Friday yummery.

I love how Kansas uses a serif font for their jersey numbers.

Graduate reading seminar booklist incoming! This is my pre-Civil War reading seminar list, minus Saunt, which is still in a box somewhere!

Magisterial. Truly.

Magisterial. Truly. This place and its rebuilding should renew our capacity for wonder.

Weah assisting McKennie's goal in the Champions League against the Premier League title winners! You love to see it! #USMNT #ChampionsLeague #JuventusManchesterCity 🇺🇸🇱🇷

Vive la Nouvelle-Orléans, chez moi.

Bennedict Mathurin marked Haitian Independence Day and talked about his heritage during a postgame Q&A and meet-and-greet with our Haitian fans 🇭🇹

How wonderful to see civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We still need truth tellers!

Through their experience, observation, field interactions, and research, both Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Rodolphe Desdunes unraveled the essence of being a Creole of Color throughout their literature. Read my latest article via Le Louisianais: louisianais.com/en/opinion/202…

New year, new book! The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution 07/01/2025 release (available for pre-order now!) Harvard University Press I hope you’ll agree the cover is LIT

Marching in that parade two years ago was one of the most fun, beautiful experiences of my life.

Since it's syllabus time again, I just wanted to say that if you are assigning An Unholy Traffic in your course: First, thank you! And second, I'd be delighted to discuss Zooming about it with your students! I spoke to several classes last fall and had wonderful experiences.

Thinking seriously about moving over to Bluesky permanently. It's much nicer and more active over there. So here's the link to my account there in case any of you are interested in connecting.

Soft launch tweet from Penguin.

As you should, brother!! Looks phenomenal.

On his final full day in office, President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, and has pardoned immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir and criminal justice reform advocate Kemba Smith Pradia. apnews.com/article/biden-…

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Legend.

This is likely my last post on here, so I'll leave you with a night I will never forget. The joy I felt—we felt—in the Dome that night was complete and pure and ours forever. So much hope and love shared by everyone in the building and across the city.