well I'm in floods of tears www.thetimes.com/article/5ecd...
When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found...
Unironically love this poem with all my heart.
A reminder that the challenges of public commemoration are ultimately political challenges - what do we choose to remember? why? how? It's easy to see politics and power at work today. They were just as much at work 100 years ago, though that is harder for some people to acknowledge or even see.
Interesting piece on the challenges of how to utilize public spaces that once honored the Confederacy. 🗃️ www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Bryan Stevenson of Equal Justice Initiative and James McAnally of Counterpublic are finding ways to navigate all the controverseys and debates.
What happens when I listen to two episodes of @ifbookspod.bsky.social back-to-back on my drive home? I have a dream that Amy Chua is giving me a tour of her house, a la Eric Adams. 😬😂
Come find me in Newcastle, or online, to hear about my current research into postwar Marseille, industrial pollution, urban development, and petrochemical toxicity. Total downer of a topic, but I promise to tell jokes (badly).
Just finished reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (would recommend), and it's the first time I've seen an author thank Scrivener in the acknowledgements!
Whoa. This is a huge deal. "NAACP Legal Defense Fund Records Newly Digitized and Now Available Online from the Library of Congress" newsroom.loc.gov/news/naacp-l...
A major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress.
I reviewed David Olusoga’s new book for the Conversation. Black History *should* be for every day of the year.
David Olusoga’s new book joins the struggle to make Black history mainstream
Though dominated by British and US events, Black History for Every Day of the Year shows the connections of people of African descent across the world.
In #AHAPerspectives, graduate columnist Isabel Naquin reflects on how a visit to the Houmas House museum "embodies a historic tension that defines both my heritage and the colonial landscape of Louisiana." 🗃️
Isabel Naquin contends with her family history after visiting the Houmas House’s Great River Road Museum.
I started fundraising for the Ida B Wells Monument in 2018. The monument was designed by the great Richard Hunt and dedicated in 2021. Last week, I finally saw the monument in person. I was unexpectedly overcome and I haven't found words to express myself. Ida truly deserves this recognition.
