On #EmancipationDay, we recognize & honour the strength of Black Communities, while calling for a collective response to anti-Black racism. VP EPC Alice Pitt shares #YorkU's initiatives on countering anti-Black racism & ways to participate in reclamation: yfile.news.yorku.ca/2023/07/28/yor…

Just read a 384 page book from cover to cover. Proud to say it’s my own. Writing is such a dissociative process. Grateful to my editorial team for believing in what the manuscript could inspire about how all hope is not lost when it comes to climate crisis + racial justice!

📖 Applications are now open for our museum's ️Fall 2025 internships! "I loved and still cherish my internship at NMAAHC. It was the highlight of my undergraduate career.” - Jada A., Curatorial Internship intern (2019) Apply today: s.si.edu/434KJ4x.

Listen...I hope these younger ones understand....Millennials...our favs had TALENT...our songs had hooks and bridges....and we had CHOREOGRAPHY....do you see them right now tearing this stage up...#BETAwards

I’m excited to finally share my personal website: janellebrady.ca! 🎉 It’s a space where I’ve gathered my research, teaching, writing, and community work — all in one place. Take a look, explore, and if you’d like to collaborate or connect, there’s a contact form too.

“You can’t sing…it’s a gimmick!” Don’t ever let the noise stop you from changing the sound 🙏🏿

I just found out that Ananda Lewis has died and I’m absolutely brokenhearted. She had tremendous success at MTV and with her own talk show, but she worked with us at @bet BET before all that. She was only 52 and such a lovely woman, who Loved her young son so much.

62 years ago today, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by avowed white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith who was convicted 30 years later.

Happy 94th Birthday to actress, singer, comedian, writer and television producer, Marla Gibbs!

How #patient-led research could speed up medical innovation ✨️ People with understudied chronic conditions are taking up #science. sciencenews.org/article/patien… Follow Renegade Research for new project updates - coming soon! #RenegadeResearch #RemissionBiome

Students in our Schomburg-Mellon Summer Humanities Institute recently had a research appointment in our Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division where they read materials from our archives. #Schomburg100 #SchomburgCenter

Demetrius Inclusive & meaningful 📚 #YesWeCan “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou 💜 "Weaving the Strands of Afro Hair Discrimination, and a Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah Hon FBA". British Academy 21/06/25 🏆 x.com/BritishAcademy…

‘The Porter’ Is a Rich Period Drama About Labor and Dignity The series is substantive, well crafted and a little melancholy, centered on a group of Black train porters in Canada in the 1920s nytimes.com/2025/07/17/art…

Being A Creative is a marathon not a sprint. It’s a journey, not a destination. You evolve and shape-shift into many different forms and versions of who you think you are. So make sure that you love on every single creative version of yourself. The good bad ugly all

RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

We’re heartbroken to report the passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the age of 54 from an apparent drowning. A generation grew up with Warner as Theodore “Theo” Huxtable. His portrayal helped redefine Black boyhood on screen, offering humor, vulnerability, and depth across eight

I feel like we all tuned in as a family to see Theo graduate from NYU. This is all so sad.

The King Center mourns the tragic passing of our dear friend, #MalcolmJamalWarner. Malcolm was a brilliant, multi-faceted artist and an inspiring giver. We are grateful for his love for #TheKingCenter and the King legacy. And for the ways he showed his support, including as

This one hit me right in the heart. 😭#malcolmjamalwarner

Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype | Vinson Cunningham | The New Yorker In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the material. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…