Justin Smith, Ph.D.

ALA 2026 CFP: Come Present with AALCS in Chicago! Please share and submit an abstract! aalcsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/com…

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Deadline in 5 days! We would love to have you present with us!

The way he cannot bring himself to use the word "racist" to describe how he, Usha, and other non-white Republicans have been treated by Republicans. He tries to frame it as being "unamerican," but it's as American as apple pie. Take it from this slave descendant whose family fought in the civil war.

And, if you are interested, I am working on putting together an AALCS panel on Black Artistic and Literary Responses to Misinformation that you can view here. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/13…

ALA 2026 CFP: Come Present with AALCS in Chicago! Please share and submit an abstract! aalcsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/com…

Kendrick Perkins just said this is the most important game in OKC franchise history, like they didn’t make it to the finals before, or like Russ and KD didn’t play the Warriors in the western finals. And nobody checked him.

So happy to announce that my forthcoming article with Global Black Thought, "Exposing the Racial Illogics of Jim Crow Segregation: Mary Church Terrell's Situational Resistance," won AAIHS's 2025 Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize! Congratulations to the other winners as well!

#DouglassDay speaking to something I've been thinking about a lot lately: we must work to make and to preserve the history that we care about. Again, something that's increasingly important in our present moment.

Douglass's words indeed continue to be all too relevant to our current moment.

Watching #DouglassDay from home for the first time. Though I'm missing out on being in in-person community, I'm excited to be able to watch, listen, learn, and, finally get to really dig into these transcriptions!

♥️Yeah, yeah I know it's Valentine's Day (👋🏽@valencho06) but if you want to truly transcend, today is #DouglassDay. Observance is forever. douglassday.org

Poppin' in to share the @psulibs @DouglassDayorg team is ready to host events at 7 campus libraries. This year, we made Valentine cards. Stop in to transcribe & send some love. douglassday.org/penn-state/ [p.s. you can find the @DigBlk crew over in the blue skies]

Are you interested in hosting your own Douglass Day event? 🥰 Our team has put together an organizing kit to guide you through the process. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out or scan our QR code for more details. #douglassday #douglassdayorganizingkit

We've extended the deadline for AALCS Abstracts for the 2025 ALA Conference in Boston to January 12! Please share the attached CFP widely! aalcsblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/ala…

Giancarlo Esposito and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to be honored with the Excellence in the Arts awards at the American Black Film Festival. Given to highly acclaimed artists for their body of work and distinguished career achievements.

I was 15 in 2010 and my nana who knew I wrote poems made me go see Nikki Giovanni speak at Wayne State University. I didn’t know who she was and in my really stupid youth, I didn’t want to go because I didn’t think I would be interested in what such an old person had to say.