i augustus durham
@imeanswhatisays.bsky.social
Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius | https://www.dukeupress.edu/stay-black-and-die
Some lessons are better learned than taught.
-Maxine Foster-Durham
Some lessons are better learned than taught.
-Maxine Foster-Durham
Gratitude to Baldwin & Co. bookstore for sharing the second part of our collaboration where Corey J. Miles and I converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) while in New Orleans. As well, thanks to those who attended this event, both friends and enemies.
What?! 👀
youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
What?! 👀
youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
Growing Up in Melancholy: A Black Intellectual Story by I. Augustus Durham.
YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Gratitude to Baldwin & Co. bookstore for sharing the second part of our collaboration where Corey J. Miles and I converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) while in New Orleans. As well, thanks to those who attended this event, both friends and enemies.
What?! 👀
youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
What?! 👀
youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
Although this conversation with Corey Miles happened earlier this year, the timeliness of its posting last week felt like it could not arrive sooner, even with me forgetting that I referenced the recently departed.
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
Happiness Is Just a Break from Pain - Augustus Durham & Corey J. Miles at Baldwin & Co.
YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Although this conversation with Corey Miles happened earlier this year, the timeliness of its posting last week felt like it could not arrive sooner, even with me forgetting that I referenced the recently departed.
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
I am pleased to share a few upcoming events:
Sunday, November 2, 2025, I will moderate an author panel at Toronto International Festival of Authors with authors Souvankham Thammavongsa & Ian Williams.
Then on November 3, 2025, my American Literature survey, Kind of Blue, will host Sampada Aranke.
Sunday, November 2, 2025, I will moderate an author panel at Toronto International Festival of Authors with authors Souvankham Thammavongsa & Ian Williams.
Then on November 3, 2025, my American Literature survey, Kind of Blue, will host Sampada Aranke.
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I am pleased to share a few upcoming events:
Sunday, November 2, 2025, I will moderate an author panel at Toronto International Festival of Authors with authors Souvankham Thammavongsa & Ian Williams.
Then on November 3, 2025, my American Literature survey, Kind of Blue, will host Sampada Aranke.
Sunday, November 2, 2025, I will moderate an author panel at Toronto International Festival of Authors with authors Souvankham Thammavongsa & Ian Williams.
Then on November 3, 2025, my American Literature survey, Kind of Blue, will host Sampada Aranke.
Be bless . . . and buy Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius.
www.dukeupress.edu/stay-black-a...
www.dukeupress.edu/stay-black-a...
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Be bless . . . and buy Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius.
www.dukeupress.edu/stay-black-a...
www.dukeupress.edu/stay-black-a...
My fourth-year seminar, Minor Morrison, will host @kinohi.bsky.social this Monday for his lecture:
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My fourth-year seminar, Minor Morrison, will host @kinohi.bsky.social this Monday for his lecture:
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
Simply unbelievable.
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
The D’Angelo Cycle by I. Augustus Durham
The Digital Home for Duke University Professor and Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal
www.newblackmaninexile.net
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Simply unbelievable.
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
If you are in or around Toronto next Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 12-2p, you are invited to attend an important upcoming event at the Centre for the Study of the United States.
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you are in or around Toronto next Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 12-2p, you are invited to attend an important upcoming event at the Centre for the Study of the United States.
This Monday, October 6, 2025 at 3p, I am pleased to host Shaun Myers, Assistant Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh, for her lecture “Re-reading ‘Recitatif’ Through the Archive.” This lecture coincides with the seminar Minor Morrison in the Department of English, University of Toronto.
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This Monday, October 6, 2025 at 3p, I am pleased to host Shaun Myers, Assistant Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh, for her lecture “Re-reading ‘Recitatif’ Through the Archive.” This lecture coincides with the seminar Minor Morrison in the Department of English, University of Toronto.
#latepost
Gratitude for presenting on Marvin Gaye, from #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social), at the Library of Congress for Black Music Month. Being invited to a space that hosted Toni Morrison and others gave me wings!
Check👇🏾 for links to my lecture and Library blog interview + more photos:
Gratitude for presenting on Marvin Gaye, from #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social), at the Library of Congress for Black Music Month. Being invited to a space that hosted Toni Morrison and others gave me wings!
Check👇🏾 for links to my lecture and Library blog interview + more photos:
September 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#latepost
Gratitude for presenting on Marvin Gaye, from #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social), at the Library of Congress for Black Music Month. Being invited to a space that hosted Toni Morrison and others gave me wings!
Check👇🏾 for links to my lecture and Library blog interview + more photos:
Gratitude for presenting on Marvin Gaye, from #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social), at the Library of Congress for Black Music Month. Being invited to a space that hosted Toni Morrison and others gave me wings!
