was put on leave for using a Palestine reference. Wild part is the provost who did it has made a career publishing about civil rights & whiteness. Like … wut?! hyperallergic.com/saic-puts-pr...

Two exciting Black Press opportunities - an early career workshop and publishing opportunity on the Global Black Press at Brown University (July 1 deadline), and a two-day symposium in March 2027 at Howard University to mark the Bicentennial of the Black Press (September 18 deadline).

It's "stick your whole head inside a frozen Greek yoghurt pot" hot for Ernie.

Let's fucking gooooo

820 EBONY/JET Really pleased to see this come together for Barbara, who has been working on this project for more than a decade. Text by Deb Willis, Brenna Greer, Carla Williams, myself and others, available to pre-order for SEP '26 release. www.artbook.com/978196930304...

God forbid I have a private life.

"I’m not saying I don’t care about human suffering; I just care more about my immediate self-interest because I’m the kind of person who contributes to society by starting companies that leverage technology to build smart tea kettles that brew themselves while you sleep at night."

I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes

March 29 2021 June 3 2022 5/16/23 5/9/24 5/27/25 5/12/26

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Registration now open for the BMRC 20th anniversary symposium, Chicago, June 17-18 - join us! Full line-up here: bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/events/bmrc-...

The most thorough history of public benches I’ve ever read! placesjournal.org/article/the-...

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

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Getting closer to the Black Press bicentennial in 2027 and we have a cover for our collection marking this landmark anniversary! Out in December and available to pre-order now from www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... - please consider asking your local library or university to purchase.

Wonderful project on poetry in the early Black Press by Charline Jao: periodicalpoets.com

Our forthcoming JHUP collection to mark the Bicentennial of the Black Press in 2027 now has a webpage! You can see the provisional ToC with all our fantastic contributors. Cover design will hopefully be getting confirmed soon, book out December '26 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

I am once again asking academics who introduce their newborns to the world as "their first co-authored publication" or equivalent: who hurt you and why are you like this?

Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social ‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front doi.org/10.1017/S174...

This sucks man. What a loss.

UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Kevin Mumford, author of NOT STRAIGHT, NOT WHITE: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues 💚 history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...