Young, Gifted, & Black. I made a career off reminiscing. Curator, Oral Historian, & Archives Consultant. Good Trouble. Views are mine, hues are my moms.
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“There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself--whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc.--because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.”-The Lorde
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'We won’t be erased': Academics defend Black studies amid program cuts abcnews.com/US/wont-erased-a…
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This is a crisis.
Northwestern University is reportedly shuttering its 80-year-old Program of African Studies, laying off staff and keeping students in the dark
It is the "first formal academic program focused on Africa in the United States."
thepurplewire.beehiiv.com/p/…
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Submissions are now open for the 2027 Cave Canem Prize 🗣️ This year's judge is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Cave Canem Fellow, Jericho Brown.
Submissions close April 30 at 11:59 PM ET 🔗 Visit bit.ly/cave-canem-prize-27 to submit.
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“We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”
- Toni Morrison
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you do not need a graduate degree to be considered an archivist. Because what do you think people were doing stateside prior to 1981 and in Europe before 1821?
Archives existed long before credentialing did.
Don’t gatekeep.
Xoxo
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Life is good indeed.
Currently, sitting on the side of the road in St. Croix eating chicken pate’s with my cousin @_LouisiBama . In a Lorde state of mind. Life is good.
lol, this is the high school I graduated from. It’s a new day. I too cut the fool walking cross stage, but there was no consequence. Let da kids live mayne
