historian of early black film culture & NYC // assistant prof @PCHistoryDept // associate editor @GothamCenter // really into cats // tweets my own
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Excited to share my chat in @TheBrooklynRail with @prof_alopez on her new book Reel Freedom from @TempleUnivPress
brooklynrail.org/2025/07/fil…
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Pero Dagbovie was the featured guest of the Fourth Annual IDI Speaker Series last week, where he discusses his new book, "Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University."
Photo from Dane Robison
#MSUHistory #MSUSocialScience
come out next week (5/8, 6pm) to support an amazing local bookstore & hear a lil about "Reel Freedom" !!!!
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🎬 Discover how Black New Yorkers used #NYC theaters to claim the city as their own 🏙️ Join a free virtual launch of "Reel Freedom" with author @prof_alopez on April 16th! untappedcities.com/reel-free…
today is pub day for REEL FREEDOM!! Here's a picture as proof that it really does exist & that @PCHistoryDept is amazing and followed through on that book cake promise.
you can buy it (the book, not the cake unfortunately) here: tupress.temple.edu/books/ree…
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My advisor just dropped a new article.
She is going to come out with a new book in August entitled: Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
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"[R]ejecting the racist logic of discrimination and troubling language of pathology. Lewis gives audiences a Harlem full of life ... a home, refuge, and site of joy." @prof_alopez on filmmaker Edward Lewis "Life in Harlem" themetropole.blog/2025/02/19…
Ahh! "Reel Freedom" is out so soon, but you can pre-order it (if that's your thing) AND get 25% off (PO25S).
tupress.temple.edu/books/ree…
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New to WFPP: Alyssa Lopez (@prof_alopez) on the career of exhibitor Maria C. Downs!
"Mrs. Maria C. Downs (née Godoy), variously referred to as owner, proprietor, and manager, opened the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem in 1909."
wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ma…
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Significance of Black History: A Century of Observance, 1926 to 2026 #CFP January 1, 2025, is the deadline for manuscript submissions journals.uchicago.edu/journa…
An amazing piece by @lheltonian from her amazing new book!!
Also new on the blog, scholar Laura E. Helton provides an excerpt from her work on Arthur Schomburg, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. gothamcenter.org/blog/thinki…
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Director position, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University. They are hoping to have this position filled in July.
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A retrospective of Oscar Micheaux's films, dedicated to the late Pearl Bowser, is starting tomorrow at @FilmForumNYC. The programming includes seven restorations, speakers, and live accompaniment.
For @ebertvoices, I wrote about Micheaux's legacy.
rogerebert.com/features/retr…
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Yesterday we filed our final brief in the lawsuit by 4 corporate publishers against our nonprofit library: blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/…
Here’s why we’re still fighting for library digital rights, and why YOU should care 🧵
ALT Internet Archive logo in white on black.
Looking to hire a graduate student to do some archival research for me at Stanford libraries. Anyone interested should reach out & we can talk more! Please share!!
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I'm grateful to @prof_alopez and @RaePitkin for giving me an opportunity to share some of my research on the revitalization of film & TV production in NYC ca. 1975-83 with the Gotham Center: gothamcenter.org/blog/openin…