Tell me you have no Black friends without telling me.

Universities sell “global” experience but are in a shambles when students assert global solidarities or acknowledge the historical and ongoing global inequalities that are manifest in the establishment and maintenance of the university itself. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

literally crying in the club (my office)

“The problem is, some of y’all are trying to sit at tables God sent you to flip”. -Camille Walker

Vote of No Confidence in Lee Roberts - Sign the Petition! chng.it/gyT2wgvVzb via Change.org

I am tired of these lies, and I got time today. This is a long thread to document what happened at and beyond the UNC-Chapel Hill solidarity encampment. 🧵

The administration should overturn the suspensions and drop the legal charges against all of our students. Tell them here: bit.ly/emailuncadmin

Have you read this exciting new article by Dr. Akissi Britton featured in our Spring 2024 issue?

The next article we are highlighting in our latest issue is by Dr. Nadia Mosquera Muriel. Please read, cite, download, and assign

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler

"My neighbor in the camp is the wife of a martyr, and she has a little girl named Yafa. She has a big picture of her husband hanging in the tent. Every night before Yafa goes to sleep, I hear her talking to the picture. Sometimes she says, "I love you," sometimes, "I miss you,"

For all of us who need an incantation against the absolute evil of Netanyahu's speech to Congress today, I offer "Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography" by Ntozake Shange smith.edu/people/ntozake…

Tired, by Langston Hughes 🖤

Once upon a time, the UN passed this resolution. Now universities and state laws are criminalizing those who denounce this violent political ideology, claiming that it’s discriminatory to do so. This is the Orwellian upside down world we live in.

In "Defending Rumba in Havana" Maya J Berry examines Black working-class rumba as a way of knowing to account for the embodied spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in contemporary #Cuba. Read the free introduction on our website now. #Dance ow.ly/3nrM50TVb5u

Save 30% on #NewBook "Defending Rumba in Havana," by Maya J. Berry, which examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied and spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in post-Fidel Cuba. #Dance #Anthropology buff.ly/4j5maO5

Don’t miss Alejandro Escalante’s powerful new article in our latest issue! Escalante delves into how protest emerges as a form of care in the religious lives of community members in Loíza, Puerto Rico.

See you tonight at a gorgeous event for a powerful book: Maya J Berry’s Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred & the Black Corporeal Undercommons. Excited for D.P. is @dpurifoy.bsky.social a.randolph is baldwinvidal@bsky Petal Samuel, Tanya Shields & Renée Alexander Craft to engage! Duke University Press epiloguebooksch