Izetta Autumn Mobley

"Intellectual partners read together and write together. They also...can swim in each other’s imaginations. Neither one imitating the other but after bathing in the other’s words they return back to the shore, to the work, shaped by the beloved’s waters." buzzfeednews.com/article/imanip…

Excited to re-share this Harvard Gazette excerpt of my @nytimes best-selling book LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine about my late mother’s leukemia diagnosis at the age of 46. “Was racism a factor in mother’s leukemia?” Read here: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

The Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida c. 1966. From the archival collection of The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida.

#ABWH2024 Call for Papers now open! Visit abwhconference.org for details and to submit your proposal. @abwhtruth #ABWH45 #ABWHFuture

I’m grateful for the life, courage, and love legacy of #BerniceJohnsonReagon, here singing ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken.’ Rest in power, fellow Bernice.

Today is July 20, 2024, the start of the first chapter of Octavia Butler’s #ParableOfTheSower Happy Parable Day.

Today, we remember Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, scholar, curator, singer, composer, organizer, activist, and member of our museum’s Scholarly Advisory Committee. Dr. Reagon was a cultural force who spent her life’s work fighting for freedom and justice.

Today is the day!

Sweet Honey in the Rock was the soundtrack to Black feminism’s growth, the sonic equivalent of bell hooks, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison—songs coming out like their books and essays. Teachers. Sisters. Mothers. Sages. #BerniceJohnsonReagon Rest in Power. npr.org/2024/07/17/121…

Law & Order on, check. Tea in a giant mug. Check. Library of Congress fleece on. Check. It must mean it's time for me to write.

How are the state, groups, and individuals recognizing Blackness in Mexico? I spoke to Anthony Russell Jerry about his book Blackness in Mexico (@floridapress) for @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksAfroAm Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/blackness-in-m…

@malgorzatar Now we just need to get you eclectic denim...

Missing all of the incredible scholars, practitioners, and brilliant wonderful people gathered at #AAAM2023 in Nashville, TN.

“The Department of African & African American Studies at Stanford University is searching for scholars who research and teach in the field of Black Studies in the Arts. This is an open-rank search;” #Blktwitterstorians #BlackStudies @ADBoyntonII facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/4945…

And perhaps consider that you're not the only one curious or asking. And it's a lot.

I'd like to offer a gentle, compassionate, and candid piece of guidance: if you suspect someone shares a familial relationship with a person or historical event steeped in very public racial trauma, & they've never discussed it with you, that's not for you to ask or explore.

Biden is planning to create a national monument and memorial to Emmett Till. And for many, this is the first time learning Mamie Till's full name after she re-married: Mamie Till-Mobley.