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Black Think Tank: Supporting, Promoting, and Elevating Everything Black From Faculty @DukeU | Follow us: @black-think-tank.bsky.social

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Welcome to BTT! We are a faculty-led Duke initiative that aims to foster an inclusive academic community to support and connect Black faculty! Check us out blackthinktank.duke.edu #BTT #DukeU 🤓👋📘
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Duke Chapel@DukeChapelMar 27
Matthew Rushing, Alvin Ailey associate artistic director and “artist-in-context” at @DukeDivinity, will dance in these upcoming services: 🔹 Good Friday Tenebrae — April 3 at 7:30 p.m. 🔹 Easter Day with Holy Communion — April 5 at 9:00 a.m. 🔹 Easter Day — April 5 at 11:00 a.m.
A modern dancer, Matthew Rushing, is captured in a powerful, athletic pose against a minimalist off-white background. He is dressed entirely in white, wearing a fitted short-sleeved top and loose trousers. He balances on one leg with his torso leaned forward and his other leg extended high behind him in a graceful line.

ALT A modern dancer, Matthew Rushing, is captured in a powerful, athletic pose against a minimalist off-white background. He is dressed entirely in white, wearing a fitted short-sleeved top and loose trousers. He balances on one leg with his torso leaned forward and his other leg extended high behind him in a graceful line.

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@NewBlackManMar 28
What can Booker T. Washington and the legacy of the Tuskegee Institute teach us about Black liberation, modernity, and Black worldmaking? @ProfMcInnis discusses his book 'Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South' on @LeftOfBlack youtube.com/watch?v=poBtdGba…
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✨We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Pauli Murray Book Prize is Dr. Jarvis C. McInnis, author of Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South! 👏🏾👏🏾 @ColumbiaUP @DukeU @Duke_English @ProfMcInnis aaihs.org/2026-aaihs-award-w…
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Jarvis C. McInnis@ProfMcInnisMar 30
One of the most special opportunities I’ve had on my book tour for AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION was serving as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speaker for a group of 5th to 12th-grade girls/young women & their parents @ The Brearley School @BrearleyNYC an all-girls school in NYC!
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Duke GI@Duke_GI_Mar 31
🌟Last push for #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth: Great insights on prevention, early detection & barriers to care, this #BeyondTheEndpoint conversation featuring Dr. Ajay Kohli & our own @Julius__Wilder is too important to pass by!#colonoscopy @DCRINews duke.is/4/sjbd

S.2 Ep. 7 | From Provider to Patient: A Dual Perspective on Colorectal Cancer

Colon cancer is increasingly impacting younger adults. Hosts Manesh Patel and Emily O'Brien speak with a seemingly healthy, marathon-running patient diagnosed at 42, and a Duke gastroenterologist...

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Gbadegesin Lab@GbadegesinLabMar 31
Excited to share the link for our new paper in KI. Big step towards predicting response to rx @ initial presentation of Peds nephrotic syndrome @ASPNeph @ISGDtweets @nephcure Huge global collab efforts nam11.safelinks.protection.o…
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Jarvis C. McInnis@ProfMcInnisMar 31
I’m honored to share that my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, is the WINNER of the 2026 Pauli Murray Book Prize by the African American Intellectual History Society! Thank you @AAIHS for this great honor & to my parents, who joined me for the awards ceremony in Pittsburgh 🙏🏾🏆
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@NewBlackManApr 2
.@DukeU Professor Receives Top State Honor Beverly McIver, an emerita professor of art, art history and visual studies, was inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine today.duke.edu/2026/03/duke-…

Duke Professor Receives Top State Honor | Duke Today

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Jarvis C. McInnis@ProfMcInnisFeb 18
I’m deeply honored & proud to share that my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, has been selected as WINNER of the 2026 BEST BOOK AWARD by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the founders of Black History Month! Thank you @ASALH for this honor!
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Mbaye Lo@MbayeBashirLoFeb 18
I am looking forward to a fruitful discussion at NYU tomorrow.
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Working@Duke@WorkingatDukeFeb 23
Duke Housekeeper Bennie Frances Davis built a life of devotion and elegance that became the foundation of her grandson André Leon Talley’s rise in the fashion world. Read about her values: bit.ly/3MDdSBz #BlackHistoryMonth
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Jarvis C. McInnis@ProfMcInnisFeb 23
I'm looking forward to the next stop on my book tour, this Thursday, Feb. 26 in the Black Studies Department @Yale! Drawing on my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, I’ll discuss Tuskegee as an early model & locus of Black Studies & study. More info here: tinyurl.com/5fypjpdv.
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@NewBlackManFeb 24
#BlackHistoryMonth – at Durham, NC
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Sanford School of Public Policy@DukeSanfordFeb 24
Dr. @uche_blackstock reminds us that health equity is rooted in community, mentorship and the shared humanity of patients and clinicians. Sanford Distinguished Lecture recap: duke.is/blackstock-sanford-l…
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Julius Wilder MD PhD@Julius__WilderFeb 13
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@AGA_Gastro @AmCollegeGastro @BlackThinkTank_ @DukeMedSchool @dukemedicine @blackingastro
Duke GI@Duke_GI_Feb 13
📆Next week, Duke GI Grand Rounds will have the great honor of hosting @BCryer as the 6th annual Joanne AP Wilson Lecture presenter! @David_LeimanMD @bswhealth #BlackHistoryMonth #GrandRounds #GITwitter
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Duke GI@Duke_GI_Feb 13
📆Next week, Duke GI Grand Rounds will have the great honor of hosting @BCryer as the 6th annual Joanne AP Wilson Lecture presenter! @David_LeimanMD @bswhealth #BlackHistoryMonth #GrandRounds #GITwitter
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Duke Health@DukeHealthFeb 12
With recent measles cases reported in our area, #DukeHealth experts share this guidance for protection: • Know your vaccination status • Stay informed about public health guidance • Call ahead if you develop symptoms after a possible exposure #Measles | #PublicHealth

Measles Awareness 2026

Reviewing key points about measles awareness during an outbreak.

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@NewBlackManFeb 10
"If Duke University’s basketball success over that past 40 years might be thought of as the by-product of interracial collaboration—the GOAT White coach and rosters of Black and White players who identify as the Brotherhood—the reality was more complicated." medium.com/p/e5dd14b8f10e

The Brotherhood? Duke Basketball and the Legacy of Black Durham by Mark Anthony Neal

Few of Duke University Basketball’s most fervent fans, or haters, I imagine are as knowledgeable of Dr. John Hope Franklin, as they are…

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Latin American Review of Books@LatAmRoBFeb 8
US basketball coaches are exploiting Black Latin American youths. Review: Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams @DukePress #basketball #Black #sport #racism #exploitation HERE tinyurl.com/mwuvz2e2
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John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.@fhi_dukeFeb 9
NEW ON YOUTUBE: duke.is/b/m7he In his new book, "Afterlives of the Plantation," publ. by @ColumbiaUP, author @ProfMcInnis rethinks Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute as a site of new ideas about Black life, labor, and freedom. He is Assoc. Prof. at @Duke_English
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