Global Black Studies at Duke
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The Department of African and African American Studies at @DukeU
National Humanities Center Announces Dr. Blair LM Kelley as New President @DukeBlackAlumni @DukeAlumni @DukeHistoryDept nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-human…
"Instead of presenting facts and law, the board waved the white flag of surrender. Mr. Ryan’s resignation is a victory for intimidation and fear over the rule of law." nytimes.com/2025/06/30/opi…
"How does the Black female slave disfigure our received conceptions of gendered violence? It is this question that animates @pdouglassphd’ groundbreaking work, 'Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence' (@StanfordPress)." illwill.com/engendering-bl…
#AAIHS2026 The African American Intellectual History Society’s Eleventh Annual Conference March 27-28, 2026 Pittsburgh, PA Theme: “Preserving Histories and Legacies in the 21st Century” Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025 aaihs.org/call-for-paper…
Overlooked No More: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Whose Camera Sought a Truer Image of Black Men He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich images explored race, queerness, desire and spirituality nytimes.com/2025/06/27/obi…
"We are not merely researching and writing the matter of our books here. We are researching and writing the matter of our lives. That is why we can and perhaps even should resist the capitalist imperative to rush." lithub.com/the-agonies-an…
California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies themarkup.org/privacy/2025/0…
The DEI dilemma: How Duke stacks up against peer institutions amid federal pressure to scrap ‘diversity’ | @DukeChronicle dukechronicle.com/article/2025/0…
Exporting the Convict Clause: Slaves of the State in the Canal Zone The criminalization of Blackness enabled by the Thirteenth Amendment brought chain gangs to the construction projects of the Panama Canal Zone daily.jstor.org/exporting-the-…
How anti-worker policies, crony capitalism, and privatization keep the South locked out of shared prosperity epi.org/publication/ro…
Triangle-Based Social Justice Orgs: “Stop the War on Black, Brown and Muslim Communities” Human rights groups and other local activists gathered to speak out against U.S. wars and attacks on vulnerable communities. indyweek.com/news/wake/tria…
Another #jam, Doc. 🎶 youtu.be/ywNyNJ2dFxI?fe… #groundgame
"I’d always been a John Coltrane fan — he was from Philly; you know, and he told me once he wanted to be a singer and that’s why he played the way he did. Well, I sang the way he blew after what he said, and I knew it was right.” #BlackMusicMonth medium.com/p/fcda981e2e25
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Jeopardizes Lifelines for Black Americans If passed, it would scale back Medicaid, slash funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and limit access to federal student loans capitalbnews.org/trump-big-beau…
Chess Lover Introduces Game to Malawi’s Prisons, Schools and Street Kids Susan Namangale fell in love with the game at age 9 in her small village, and she’s now on a mission to deliver a message to the whole country: Chess is good for everyone. nytimes.com/2025/06/27/wor…
‘The Ancestors Were Speaking’ Every year, tens of thousands of African Americans—including former President Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar—flock to Ghana to reconnect with their African roots. And Ghana encourages them to come home wordinblack.com/2025/06/my-pil…
André Leon Gray Closes Show at Artspace With a Powerfully Prescient Coda Raleigh Artist André Leon Gray’s solo show “Full Spectrum Dominance” closes on June 29. Its themes couldn’t be more relevant. indyweek.com/culture/raleig…
Snapshots of sound: A look at the icons who shaped Black music afro.com/afro-profiles-…
Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited by big American tech companies cbsnews.com/news/labelers-…
A full circle moment: @PyarSeth was my student at the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute some years ago (@APSAtweets, @DukePoliSci); now, as a PhD, he cites Stay Black and Die (@DukePress) in his @SCquarterly article — to have seen him then and have him see me now: Gratitude.
Honored to be in the Hip Hop South special issue! Big love to my brotha @CoreyMiles__ for curating something so beautiful. This piece about grandma was probably the hardest thing I've written - very grateful @SCquarterly allowed me to share her light
‘The Canal Is Ours’ | Miriam Pensack | @nybooks Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have stirred the memories of the Zone’s former American residents—and precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty nybooks.com/online/2025/06…
