@cornelwest.bsky.social recently spoke at my alma mater St John's College (in NM, I attended in MD). Sounds great: "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times." I hope he publishes it. Du Bois spoke at SJC too; West builds on that. www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....

Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access). The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This looks fantastic! brooklynrail.org/2026/03/musi...

The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Wow, flummoxed. My book is number four on new releases for African American literary criticism (as of this post) ... Really not sure how that happened.... But preorder your copy now! Don't miss out! www.amazon.com/new-releases...

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026, 3 PM - 12 AM Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration. nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

#DH Project definitely worth checking out — all Georgia O Keefe works digitized: www.openculture.com/2026/03/ever...

my upcoming book website from @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/R/Revo...

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New paper w/ @teddyroland.bsky.social on "How fiction powers generative AI systems." We designed a computational experiment to test the impact of the vast amount of fiction in LLM training data on how LLMs communicate, w/ implications for both AI design + literary theory. arxiv.org/abs/2603.01220

One more for International Women’s Day— a short piece I wrote on Billie Holiday’s importance to the Black Arts Movement www.aaihs.org/billie-holid...

I want to promote my book more on this site, but I have two hurdles. 1. I need an actual strategy. 2. I don't to annoy anyone/come off as a shill. The first issue can be solved with research. I'm not sure about the second one. 😅 #writing #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

Just a post in honor of the spiritual Godmother of the #Afrodeutsch movement on International Women’s Day, Audre Lorde! www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-...

Now we need a list of Black owned publishers!

The Gods in Small Doses: Stories by Josh Bell was reviewed in Foreword Reviews, which says it is “told in sharp and haunting prose, the[se] stories do a masterful job of blending the fantastical with the everyday." To order: https://twp.ai/4iwDkt #readUP

Last Day of #BlackHistoryMonth, posting my article on a little known speech #WEBDuBois gave on classical education at (Great Books) St John's College in Annapolis at the request of the only Black student there. Open Access. Dig the abstract & bookmark for later! amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...

"Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period" www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Du Bois continues to amaze. His last message to the world... credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

IG Live, this Thursday, about 5 PM EST to discuss the documentary and what comes next.

Dana Williams on her interview with #ToniMorrison. If you're a Morrison fan and missed this, you'll want to catch it. It's priceless. Williams' book is now right up there on my list. www.wnyc.org/story/how-to...

Coming this year! Run by the National Urban League, so not subject to Govt $$$ and free to run the museum as free agents. urbancivilrightsmuseum.org

Black History Month and of course the administration tries to suppress Black History: www.dw.com/en/us-judge-...

Always worth a revisit. A classic of Afrofuturist literature. RIP the great late Greg Tate. www.thebeliever.net/kalahari-hop...

As Black History Month winds down, seeing a new high in monthly traffic for the digital collection I edit on Af-Am Poetry: 37,000 users in February. Writings by Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay are the most in demand. Some new additions to the site this month:

1. A simple digital edition of the volume "Four Lincoln University Poets" (1930). Including Langston Hughes, Edward Silvera, and Waring Cuney. All three influential Harlem Renaissance poets were undergrads at Lincoln at the same time! scalar.lehigh.edu/african-amer...

‘𝘋𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 matters because it mattered to Milton. You can ignore it and still enjoy his poetry, but if you become seriously interested in Milton your interest will sooner or later extend to his religious views.’ Tobias Gregory on Milton’s theology. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here, I explain the problems with basing the economy on the fictional powers the Supreme Court has given to itself and how the fights between Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh led to the awful JJ Abrams Rise of Skywalker. Kinda. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is happening now.

Oh that is cool! Thanks for posting, definitely reposting this.

The Black Scholar is still looking for a second Book Reviews Editor. If you want to join us (and work alongside me), please apply! I am available for any questions you may have about the gig. www.theblackscholar.org/now-acceptin...

I'm so excited that this is coming out before I teach the Sociology of W.E.B DuBois again ❤️🖤💚

Of some interest... lithub.com/this-week-in...

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame. Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm. Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Today it is 158 years since W. E. B. Du Bois was born.

Companion site to my upcoming book: This digital poster tracks the way Black literary movements and Black little magazines influenced canon development, as represented in the Norton Anthology of Am Lit. #DH #digitalhumanities #BlackStudies #Periodicals and #Modernism. blackmodernism.com

‘Sun Ra: Do the Impossible’ Review: A Space-Age Jazz Genius PBS American Masters presents a tribute to the eccentric, virtuosic pianist and composer, who combined swing with the avant-garde and Afrofuturism. www.wsj.com/arts-culture... | @wsj.com #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy Birthday Ishmael Reed, poet of the Black counterculture! Not enough work has been done on the legacy and prehistory of the Black counterculture (which my forthcoming book works to correct), but it's a vitally important chapter of American literary history. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Right there with Nina Simone! Happy Birthday Ancestors! www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Has anyone ever come up with the backstory to that pic of Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye hooping in a driveway or wherever?

I have a section on the paucity of the "novel" in early America before 1800.

That's not a lot of novels.

Pulling out quotes from this superb book this morning from my old colleague @drmishaewen.bsky.social - it's a treasure trove and I recommend picking it up if you haven't already.

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Woohoo! I am happy to be in this, with a short essay on “Banning Toni Morrison.” (This book perplexes fascists.)

‘Updike’s reduction of women to receptacles, landing strips and entrapment devices is a compulsive tic as identifying as Vidal’s rictus sneer.’ @jwolcott.bsky.social reconsiders John Updike. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

the only place this should happen is academic conferences