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For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

a map of openai's influence on other media companies

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.

imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!

nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

AI-created art isn't eligible for copyright protection, after the Supreme Court chose not to review a lower court ruling.

In 2022 the Copyright Office said images without “human authorship,” don't qualify for copyright protection — this was affirmed in 2023 by a district court.

One of the unexpected challenges of teaching Latin (I mean, it came up last semester, so I guess now an expected challenge) is helping students whose struggle is that they're not well prepared for complex *English* grammar, like relative clauses or participial phrases, because they don't use them.

lol! Nope. I did write on this last year. hyperallergic.com/why-do-we-ex...

I wanted to note that I made a list of all ancient comets from Med antiquity (500 BCE-400 CE) for class a number of years ago. Here is my excel sheet, based on Ramsay, Descriptive Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. Syllecta Classica, 17. 2006.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Marcus Aurelius showing up in the Epstein files was very much on my Bingo card for 2026.

Mundus sine czaribus.

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

This was a chilling, scary read. "...the institute said it “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America...The agency also points to an executive order...and one titled Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again." First the NEH and now the IMLS.

I gotta an A on my stats assignment.

All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

An amazing essay by art historian Dr. Denva Gallant. 😇 hyperallergic.com/all-about-lo... for @hyperallergic.com

Hello, I wrote this with @ewg118.bsky.social back in 2017. www.forbes.com/sites/drsara... I stand by it. 🗑️

Openverse Search over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

You made it to end of week. Proud of you. Keep going!

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (@jprstudies.bsky.social) did a special issue on Black Romance novels in 2022. It includes scholarly articles and interviews with Black Romance authors.

www.jprstudies.org/issues/volum...

#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky

The Sweet and Sour History and Story of Watermelon It's watermelon season and watermelons have been around for 5,000 years. Let's take a look at the history connected to Black communities and Black farmers.

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Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…

Put You On Game: Misogynoir in Digital Spaces — Hoodrat Scholarship "Misogynoir in Digital Spaces" delves into the critical examination of the unique challenges faced by Black women in the digital realm due to the intersection of misogyny and anti-Black racism, known ...

CHILE ANYWAYS— i have 16 slots left for my course.

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The Trump administration’s objection to a program that helps people of color pursue doctorate degrees has prompted colleges to cut ties with a range of organizations associated with racial minority groups, a Post investigation has found.
Since last year, more than 100 schools have ended partnerships with the PhD Project, a group founded in 1994 to diversify the pipeline of students who aspire to become business school professors. That came after the U.S. Department of Education last March announced probes into 45 universities that partnered with the group.
More than a dozen of those schools have quietly reached agreements with the administration to resolve the investigations. As part of the pacts, the universities promised to identify partnerships with any organization that may “restrict participation based on race” and either sever those relationships or explain why they won’t, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Profiles in courage————Colleges quietly cut ties with organizations that help people of color  www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This Houston Library Is Dedicated Entirely to Black Art More than 800 books offer a vibrant display of Black art and diasporic culture.

What a cool story #blacksky #blackbooksky www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-cul...

Snappa - Create online graphics in a snap Snappa makes it easy to create any type of online graphic. Create & publish images for social media, blogs, ads, and more!

Canva is great, but the best design resources on Canva are behind a paywall. Snappa is totally free, has the same ease of use as Canva but with the distinction of being able to use over five million graphic design resources without paying.

snappa.com

CatalogerGPT is an innovative and specialized tool designed to maximize the use of AI as a cataloger's assistant, aiding in original MARC record creation. The software accepts text, page images, and PDF files as input and operates on that data to create output. 🧐
glengreenly.wixsite.com/catalogergpt

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law

www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...

My painting GIRL WITH A MUG II

Books read, by Black authors (A – D) Over the years I’ve read a lot of books, by a variation of authors. Today I’m providing a list of the books I’ve read by Black authors. This is part 1 (Authors A – D) of the…

I started working on a list of books I've read by Black authors, starting from 2021.

The first part (Authors starting with A - D) can be found through the following link, and contains a list of 1,012 books divided over 107 authors

shereadsalot.blog/2026/02/08/b...

#Blackbooksky

Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black Librarians in America “Are You a Librarian? The Untold Story of Librarians” connects the history of public libraries, civil rights and literacy to the current political attacks on the public library system.

Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black #Librarians in America (via @wttw.bsky.social) news.wttw.com/2025/07/23/d... #libraries #publiclibraries

To spotlight the lesser-known contributions of Black librarians, librarian Rodney Freeman produced the documentary “Are You a Librarian? The Untold Story of Librarians.”

Freeman talks about the connection between libraries and the Civil Rights Movement.

to.wttw.com/455oLBC

 The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams [Rodney Freeman Jr.]

"Rodney Freeman Jr. is a librarian and executive producer of the forthcoming documentary “Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians.”"