Scholar, activist, storyteller, & groundbreaking thinker – W.E.B Du Bois helped shape the fight for civil rights and the way we understand identity and justice in America.
“American Masters—W.E.B Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause” premieres TOMORROW, May 19 at 9/8c on @PBS.
The second lung of the world is on fire. I met with a frontline organizer from the Congo yesterday, and I’m still shaking. We need to talk more about what’s happening in the Congolese forests.
🥳 my new article on financialization and spatialized anti-Blackness just dropped in the new issue of Transforming Anthro! big shoutout to the editors and anonymous reviewers 🙏🏽
Our spring issue is out now! With articles on Black geographies and ecological care, educational reform, institutional exclusion, and residential segregation, this issue moves across sites of US Empire while insisting on conjuring geographies of our own.
That is obscenely expensive. Comparable to the cost of Yankee stadium, which of course was built in the most expensive city in america.
And the only reason it's so expensive is because taxpayers are footing the bill.
“If the condemned of the earth do not understand their pasts and know the responsibilities that lie upon them in the future, all on the earth will be condemned. That is the kind of world we live in.” C. L. R James - From Dubois to Fanon
Congratulations to CRE² postdoctoral fellow Sophia Monegro whose article has won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2026 Maria Stewart Article Prize for the best journal article published in Global Black Thought.
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Great conversation with Willie J. Wright, in conversation about urban studies, Black geographies, and Black Studies as life studies. Listen here or on most streams:
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New article alert! Check out Matthew C. Reilly's "An Archaeology of Return: Implications for African Diasporic Archaeologies." #Anthropology#Archaeology
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How Raoul Peck Became a Cinematic Griot | Lovia Gyarkye
The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
https://t.co/YqrcZ2uf71 | @HammerandHope