If anyone is in Toronto next week on Feb. 19, come see us talk about our UCL-UofT funded project on ethnic media and digital transition.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Black Chicago History, Feb 26 with CDS and BMRC: events.uchicago.edu/event/259892...

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

If everything goes to plan, one of the next books in our Black Press Studies series with JHUP will be exploring how the Black Press covered this trial and the subsequent campaign to free Rosa Lee Ingram and her sons.

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

Happy Tuesday only and exclusively to Sade Adu www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc...

Just received an 11 page powerpoint and a "deployment plan" because our building is getting new bins. In between this and the new branding emails I'm on the precipice, ngl

Near and far: Pico de la Nieves and rediscovering some old off-road routes around mine

My enemy grows stronger. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dope new book klaxon www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

'tis the book-flogging season, so would be remiss of me not to highlight 40 percent off my books with @umasspress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY) and @illinoispress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY40) - plenty of other great books also available!

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

After we all had fun about Warwick its now my turn to eat shit, As UCL has officially launched its bicentennial "rebrand" buzzwords! narratives! logos! kill me! www.ucl.ac.uk/brand-and-ex...

Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org

Babe wake up new Hazel Carby just dropped www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Some people on here know that I run a dog walking/sitting business on the side of my academic stuff. Anyway, here are some of the dogs I look after, starting with Luna...

Sadiah's book is amazing and it deserves to be on all of the lists!

Happy Tuesday only and exclusively to Sade Adu www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc...

Would be pretty funny if this series was just Olusoga relitigating the reasons why he accepted an OBE.

Will you be in London on Dec 3rd? Perhaps you'd like to come to UCL and hear me talk with Matthew J. Smith about my new book, and potentially even get a book from me without paying international shipping! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...

Hey BBC you spelled genocide wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Managed to get both time and date of this wrong, spectacular work by me. It's actually tomorrow and at a time that is not wildly antisocial for UK people.

Event later today - chairing Martha Patterson's BMRC talk about her work on influential Black journalist Era Bell Thompson. Join us! (bit late for the UK crowd though, sorry). bit.ly/47aB0xO

Real "warriors come out to play" vibe from my children today.

Our (Will Mari, Carole O'Reilly and I's) new collection "Media Building" is now out in the world! It's with Palgrave, so hilariously overpriced, but please consider asking your library to buy it so that we can pool our royalties for a meal at Nando's xx link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

All time banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mb5...

PSA forthcoming collection on women architects and designers from @leuvenup.bsky.social. Alborz and Kathleen have done a great job putting this together. I have a chapter on Donna deJongh and the Cosby Academic Center at Spelman. lup.be/book/minding...

Field trip with the girls

The only times I want to hear about Tony Blair is via an obituary or The Hague. FUCK OFF.

GRAVEL SZN.

Parliament Square, London today. Thousands arriving in support of Palestine and protesting the proscription of Palestine Action The largest act of civil disobedience in many years. ✊️

Get it Merry. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JKU...

Sally Rooney dares the British government to follow through: defector.com/sally-rooney...

Planting trees in neighborhoods have a host of health and social benefits. They even reduce crime! www.motherjones.com/environment/...

GET SOME m.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7w...

Ep. 164: On Athleticide @derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. open.spotify.com/episode/0WGb...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly. 1/3

Launching an interactive digital map and database of Detroit’s historic Black-owned businesses. Check it out at freedomenterprise.org

Reclaiming space from cars and riding in solidarity with the people of Palestine. What a way to spend a day. Huge thank you to all the #BigRideForPalestine organizers! #FreePalestine

Soon come with the Mari and O'Reilly squad, "Media Building: Architecture, Design, and the Spatial Politics of Mass Communication"...will post the ToC once we have proofs, but some great contributions! Cover image is of the NYT building under construction in 1903.

Exciting developments at the @kcdefender.bsky.social, providing a other example of the importance of grassroots Black Press organising www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

Available to pre-order now - "Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History" featuring some great chapters and also one by yours truly on the Black Press in the Midwest www.oupress.com/978080619602...

The USPS "turns 250 on July 26, 2025 📫🎂. Since its founding, architecture, transportation, and technology have been integral to how the USPS operates. Trace the history of the post office’s built forms, and a narrative of an evolving nation unfolds with it."

that's right! e-bikes replace *car* trips they're the greatest climate mobility hack invented yet governments should be giving them away

Once overheard a colleague describe Warwick as "a carpark in Coventry" which is simultaneously dickhead behaviour and objectively funny.

Every single state who is not imposing sanctions on Israel or stopping the sale of weapons to Israel is complicit in all of the atrocities & deaths happening in Gaza. Shame on us all. www.who.int/news/item/21...

A major new resource by a wonderful team that will be essential for anyone teaching, and researching, South Asian histories of Britain. A huge congratulations and thank you for making this wonderful, and much needed, site a reality! #skystorians