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Monday!

Both events are linked below for registration, and we hope you can attend.

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I am pleased to share a few upcoming events:

Sunday, November 2, 2025, I will moderate an author panel at Toronto International Festival of Authors with authors Souvankham Thammavongsa & Ian Williams.

Then on November 3, 2025, my American Literature survey, Kind of Blue, will host Sampada Aranke.

Be bless . . . and buy Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius.

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My fourth-year seminar, Minor Morrison, will host @kinohi.bsky.social this Monday for his lecture:

What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.

Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)

The D’Angelo Cycle by I. Augustus Durham The Digital Home for Duke University Professor and Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal

Simply unbelievable.

And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔

There are no words but this was my offering, once.

For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:

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This event is all the more worth your presence because it will be my first public presentation of work from my forthcoming monograph, Be Real Black for Me: About the Matter of Roberta Flack (@dukepress.bsky.social)

See you then!

If you are in or around Toronto next Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 12-2p, you are invited to attend an important upcoming event at the Centre for the Study of the United States.

You had time today.

Check the link below to register for this lecture—I have no doubt it will be as intriguing as the short story itself.

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This Monday, October 6, 2025 at 3p, I am pleased to host Shaun Myers, Assistant Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh, for her lecture “Re-reading ‘Recitatif’ Through the Archive.” This lecture coincides with the seminar Minor Morrison in the Department of English, University of Toronto.

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And then to top it off, seeing Grace Jones, on tour with Janelle Monáe, ended my return to the DMV!

More soon . . .

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H/t to @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social for publicizing the event.

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Gratitude for presenting on Marvin Gaye, from #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social), at the Library of Congress for Black Music Month. Being invited to a space that hosted Toni Morrison and others gave me wings!

Check👇🏾 for links to my lecture and Library blog interview + more photos:

Tonight with DJ B-Sharp!

And there may still be spots to RSVP so check the link:

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See you then!

Tonight with @jenishawo.bsky.social! And still time to RSVP!

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Poster for Professor Durham talk on August 20 at Eaton on his book Stay Black and Die

Wednesday night talk at Eaton by Professor I Augustus Durham on his book “Stay Black and die: On Melancholy and Genius “ that includes a fascinating chapter on Marvin Gaye.

Come through, y’all!

If you are in or around DC one or both days, check the links to RSVP for the events and we look forward to seeing you there!

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Then Thursday August 21 @ 8p, I and DJ B-Sharp will commemorate the 25th anniversary of e. badu’s Mama’s Gun with a public listening session + discussion.

Both events will be at The Eaton with the aid of @mahoganybooks.bsky.social (8/20) and Chuck Levin’s (8/21).

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For Black August, I am elated to share a two-day collaboration—h/t Aryn Bussey and Nina Ligon—with The Eaton DC:

Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).

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Images from the event:

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Likewise, we recorded the event so check the link below—who knew it’d be so unwieldy!—and the passcode to access it.

gratitude to Josué Perea and Cameron Johnson for the invitation and here’s to sonically conspiring again in the future. 🎶

And be on the lookout this Fall for more events with the Center, including a monthly Hip Hop Musica Divina series and more; follow the Center’s page 👆🏾 for more info and details.

Having the record be the thought object for the occasion allowed me to return to my chapter on the album, “Love | Kendrick,” from #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) and expand on it alongside musings from and about the film Sinners—

In June, I was grateful to collaborate with the Center for Spiritual Imagination to inaugurate its Audio Divina series with “How Much a Dollar Cost” from To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar.

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