I enjoyed this conversation on how I became a historian, how I arrived at researching on Antigua & Barbuda, and how looking at small places still raises big questions about how, amid poverty and colonialism, black people struggled to be free. Thanks for having me @NewBooksCarib.

RT @ThiaBallerina: You don’t even have free parking at the hospital ffs.

RT @ThiaBallerina: You’re confused. Americans don’t have health care, we have insurance.

RT @babadookspinoza: Someday soon, what’s been obvious to so many of us from the beginning will be understood by everyone: that if a city c….

RT @emanabdelhadi: It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are….

RT @BiancaTylek: Some GOOD NEWS for a change! This one is personal — it’s been a long time in the making. Thank you to all those who helped….

RT @bluepashminas: columbia just suspended 80 students at once ranging from 1-3 year long suspensions & barnard hasn’t even released their….

RT @NC_Renic: Adulthood is just saying, "next month should be less hectic" over and over until you die.

RT @insidereesmind: Sudan is being starved like Gaza, but receiving WAY less attention. There are two different groups of people being anni….

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RT @CulturedModesty: Wesleyan University’s Department of American Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Prof….

RT @ItsLovelyLaveau: Hang it in the Louvre

RT @SebastianAvenue: N.E. Heartbreak x New Edition .Video directed by Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

RT @keatingssixth: Start the day over fr. Put it in the trash. Try again.

RT @DragonflyJonez: 🕊️🕊️

RT @Phil_Lewis_: A statement from Dr. Martin Luther King's family on the release of the records:. "During our father’s lifetime, he was rel….

I hope the two of them get to chop it up in the great beyond. Just feeling terrible about this one. An incredible loss.

RT @KevCoke6: “The Cosby Show” understandably has a dark cloud around it now, but Malcolm Jamal Warner as Theo is one of the most important….

Randomly Malcolm Jamal Warner & Michelle Thomas (Justine on the Cosby Show) knew some ppl in a family from my church in the Bx. The two of them walked in a wedding I went to as a kid. A thrill just to be in the same room as them for a few hrs. They were gorgeous. RIP to them both.

RT @franklinleonard: This one hurts.

RT @zellieimani: 'The Cosby Show' Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dead At 54 From Accidental Drowning