Eliz J West @docejwest
professor, literary scholar: writings of the African diaspora. Biking, Tai Chi enthusiast. Envisioning a just, loving, prosperous America Joined November 2015-
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Black men were among the first cowboys in the U.S. but pop culture erased them from the Western milieu over time, creating misleading iconography of an Old West filled with white men on horseback. Our collections help document a more accurate picture. ⬇️ go.loc.gov/zo6250Rpaw8
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Summer is only a couple months away - invite your community on a literary adventure with new posters, bookmarks, and customizable library card art featuring everyone's favorite Beagle Scout, @Snoopy! Available now in the ALA store: bit.ly/44fQoXK
Proud to be representing @JacksonStateU and the HBCU History and Culture Access Consortium at this conference on the humanities. Our students are rockstars! Great to see our @FAMU_1887 Black Archives colleague and friend, Tim Barber, too. Thanks @AmherstCollege for the invite.
The newest episode of the @intersectsouth podcast featuring Hip Hop Consortium Fellow Akua Naru is now live! Listen here: t.gsu.edu/44kxQWs This podcast is hosted by Dr. Katie Acosta an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology!
Happy Founders Day!! It’s an honor to be a part of and to help lead our wonderful #CLAscholars Community! Join us in celebrating our 87th Founders Day by telling us who connected you to CLA and what you think our next initiatives should be! #CLAFoundersDay
Happy Founders Day!! It’s an honor to be a part of and to help lead our wonderful #CLAscholars Community! Join us in celebrating our 87th Founders Day by telling us who connected you to CLA and what you think our next initiatives should be! #CLAFoundersDay
My grad school dissertation chair and grad school director at the @uofmemphis — Ladrica & Verner — and we got to hangout together at this year’s Convention — I’m forever thankful! #CLAFoundersDay
My grad school dissertation chair and grad school director at the @uofmemphis — Ladrica & Verner — and we got to hangout together at this year’s Convention — I’m forever thankful! #CLAFoundersDay https://t.co/39OAelqRel
‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/… @guardian
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85 years ago today, Billie Holiday recorded the powerful and haunting song 'Strange Fruit,' shedding light on the dark reality of racism and lynching in America.
In celebration of @OnekaLaBennett’s new book, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, & Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond, Join us on April 24th as we discuss how extractive oil and sand ecologies are exposing women in the Caribbean to gendered violence & environmental harm.
On this day in 1975, Singer, dancer and activist Josephine Baker passed away. Did you know she was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air Force! She became the first Black woman laid to rest in France's Pantheon mausoleum, the storied tomb of heroes.
On this day in 1945, three Black baseball players including Jackie Robinson were attacked during tryouts for the Boston Red Sox. The team refused to sign them and remained segregated until 1959. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…
Whether she worked as painter, mixed media sculptor, fabric artist, author, educator, political activist or book illustrator, Faith Ringgold spent nearly 7 decades telling stories, moving minds, & changing hearts. Her work explored women’s issues & the Civil Rights Movement.
The annual convention held by @CLAscholar is ALWAYS a good time but this year was especially special because of its historic nature! The unofficial Homecoming theme meant I got a chance to connect with family as well as my usual conference besties.
Thank you Dr. President @Jervette and to the whole beautify team at @CLAscholar for putting on a *stellar* conference here in Memphis. I’m renewed and inspired. The insights I gained from my session have already shaped my project. Thank You! #CLA2024Memphis
.@CSADatGSU and @GSU_Africana are leading an initiative to make Georgia State the Southern hub for hip-hop studies with their new Hip-Hop Studies Consortium (HHSC). Read more: t.gsu.edu/3U2F3qx
#IntheClassroom with @GSU_Africana professor Lisa Shannon students develop civic responsibility through service in her experiential Civic Engagement course. Learn how they work to meet their community's needs in our newest Q&A: t.gsu.edu/3TXTyKL
THANK YOU for answering our call, #CLAscholars!!! So many of you showed up and showed out, and we have a whole ADDITIONAL group of people ready to serve and lead in CLA!! #CLA2024Memphis #CLA2024
THANK YOU for answering our call, #CLAscholars!!! So many of you showed up and showed out, and we have a whole ADDITIONAL group of people ready to serve and lead in CLA!! #CLA2024Memphis #CLA2024 https://t.co/G6iiuFSiKW
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A queen, a justice and a Rose to highlight Spelman’s graduation rites @ImAngelaBassett, Ketanji Brown Jackson and @waberosescott will all speak or be honored at @SpelmanCollege's upcoming graduation. ajc.com/black-atlanta-…
The newest episode of the @intersectsouth podcast featuring Hip Hop Consortium Fellow Akua Naru is now live! Listen here: t.gsu.edu/44kxQWs This podcast is hosted by Dr. Katie Acosta an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology!
