The Colored Conventions Project is a collaborative that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through convention records and digital exhibits.
PSU/University of Delaware
Joined January 2013
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Join the Library of Congress for a Douglass Day 2025 Transcribe-a-Thon and Other Black History Month Events
Press release (Feb 4, 2025)
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Hey friends at #AHA25!
Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with @Crowd_LOC!
See DouglassDay.org to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!
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Wrapping up 2024 and almost finishing our list of #slaveryarchive most anticipated books of 2025: looking forward to reading historian @HilaryGreen77's new book Unforgettable Sacrifice, out in February 2025, pre-order here fordhampress.com/97815315085…
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Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent. interc.pt/3ZxMd8L
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Spillers subsequently concluded her lecture with this powerfully apposite comment: "What our writers have paid imaginative witness to is the fact that there is no human loneliness and alone-ness remotely comparable to that of the enslaved beyond the reach and scope of love and freedom. The day that the enslaved decides to act out the threat of death that hangs over her, by risking her life, is the first day of wisdom. And whether or not one survives is perhaps less important than the recognition that, unless one is free, love cannot and will not matter."
Note #11
Sexton, J. (2016). Afro-pessimism: The Unclear Word. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, (29).
ALT Vanderbilt professor Hortense Spillers speaks in the Barker Center on Tuesday afternoon about revolutionary women in history as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
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'Spelman College has scored a major coup with the hiring of award-winning filmmaker Shola Lynch as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture.'
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Georgetown Names Soyica Diggs Colbert as Interim Provost - Georgetown University georgetown.edu/news/georgeto…
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Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is now accepting submissions for our special issue on the 90th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’s book, Black Reconstruction in America.
bit.ly/3CvqyoN
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Hey Teachers!
🎂 Join us for DOUGLASS DAY!🎂
On Feb 14 we are transcribing Black history with the @Crowd_LOC! Open to all!
💻 Free curriculum coming soon!
📽️ Live Broadcast
🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off
📣 Special guests!
DouglassDay.org #NCTE #NCTE24 #NCSS #NCSS24
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Assistant Professor of Museum Studies and History (Tenure Line) jobs.chronicle.com/job/37756…
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Futures of Black Digital Humanities opening night keynote feat. Dana A. Williams, a collaboration between @NMAAHC, @ProjectHBW, and Howard’s Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics.
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Herman L. Bennet, President of @RSAorg, will give a talk titled “Subjects and Subjection: Africans, Christianity and the Making of the Early Modern Black Body”. The event, organized by @Hec_tor_LG, will take place on 11/18, in 121 Borland.
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Lori Ginzberg, Prof Emeritus of @PSUHistory and @PennStateWGSS, will be discussing her new book, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History, with Tamala Edwards, Thursday, Nov 14, 7:30 pm, at the Parkway Central Library. libwww.freelibrary.org/progr…
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WE'RE HIRING! The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era seeks a new Production and Communications Manager for the Journal of the Civil War Era and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. This is a part-time position.
More information: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/ne… 🌟
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.@LeftOfBlack host and @DukeU Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Dr. James Smethurst, who discusses his book, 'Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South' (@UNC_Press)
leftofblack.org/podcast/left…
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An Indigenous perspective on AI and the harm it can cause on our communities (a thread, made by me)
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Spillers Club has decided that we are devoting January 2025 to Black, White, and In Color’s (2003) Preface, Acknowledgements, and Introduction. Then, we plan to revisit Mama’s Baby, Psychoanalysis and Race, and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Then, we plan to read the other 13 essays 📖
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"As Elizabeth McRae has described it in her excellent study Mothers of Massive Resistance, white women are white supremacy’s “constant gardeners"."
aaihs.org/white-women-and-re…
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I’m leading a reading and discussion-centered workshop on afropessimism drawing on texts by Hartman, Wilderson, Farley and Ihmoud to support @sameerproject.
I’d love to see you on December 20th, 6-8pm EST.
Register here: workshops4gaza.com/calendar/…
