AALCS

Welcome to the official Twitter Account of the African American Literature and Culture Society!

[AALCS @AALCS_Tweets]

It's October 3--which means it's time for you to start drafting your proposal to join the #AALCS in San Diego for the 31st @AmLit_ALA Conference in May! This year's theme is the frontier/borders. Proposals due by 1/10/20. Full CFP/submission details here: https://t.co/s5xZP5zJb2

[Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @DigBlk]

Let's diversify #DH!
Application review for the #DigBlk Mellon Big Ten Pre-Doc Fellowship begins in a few weeks.
APPLY NOW!👉https://t.co/ksLJq353oV

[Clemmie Harris @HarrisClemmie]

It is exciting to see our forthcoming book on Black political activism in Philadelphia featured in Temple University Press’s promotional announcement for new books in spring ‘22.

Onward!

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Tired by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

Langston Hughes Papers https://t.co/8PHmLZxa7D

[SchomburgCenter @SchomburgCenter]

Next Thursday, April 8 at 6:30 PM: Join the conversation between 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize winner Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and Dr. Thavolia Glymph. The two will discuss Jones-Rogers's book, They Were Her Property. https://t.co/QMqBPZR8Nv #SchomburgCenter

[DukeEnglish @Duke_English]

Join us tomorrow  at 3:30 p.m. for a conversation between Professors Jarvis McInnis & Derrick R. Spires to discuss Spires’ book, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States. Register at: https://t.co/DSF4kTLCLs.

[J.T. Roane @JTRoane]

Excited for this upcoming series of discussions beginning March 31 at 5:30 pm EST and extending at the same time for every Wed. through April 28, 2021. We have keynotes by @FreeBlackTX & @AMReese07 as well as a powerful lineup of Black artists, intellectuals, organizers & farmers

[P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle]

If you're working on this pioneering, bold, fearless Black intellectual, journalist, emigrationist, and legal advocate, please submit! #CiteBlackWomenSunday. Share widely!

[Margaret Fuller Society @FullerSociety]

Call for Papers! “Mattering in the 19C & Beyond: US Transcendentalisms, Racism, and Repair.” 200-word abstracts due March 20: https://t.co/er0j34hlii. Help us spread the word! #phdchat @EmersonSociety @AALCS_Tweets @recoveringwc19 @blkwomenstudies @MelvilleSociety @amlitjournal

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online https://t.co/lMW6FqFpGz

[Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs @tamekahobbs]

I'm honored to serve as moderator for this powerful series "Faith and Fortitude: Stories of Black Women in Florida. The first session is tomorrow. Register today: https://t.co/TnuobVHw6o

[SchomburgCenter @SchomburgCenter]

Starting TOMORROW, Feb. 26 at 7 PM: @LitPartners is having a Tribute to Toni Morrison. Get ready for a Song of Solomon Marathon Reading by Margaret Atwood, Brit Bennett, and more! @deardarkness https://t.co/Ku6AlOfPt5 #SchomburgCenter

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

The newest book in the Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series, "Selected Writings on Race and Difference," will be out in April. You can read Paul Gilroy's introduction now for free on our website! #StuartHall
https://t.co/itA6gT0DE7

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

The Bluest Eye, a novel, 1970
Uncorrected proof. Presentation inscription: "From Toni Morrison - the Brownest eye." https://t.co/55U4nprfDg @YCAL_JWJ

[John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. @fhi_duke]

Next Friday's #tgiFHI talk features @ProfMcInnis of @Duke_English. He focuses on @TuskegeeUniv, an HBCU built on the site of a former plantation, and considers it as a site of renewal as well as depletion – not only of the land, but of Black ontologies. https://t.co/GbVVrA6ai5

[Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @DigBlk]

Don’t miss tonight’s discussion with @afroamcivilwar, @profgabrielle, & @drkmttr82 as they discuss the Colored Conventions!

Tonight, February 9th at 7pm
Organizing Black Families
Register here⤵️
https://t.co/F2iRjl9U5Y

[Joy 🐎 Priest @Dalai_Mama_]

My poem is accompanied by Kara Walker’s aquatint etch “no world” (2010), now housed at the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso. This poem is also an ode to the work of Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns. https://t.co/ETkgt6O7WL

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

"Dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play ... I have tentatively chosen as a title ... a line from one of your poems ... 'a raisin in the sun' ... " Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes, 1958 in LH Papers https://t.co/NGHxzkmxDi

[ABWH Truth @ABWHTruth]

REGISTER ASAP!!

NEXT THURSDAY FEB. 11: @drvholden, @UBuffalo Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Diversity Innovation, is hosting: "Digital Footprints: The Freedom on the Move Project." @fotmproject. https://t.co/MnsaRCeqEK

[Woodson Institute @WoodsonUVA]

OTD famed Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes was born. In addition to publishing volumes of his own poetry, Hughes translated the work of writers throughout the African diaspora & the Americas, including Nicolás Guillén, whose *Cuba Libre,* he translated from the Spanish.

[ABWH Truth @ABWHTruth]

REGISTER NOW FOR:

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Choices, Careers and Living Black History

An amazing conversation on February 11 at 5pm between @ericaadunbar @DainaRameyBerry and @profgabrielle, moderated by @docmoodyturner! @blkwomenradical @jmjafrx

https://t.co/9MKF5Qzytq