As I work on the design of this site I am realizing that it’s difficult to separate the 81 Press titles from all of the other titles by other publishers that I want to also highlight here. I’ll have to work that out…stay tuned…
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- Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women July 30, 2010The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. We are interested in work on any time period that explores black women as intellectuals across a broad geography inclu […]
- How Howard Got His History Back July 30, 2010A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works. Read the story here: http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/howard-simmons-photographer-dave-mata-found-photos/Content?oid=1770313&storyPage=1#mce_temp_url# […]
- Only 40 (or so) hours to go…UPDATED July 30, 2010Thanks again to all of my backers! By Delphine Fawundu-Buford In order for this project to be successful, we have to raise $3,830. in 40 hrs. I noticed that we have very few backers on the 5 and 10 dollar levels – of course the higher levels are driving the donations but I think that a mixture [...] […]