research post 2026-03-06
Guarding the way or making way? Choose.
Stomped my way to the end of the week and barely made it. No Office hours this week and no offering. But I couldn’t miss a chance to gather my tabs….
Listen
Rhiannon Giddens, Birmingham Sunday
Reads
Ophelia Settle Egypt, “Memories of Sterling Brown Walking The Campus Like a Natural Man,” Sterling A. Brown: A UMUM Tribute (Philadelphia, 1976), 1982, 19–20.
Lauren Klein, “Editor’s Note,” AiAi Monthly Digest, February 2026, http://eepurl.com/jzMxF-/.
“A Conversation with Marisa Solomon on <I>The Elsewhere Is Black</I>,” Barnard Center for Research on Women, February 5, 2026, https://bcrw.barnard.edu/a-conversation-with-marisa-solomon-on-the-elsewhere-is-black/.
US Census Bureau, “Research to Improve Data on Race and Ethnicity,” Census.Gov, accessed March 6, 2026, https://www.census.gov/about/our-research/race-ethnicity.html.
“The Guard: An Intervention at the Barbados Museum,” LLANOR ALLEYNE, accessed March 6, 2026, https://www.llanoralleyne.com/news/the-guard-an-intervention-at-the-barbados-museum.
Dr Katherine Jarvie-Dolinar, Radical Recordkeeping, February 18, 2025, https://rmit.pressbooks.pub/archivingvoicesofchange/chapter/radical-recordkeeping/.
Toni Cade Bambara, Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009).
Anna Kodé, “The Home of Carter G. Woodson, the Man Behind Black History Month,” Real Estate, The New York Times, February 1, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/realestate/black-history-month-woodson.html.
“HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day,” accessed March 6, 2026, https://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/RelatedCartoon.asp?Month=May&Date=1.
Bentley’s Miscellany (Richard Bentley, 1853).
Tirrea Billings, “The Archive Belongs to Us: Jiya Pinder on Memory and Preservation,” Substack newsletter, Philanthropy Unfiltered, February 26, 2026,
“Meeting the Need: Building the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations,” Building Movement, n.d., accessed March 6, 2026, https://buildingmovement.org/reports/meeting-the-need-building-the-capacity-of-community-based-organizations/.
“Meeting the Need: Building the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations,” Building Movement, n.d., accessed March 6, 2026, https://buildingmovement.org/reports/meeting-the-need-building-the-capacity-of-community-based-organizations/.
Documents
The Quock Walker case: “Instructions to the Jury”
Charge of Chief Justice Cushing:
“As to the doctrine of slavery and the right of Christians to hold Africans in perpetual servitude, and sell and treat them as we do our horses and cattle, that (it is true) has been heretofore countenanced by the Province Laws formerly, but nowhere is it expressly enacted or established. It has been a usage--a usage which took its origin from the practice of some of the European nations, and the regulations of British government respecting the then Colonies, for the benefit of trade and wealth. But whatever sentiments have formerly prevailed in this particular or slid in upon us by the example of others, a different idea has taken place with the people of America, more favorable to the natural rights of mankind, and to that natural, innate desire of Liberty, with which Heaven (without regard to color, complexion, or shape of noses--features) has inspired all the human race. And upon this ground our Constitution of Government, by which the people of this Commonwealth have solemnly bound themselves, sets out with declaring that all men are born free and equal--and that every subject is entitled to liberty, and to have it guarded by the laws, as well as life and property--and in short is totally repugnant to the idea of being born slaves. This being the case, I think the idea of slavery is inconsistent with our own conduct and Constitution; and there can be no such thing as perpetual servitude of a rational creature, unless his liberty is forfeited by some criminal conduct or given up by personal consent or contract . . . .”
Credit: Civil Rights and the Black American A Documentary History, edited by Albert P Blaustein and Robert L. Zangrando, published by Washington Square Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1968
Affirmations and Beatitudes
DESDE EL MUSEO AFRO CASA SILVANA: Los invitamos a conmemorar Marzo como el Mes de la Afrodescendencia en Puerto Rico para reconocer y celebrar la aportación de esta y pasadas generaciones de la comunidad afro descendiente en Puerto Rico.
On Saturday, February 7th, we opened our newest exhibition, ‘She Speaks: Black Women Artists and the Power of Historical Memory’, with an opening reception and Black History Month celebration that brought the community together, shared knowledge, and fostered creative connection through art, poetry, and food.
Join us! The next talk in our DH Workshop series will be The Human in Computing and Cognition, featuring Christopher Dancy.
From Palestine to Mexico, all the border walls have got to go! Baltimore #ArtistsAgainstApartheid
