Black Boys Like Me now available. Momma, we did it…

In order to turn an ostensible lose-lose situation into a “love-love” situation we need to appropriate the language in a way that shocks Them. It’s not theory that’s going to save us, it’s action. Action is a language too. #BBLM

Happy 30th, Trayvon.

So many stories to share this month. Please look to the ways you can mesh your local history of black life, yes simply black life, into the narrative. Into the learning. Into their lives.

new food.

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“To fix a broken window is to fix another way of imagining the world” We are in an imagination battle, and the stories we write down and share and say are literally the maps to our future.

Familiarity with Black History or not, a great first activity that can be done at the beginning of February is to give the topic to students. What does it mean? How should it look? What should be covered? Inquiry is the model, why should Black History Month be any different? #BHM

portals of entry for the reader... from the goat, Kiese Laymon

Approaches to Black study must be multidisciplinary and seek to include all things within our Black aesthetic. The question remains: As it relates to Black study, how do we explode the canon of method-making to arrive at more accurate meanings of ourselves and of Black life?

Dear Black Educators, You can say No to things this month. Don't take on everything. Be careful with that Black Excellence talk. You aren't alone with the mixed feelings you have about this month. Safeness.

Educators, a few ideas for Black History Month.

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Grammys got one right. Doechii deserves this. Culture and art. 🐊 #Grammys2025

"We fight back with sentences, even though the sentences are often the thing that they use to sentence us."

"I just think our kids should be able to play on the page and not fucking get gunned down or hurt for it. And I just think Black masculinity without play is … There are some forms of Black masculine play that are not harmful, and I want to explore that" - Kiese Laymon

The task of Black art, Black scholarship, and Black becoming: to resist in a way that opens doors up for those coming through them after us. That is why what we wrote and write about is so important.

@daltonhiggins5 Is there an in person event for it?

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MY engagement with the Work, with particular academics and artists, with certain sentences and sentiments is because those things speaks to how closely the Black aesthetic can be tethered to authentic method making if we merely give ourselves permission to do so.