Remembering #TTFortune (10/3/1856 - 6/2/1928)

"His leadership was brilliant, fearless, aggressive and incorruptible. He never fawned or flattered, never bent his knee for expediency, never sold himself or his people . . . he was always a sincere friend or a sincere enemy." Remembering #TTFortune (10/3/1856-6/2/1928)

The Afro-American agitator steadfastly stood for civil rights. In 1884 he screamed out "Let us agitate! agitate! AGITATE! until the protest shall wake the nation from its indifference"

@KUafs @AfricanaCarr @CharlesWMcKinn2 @FJasmineG @doctordynamite @nrookie @ASALH @AsalhConvention “Black Studies has always had the work of those visionaries, not just as the scholars and the theorists but the artists have always been central to a conception of Black Studies, what can we imagine that will guide us as we try to build this new thing." @FJasmineG “It is nice to talk Black Studies w/ folks who I know are committed to the project of Black Studies, as opposed to just the study of Black people... to talk to folks that locate that [study] within some configuration of Black Studies” - @nrookie

The Argument of “Afropessimism” by Vinson Cunningham via @NewYorker newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… Part I: ‘Afropessimism’ and the rituals of anti-black violence by Zamansele Nsele via @mailandguardian mg.co.za/article/2020-0…

Good news, but since the @nytimes, along with other news outlets have framed the discussion around #WEBDuBois' 1920s letters, it might be good to give a bit more history, though it is still only a partial history, of the struggle over capitalization. 1/

https://twitter.com/s_l_alexander/status/1280091435572871168

#WEBDuBois didn't start the campaign for capitalization, it was decades old in the 1920s. Moreover, he wrote the NYT multiple times in the 1920s, including three in Nov 1925.

On Nov 9th, he refers to the practice of using lower-case as needless pin-pricks on the Black reader 2/