I’m glad know-your-place aggression resonates as folk watch the UNC/Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure issue. Your comments reminded me of this graphic someone at Georgia Southern University made. Note: this was created before my book FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE was published

Know-your-place aggression comes in countless forms, but the goal is always the same: to send a powerful message about how little the nation thinks of certain groups (so you’d better remember your place). Physical brutality isn’t enough; gotta add insult to devastating injury.

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from Alexander Chee’s HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOGRAPHICAL NOVEL:. “‘… people thinking about your death, that’ll put you in the grave. And besides,’ she adds, ‘if you didn’t get your business dealt with when someone dies, that’s your own fault. You had every day before then to deal.’”.

Dr. Derrais Carter edited a multidimensional and multimedia experience called BLACK REVELRY. I’m honored that he made sure I got a hold of it! It’s an entire experience!

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RT @LindseyBoylan: One of the many many reasons I’ve always been a fan of @malcolmkenyatta.

RT @NMAAHC: One of the nation's most prolific African American organizers, Nannie Helen Burroughs, became a strident educator, church leade….

Over dinner, Saeed and I welcomed Nick into the CMH/BOS Crew! What a great time! Very appropriate summer behavior!. Here’s to more and more “joyful rigor” and “invisible angels”!!!

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But, now, we get a sense of how she shaped that literary landscape by editing other authors. Congratulations, Dr. Williams, and THANK YOU!

TONI AT RANDOM is the gift you *knew* Dana A. Williams would make it!!!. We understood that Toni Morrison shaped much of the literary landscape that means so much to us. She did that with her writing, which compels readers to go back to it (in every genre), again and again. ….

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RT @rapsody: This is not a performance. This is a tourism walk and conversation. ♥️✨.

“I love how Beyoncé took the box they tried to put her in, flipped it over, and MADE IT A STAGE.” ~Robin Arzón + Kirsten Ferguson . AMEN! My #HoustonHomie been a #Boss. last week, I walked twice, 0 nonstop runs, but did 4(!) personal training sessions. Starting earlier this week

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my 1st book LIVING WITH LYNCHING; my 2020 book FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE; my Broadview edition of INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL; Harriet Jacobs’s hometown of Edenton, NC; the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB); and the book I’ve now begun writing. (Eek!).

Guggenheim fellows Carolyn Dever and Martha S. Jones; Mitchell S. Jackson’s Esquire article on Shedeur Sanders & the NFL; Rafael Walker’s article on Junot Díaz in the Chronicle of Higher Education; the one and only Charles Rowell; James Baldwin as a performance theorist;.

JHUP re-shared the podcast interview and kept the paywall off of my articles. So nice!!!. It's not even 30 minutes long, but we cover so much!. Topics include: know-your-place aggression; my conversation with Harvey Young in Public Books; Ford Foundation fellows;

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