David Anderson

For my LA folks...

Art + Practice, Leimert Park | Oct 11, 2025 – Mar 7, 2026
Regular hours: Tue - Sat 11am - 5pm

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

Trade paperback edition, against a red background of the bell hooks' book Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery. The front of the book features a black-and-white photo of a smiling bell hooks with a long scarf draped around her neck.

The Free Black Women's Library, based in Bed-Stuy, is launching Sisters of the Yam/A Black Girl Book Club. Presumably named for the bell hooks book, the book club is for "Black girls, femmes and gender non-conforming youth ages 13-17." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #books #AmReading #Brooklyn #NYC

Robert Spano returns to Louisville for first time in 30 years A new music champion conducts two living composers, and Rachmaninoff's third concerto with Tony Siqi Yun

Talked to Robert Spano about growing up in new music: finally conducting your childhood idols. He’s also got three operas on his bucket list. www.lpm.org/classical/20...

"More of this delicious rope, Professor Sunstein?"
"Thank you, yes."

Doing my duty this morning.

After a decade of work, here is the unboxing of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction! Cloth ISBN 9780197804490. Use discount code AUFLY30 to get 30% off at global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Sad news. Hermeto Pascoal, "wizard of Brazilian music," has left us at age 89.
www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/hermeto-pasc...

The history of Black travel during Jim Crow is archived at the Green Book Project. Contribute to that history. Know a neighbor or elder with Green Book memories? Invite them to share their story.

Submission form here: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu

#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
#EconSky

Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...

Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

Come be my colleague! We are indeed casting a wide net in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY search. **All** fields, areas, and periods of the History of Technology will be considered! #historyoftechnology #STS

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Sunset like a painting 😮

Enumclaw, Washington
TT: Anna & Nitin

Bucknell University Press to Cease Operations Since Bucknell provost Wendy F. Sternberg announced plans to shutter the university press next summer, AUPresses has entered talks with university officials in the hopes of coming up with “a mutually ...

"In an email sent to Bucknell University faculty and staff last month, provost Wendy F. Sternberg announced that the university press would cease operations on June 30, 2026, citing a need to redirect funds to more “student-focused” functions."

I'm glad she's doing much better.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We! Are! Hiring!

The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26

More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572

#blackademia #academia #PhDSky

🧵The Second Middle Passage
Between 1808–1860, over 1 million enslaved people were relocated from the Upper South to the Deep South through the domestic slave trade.
Auction posters document how this trade was organized and advertised. (1/6)

Hope you feel better soon, and that you record plenty of word jazz in the meantime.

St. John Center Bingo & Briefs Thursday, September 18, 2025, 6:00 p.m. @ St John Center. Bring a pack of men's underwear in M, L, or XL and receive a Free Gift.

Louisville folks, please share widely with your networks:

Sep 18th, come play bingo with me & SJC! Bring your friends and family for a fun, feel-good evening!

You can make a tangible difference to your neighbors by joining us and/or donating a package (or 5 or 10) of men's briefs to SJC.

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

Sadly, this reminds me of my son's dorm, in which a student presumed to know which students were rightfully admitted and which weren't, and felt quite confident walking up to people to say, "You belong here" or "You don't belong here."

Cream background with a black and white photo of author Sallie Bingham in the center. Underneath the photo credit reads: Sallie Bingham in 2015. Photo by Camila Motta. In the lower right corner is the black Sarabande Books logo.

Cream background. The lower right corner is the black Sarabande Books logo. In center is text that reads: Sarabande Books has been processing the news and grieving the loss of beloved author, activist, and trailblazing feminist Sallie Bingham, who passed away last week on August 6. Sarabande has been working with Sallie for over 20 years and during that time she was not just a cherished author but artistic collaborator and trusted friend of longtime editor and Sarabande’s Founder, Sarah Gorham: "Sallie Bingham was a fast friend. I loved best her humor, intelligence, writing talents—Sallie was never so happy as when working on a book. She was a generous benefactor of many literary and feminist projects. I was lucky enough to live in Hopscotch House for a long stay, and our walks together were wonderful. I will miss her dearly."

Cream background. The lower right corner is the black Sarabande Books logo. In center is text that reads: Sallie was a staunch advocate for women and a beacon for the arts as is evidenced throughout her published work and the courageous life she lived – some of which is documented through her Sarabande publications. In 2002 we published our first book with Sallie, Transgressions, a collection of short stories, and went on to publish five more books with her - notably her memoir The Blue Box in 2014 and her most recent memoir, Little Brother which came out in 2022. We are honored and grateful to Sallie for trusting Sarabande to publish so many of her groundbreaking books.

Cream background. The lower right corner is the black Sarabande Books logo. In center is text that reads: Sarabande’s Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief Kristen Renee Miller will always value the opportunity to have worked alongside an icon: “Sallie was a rare and brilliant person. A beloved author and visionary, she was deeply humane and tenacious about the causes she valued. In her literary works, Sallie brought this energy to the page again and again, and we remain the beneficiaries of her insight, wit, and ceaseless curiosity. This loss is a great one.” Our deepest condolences to the Bingham family. Sallie will forever live in our hearts and through her powerful words and lifelong service to the arts and advocacy for women.

Sarabande has been processing the news and grieving the loss of beloved author and feminist activist Sallie Bingham, who passed away on Aug 6. We are grateful to Sallie for trusting us to publish so many of her books for the past 20 years. Our deepest condolences to the Bingham family.

Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105.

I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

I assume that she did. She seemed to be becoming increasingly frustrated with people coming into her feed telling her what she should or shouldn't post about. I hope she's o.k., but it's a shame because I genuinely enjoyed her posts.

As I enter the final stretch of my PhD journey, I've been been thinking about some of the things I wish I’d known before I started. Here’s eight I can remember...

It’s been forever since I’ve spent an actual day in Lexington, KY. Is there anywhere good to eat downtown now?

this hits hard in the summer in which I left an institution serving a poor state and went to one where yesterday I was handed a copy of the Iliad to start preparing for teaching the required freshman humanities course

More investment in LOC's excellent Chronicling America resource! We love to see it

Good Lord.