Christopher Tounsel

Next week I’ll be participating in a virtual panel on "Pathways and Impediments to Peace in Sudan" hosted by Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute. I'll be joined by Nicki Kindersley and Michael Woldemariam @mikewoldemariam.bsky.social. See link below for more information--

kellogg.nd.edu/virtual-afri...

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West
Born March 9, 1892

📣 New Issue of Global Black Thought is here!

This special issue examines the legacies of Brown v. Board of Education through the intellectual and activist labor of Black women.

Link to articles: muse.jhu.edu/journal/893

I am still learning.

Last words of Michelangelo
Born March 6, 1475

Episode 7 of Lost Credits is live! 🎙️
In "This Show Changed Me, Pt. II," Dr. Ashleigh Greene Wade discusses "America's Next Top Model" with Dr. Timeka Tounsel @timekatounsel-phd.bsky.social.

Listen here: lostcreditspod.com/episodes/epi...

May thy hopes never be blasted;
May thy joys never cease;
May thy love be true and lasting,
And day by day increase.

James Madison Bell
Died March 4, 1902

Sudan condemns Iranian missile strikes but excludes UAE from statement - Sudan Tribune February 28, 2026 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strong condemnation on Saturday of Iranian missile strikes targeting Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain, while notably exclu...

"Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strong condemnation on Saturday of Iranian missile strikes targeting Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain, while notably excluding the United Arab Emirates from its official diplomatic response," according to Sudan Tribune

sudantribune.com/article/311224

Invisible things are the only realities.

William Godwin
Born March 3, 1756

Tomorrow I'll be giving a virtual lecture on Sudan at Northeastern Illinois University’s 12th Annual Conference on Genocide and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora 🇸🇩

📅 Date: March 3, 2026
🕒 Time: 3:45–4:45 p.m. CST (Zoom)
💻 Registration link: www.neiu.edu/academics/ou...

Excited to host Dr. Nicholas McLeod (Univ. of Cincinnati) for a Zoom talk on his forthcoming book "Raising the Black Star: West Indians, Pan-Africanism, and Nation Building in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana" 🇬🇭

Date: Friday, Mar. 6, 2026
Time: noon-1 pm PST
Register here: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

Elias Hicks
Died February 27, 1830

Episode 6 of Lost Credits is live! 🎙️

Dr. Timeka Tounsel @timekatounsel-phd.bsky.social reflects on how “Moesha” shaped her and other Black women and girls through its focus on a Black teenager girl and the agency she claimed.

Listen here: lostcreditspod.com/episodes/epi...

The author of the Declaration of Independence said once that he trembled for his country when he remembered that God was just. And he did well to do so.

Archibald Grimké
Died February 25, 1930

There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer.

Honus Wagner
Born February 24, 1874

My greatest honor is that I come from the lap of the oppressed.

Augusto Sandino
Died February 21, 1934

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Louis Kahn
Born February 20, 1901

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Louis Kahn
Born February 20, 1901

Episode 5 of Lost Credits is live! 🎙️
In "Streaming Black Girlhood," Timeka N. Tounsel @timekatounsel-phd.bsky.social and Ashleigh Wade explore how shows like “Bel-Air” reimagine Black girls through storylines that resist adultification.

Listen here: lostcreditspod.com/episodes/epi...

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Martin Luther
Died February 18, 1546

I hear that melting-pot stuff, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

Jesse Jackson
Died February 17, 2026

My purpose in this book has been to give rape its history. Now we must deny it a future.

Susan Brownmiller
Born February 15, 1935

At least 6,000 killed over 3 days during RSF attack on Sudan’s el-Fasher, UN says Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed more than 6,000 people in three days during an assault on el-Fasher, the U.N. Human Rights Office has said.

"More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality” in Sudan’s Darfur region in late October, according to the United Nations", per Samy Magdi @apnews.com

apnews.com/article/suda...

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass
Born February 14, 1818

Episode 4 of Lost Credits is live! 🎙️

Dr. Timeka N. Tounsel @timekatounsel-phd.bsky.social and Dr. Ashleigh Wade explore how television shapes and distorts portrayals of Black girls and women through controlling images.

Listen here: lostcreditspod.com/episodes/epi...

Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James Bryant Conant
Died February 11, 1978

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

Charles Lamb
Born February 10, 1775

Somewhere in the Bible it say Jesus’ hair was like lamb’s wool.

Alice Walker
Born February 9, 1944

Great point! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏾

What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another.

Charles Dickens
Born February 7, 1812

The war is over, but the fighting has just begun.

John Gibbon
Died February 6, 1896