Kudos to CAS faculty members Sarita Davis, Maria Elena Bermudez, and Ashley Holmes for graduating from the GSU Leadership for the Advancement of Women Faculty program! Here they are photographed with Associate Dean Elisabeth Burgess! #TheStateWay
A #CLAscholars Membership Drive!! I know our Membership Engagement Director @McKinleyEMelton would love to do one too!! #CLAFoundersDay
Let’s dream together, #CLAscholars! What initiatives should be next for CLA? Use #CLAFoundersDay to join the dialogue!
I didn’t realize I got a shout out over here, thank you!!
This morning's Grad Student Appreciation post goes out to A.D. Boynton! A.D. Boynton, II [he/they] is a Black queer cultural worker & #KUenglish doctoral candidate from Columbus, GA.
#IntheClassroom with @GSU_Africana professor Lisa Shannon students develop civic responsibility through service in her experiential Civic Engagement course. Learn how they work to meet their community's needs in our newest Q&A: t.gsu.edu/3TXTyKL
THANK YOU for answering our call, #CLAscholars!!! So many of you showed up and showed out, and we have a whole ADDITIONAL group of people ready to serve and lead in CLA!! #CLA2024Memphis #CLA2024
Still Here? Come to Lakeview at 5:30pm to learn how to Serve CLA bc your voice, leadership, & skillset matter! We are an organization full of talented #CLAscholars like you, & we want that talent to shine! Dinner will be served after at 7pm! #CLA2024Memphis #CLA24
@educator2us @MIT You do know people who wear glasses are great athletes, it’s genetic?! I read it on the internet so it’s true…
An honor to have Oscar-nominated actor @djimonhounsou visit CSAD. As founder of the Djimon Hounsou Foundation, he uses his voice to elevate Africa and the African diaspora. We are thrilled @dhf_org reached out to talk about our respective work and to explore what’s possible.
Happy Birthday to Tracy Chapman, who is celebrating her 60th birthday today! 🎉🥳🎂 #tracychapman
Some are a celebrity in name & behavior only. Others, creatives with an innate passion for their craft. All along his journey Mr. Louis Gossett Jr. a consummate professional & more importantly a good human & what a hugger. Journey on good sir as you soar among the ancestors. 📷
Getting inspiration from the ancestors: Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde & Gil Scott-Heron ... source.oglethorpe.edu/2024/03/27/awa…
At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children. You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN! Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!
I'm happy that Mrs. Wright's legacy will continue! Bailey Point Investment, LLC must stop contacting the family about the land, fix her roof, put up a privacy fence and provide landscaping. Congrats to this family. We have to stop these developers from taking out property & land!
"We come from all over to honor Mrs. Hamer. Who is Mrs. Hamer? We come to honor Mrs. Hamer because...she represents the best of us," - Activist Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Fannie Lou Hamer (Oct. 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977)
The Godmother of Rock & Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, was born #OTD in 1915. Tharpe’s performances developed a secular following due to her powerful guitar riffs & charismatic posturing on stage. Her sound ushered in the new genre of rock & roll. #WHM #APeoplesGroove
I have interviewed heads of state, cabinet members, politicians, celebrities and such, but today I’m reading to the littlest folks on the planet! May the force be with me…😁
197 years ago, on March 16, 1827, the Black Press was born through Freedom's Journal...Happy #BlackPressDay to all the amazing Black journalists & Black Newspapers who hold this nation accountable to its ideals...3 years to #BlackPressat200!
You don’t want to miss us in Memphis!! I hear the President’s Afterparty is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥 😉
THIS. IS. IT. #CLAscholars, YOU have 3 DAYS LEFT to Register for the #CLA2024Memphis Convention! MARCH 15th is the LAST chance to register & get the Convention Hotel Rate. Visit clascholars.org to register, book a hotel room, & find Delta flight deals for #CLA2024!