Jim Casey

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

- put down the damn AI.

Dorothy seated at a restaurant table signing books with plants to her right and a painting behind her.

GET YOUR CALENDAR OUT 🗓️ and write these two dates down…

10/16, 2p ET USA: Dorothy Berry’s (@dorothyjberry.bsky.social) The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities available for purchase. The first 50 copies sold will be signed 🫢 www.weherepress.org

Happy 195th birthday to the Colored Conventions movement!

The first convention debated whether this country would ever be a place for Black people to enjoy their full civil rights and citizenship. As those fights continue today, it is powerful reading omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/70

I come from generations of freedom fighters who taught us to fight oppressive forces. Whether it’s fighting for a livable wage, to make housing affordable for all, or stopping the genocide – I’m answering the call of my forbearers. I'm Chris Rabb, and I’m running for Congress.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

This week 14th Amendment Center webinar series begins. Tuesday & Wednesday night will be focused on the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Follow @the14thcenter.bsky.social
REGISTER NOW!
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Congratulations! What wonderful news. How lucky for UK!

Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches
dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html

We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!

Save the Date Douglass Day Feb 13, 2026 Featuring the Colored Conventions Project DouglassDay.org Image of 19th century people looking at us and debating in a hall.

Did you hear?

Douglass Day 2026 is on the way!
Friday, February 13, 2026
Sign up today: DouglassDay.org

Oh, and this year we are featuring a massive *new* trove of rediscovered documents from our friends at the @ccp-org.bsky.social! 🎂

(And yes, we are aware of the Substack situation. We are figuring out where to go next. Suggestions welcomed!)

Save the Date for Douglass Day 2026! Help us keep the love for Black History strong! Join us for Douglass Day 2026!

❤️💙 the @douglassday.bsky.social community so much!

Save the date for Friday, Feb 13th!

Newsletter went out this morning. Nearly 800 people signed up in the first hour!!

douglassday.substack.com/p/save-the-d...

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Screenshot of a newspaper advertisements showing text "Now Exhibiting at 509 Broadway, New York" and a bunch of small print. The image shows a goat and two giraffes.

Camelopards on Broadway - with goats from the Holy Land!

Looks amazing! We know all too well those kinds of physical spaces are next to impossible without bonkers amounts of work. Congrats to all!

Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward - Colored Conventions Project

SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at:
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Happy New Chronicling America Day!

Chronicling America is one of the great shining examples of public investment in our libraries and histories. The National Newspaper Digitization Program is special and well worth fighting to protect.

Congrats to all whose years of work made this day possible!

Couldn't agree more. I know some people are still fighting the good fight on the inside, but even still... I keep thinking all the valiant public servants at the NEH/IMLS & co. gave us the gift of being able to see all kinds of things as possible. Still don't know what we do in that wake.

I have always liked reading these NEH announcements. It's great to read about people getting funding for cool new projects. But good grief - the absence of the Office of Digital Humanities is SO LOUD.

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls newrepublic.com/post/198550/... via @newrepublic.com

AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation In this paper, we argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed...

I mean... @profdancy.bsky.social & his lab has been doing this work. Got a bunch more in store arxiv.org/abs/2111.03687

I'm working on a new proposal these days with a bunch of ridiculously smart and creative people. Getting to riff on their genuinely original ideas and deep bodies of work, well, I really can't recommend it enough.

Yes!! Cuz you know a fifth of the syllabus is already at "Hey, check out this really smart thing that Dorothy Berry wrote."

I am thinking about a new version of my "intro to dh" next year.

CCP, Douglass Day, CBDR, etc are all based so thoroughly on the principles and lessons of various organizing traditions. I'd love to make that more visible in classes. "We Want People's Community Control of Modern Technology 101"

YouTube video by Center for the Study of Rhetoric Race and Religion 2025 Summer Symposium: Works in Progress

You don't want to miss this!! If you can't attend and would like to sponsor someone to attend, please scan the code at the end of the video.
And one more thing: PLEASE SHARE this time!!
Thanks!!

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Facing this Court A Sober Look at What to Expect in Trump v. Casa And What We Do About It

"We must create an atmosphere of expertise about birthright citizenship, and about the 14th Amendment, and about its significance in our lives."

sherrilyn.substack.com/p/facing-thi...

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I cannot tell yall how excited I am for the things we have cookin up involving the new Liberatory tech project & crew within @digblk.bsky.social 👀.

Excerpts from proofs of the title page of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction by Eric Gardner and of the Contents page. The latter lists: Acknowledgments, page ix; Chapter 1, Strangers and Neighbors: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Life and Work, page 1; Chapter 2, Origin Stories, page 29; Chapter 3, Reconstructing an Abolitionist Voice, page 66; Chapter 4, “Go on”: Harper’s Challenges to Reconstruction, page 94; Chapter 5, “Lay the whole foundation anew”: Harper in the Thick of Reconstruction, page 134; Chapter 6, The Fifteenth Amendment and Epic Struggles, page 176; Chapter 7, Endings and Not, page 221; Notes, page 263; Works Cited, page 295; Index, page 305.

Proofs are proofed. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction is on track for 1 Oct release from Oxford UP. The book wouldn’t exist w/o support from the NEH & so many librarians & scholars committed to the fact that Black history is American history. We still have so much to learn.