As Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Co of Phila, I am thrilled to post the CFP for a conference, BLACK PHILA, that I am organizing with 1838 Black Metropolis & McNeil Center at Penn. Please distribute widely: librarycompany.org/academic-progr…

“History mostly remembers the exploits of male freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution…Yet there were also women who had key roles in the fight for #Haiti's independence. Much of their #history is unknown in the mainstream…” bbc.com/culture/articl…

📚This is the autobiography of John S. Jacobs, the brother of Harriet Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861). Kudos to Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the remarkable scholar who rediscovered this significant text! #history #slavery

The Trauma of Activism: The Black Freedom Struggle (convened by Dr. Francoise N. Hamlin) 👉🏾Join us at Brown University on September 13th & 14th at the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason theatre for a timely conversation on race, activism, and trauma. eventbrite.com/e/the-trauma-o…

Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has

🚨The submission deadline is quickly approaching! AAIHS invites individual and panel proposals that grapple with the history of slavery and its afterlives in the United States and throughout the broader African diaspora. aaihs.org/conference-202…

“The story of Black farmers in Utah is one of resilience and determination. Farming offered Americans a tangible connection to the land and a means of self-sufficiency — a way to carve out a piece of the American Dream.” #history sltrib.com/opinion/commen…

📚Our Black Perspectives forum on _The Dialectic is in the Sea_ concludes today with “Reflections on the Work of Beatriz Nascimento” by editors Christen A. Smith, Bethânia N. F. Gomes, and Archie Davies. Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s #Brazil aaihs.org/reflections-on…

Brown University invites applications for its 2025-2027 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a two-year program designed to support the development of early career #scholars from diverse backgrounds  who show promise as innovative scholars. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37709418/p…

Today on Black Perspectives: Dr. Willie Mack (willie mack) examines the #history and "legacies of the white nativism that has erased the success stories of the Black immigrant while attempting to define and control Blackness." #race #immigration #identity aaihs.org/white-nativism…

📚Final selections for my grad course on African American women’s #history. Read with us! ♥️

👉🏾Today on Black Perspectives: Sean Gallagher reviews Tamika Y. Nunley’s new book, The Demands of Justice, a "ground-breaking legal #history of enslaved women’s resistance to #slavery and its gendered #violence." UNC Press AAIHS aaihs.org/enslaved-women…

Save the Date for this exciting publication event at Politics and Prose featuring Nemata Blyden and Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD.

🚨Submissions are now open for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best journal article in Black intellectual history. 👉🏾Awarded to the author of the best article published in each volume of #GlobalBlackThought. Follow the link below for details. aaihs.org/accepting-subm…

The African American Intellectual History Society AAIHS is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article published in each volume of Global Black Thought 📚 Link for more info: aaihs.org/accepting-subm…

At Brown University, Black freshman enrollment drops 40 percent browndailyherald.com/article/2024/0…