Check👇🏾 for links to my lecture and Library blog interview + more photos:
Tonight with DJ B-Sharp!
And there may still be spots to RSVP so check the link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a2b-vinyl-...
See you then!
And there may still be spots to RSVP so check the link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a2b-vinyl-...
See you then!
August 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Tonight with DJ B-Sharp!
And there may still be spots to RSVP so check the link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a2b-vinyl-...
See you then!
And there may still be spots to RSVP so check the link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/a2b-vinyl-...
See you then!
Tonight with @jenishawo.bsky.social! And still time to RSVP!
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
@dukepress.bsky.social
Wednesday night talk at Eaton by Professor I Augustus Durham on his book “Stay Black and die: On Melancholy and Genius “ that includes a fascinating chapter on Marvin Gaye.
August 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Tonight with @jenishawo.bsky.social! And still time to RSVP!
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
@dukepress.bsky.social
Reposted by i augustus durham
Wednesday night talk at Eaton by Professor I Augustus Durham on his book “Stay Black and die: On Melancholy and Genius “ that includes a fascinating chapter on Marvin Gaye.
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Wednesday night talk at Eaton by Professor I Augustus Durham on his book “Stay Black and die: On Melancholy and Genius “ that includes a fascinating chapter on Marvin Gaye.
Reposted by i augustus durham
Come through, y’all!
For Black August, I am elated to share a two-day collaboration—h/t Aryn Bussey and Nina Ligon—with The Eaton DC:
Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
August 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Come through, y’all!
For Black August, I am elated to share a two-day collaboration—h/t Aryn Bussey and Nina Ligon—with The Eaton DC:
Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
For Black August, I am elated to share a two-day collaboration—h/t Aryn Bussey and Nina Ligon—with The Eaton DC:
Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
Wednesday, August 20 @ 7p, I and @jenishawo.bsky.social, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
www.eventbrite.com/e/stay-black...
In June, I was grateful to collaborate with the Center for Spiritual Imagination to inaugurate its Audio Divina series with “How Much a Dollar Cost” from To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar.
www.spiritualimagination.org
www.spiritualimagination.org
Welcome | The Center for Spiritual Imagination
Contemplative Practice For Just Living | We are a new monastic community which teaches engaged contemplative spirituality and service in action. We are open to all.
www.spiritualimagination.org
August 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
In June, I was grateful to collaborate with the Center for Spiritual Imagination to inaugurate its Audio Divina series with “How Much a Dollar Cost” from To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar.
www.spiritualimagination.org
www.spiritualimagination.org
@dem8z.bsky.social speaking to what Roberta Flack called “tryin’ times” as she quotes Frederick Douglass and invokes 1987, an important year for me.
Professor @dem8z.bsky.social speaking on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday in protest of the authoritarian takeover of higher education.
June 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@dem8z.bsky.social speaking to what Roberta Flack called “tryin’ times” as she quotes Frederick Douglass and invokes 1987, an important year for me.
Today at Library of Congress.
Thanks to @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social for this profile in @wcp.bsky.social, especially as an event among a host of others in DC during/for WorldPride and Black Music Month.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7653...
Also, I have two tickets available for anyone who would
Thanks to @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social for this profile in @wcp.bsky.social, especially as an event among a host of others in DC during/for WorldPride and Black Music Month.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7653...
Also, I have two tickets available for anyone who would
June 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today at Library of Congress.
Thanks to @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social for this profile in @wcp.bsky.social, especially as an event among a host of others in DC during/for WorldPride and Black Music Month.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7653...
Also, I have two tickets available for anyone who would
Thanks to @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social for this profile in @wcp.bsky.social, especially as an event among a host of others in DC during/for WorldPride and Black Music Month.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7653...
Also, I have two tickets available for anyone who would
Next week . . .
Although it is a ways out, I have collaborated with the Library of Congress for a Black Music Month event related to Marvin Gaye and #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
Tickets are available today so if you are in/around DC June 5, 2025, it’d be great to see you!
www.loc.gov/item/event-4...
Tickets are available today so if you are in/around DC June 5, 2025, it’d be great to see you!
www.loc.gov/item/event-4...
Live! At the Library—Marvin Gaye: Melancholy and Genius in Black Culture and Media
Commemorate Black Music Month with an engaging talk that explores connections between Marvin Gaye's music and the influence of George Gershwin. Featuring Dr. I. Augustus Durham (Assistant Professor of...
www.loc.gov
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Next week . . .
Tonight!
Check below for more information—hope to see you then 👍🏾
Check below for more information—hope to see you then 👍🏾
May 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tonight!
Check below for more information—hope to see you then 👍🏾
Check below for more information—hope to see you then 👍🏾
May 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🎶 Join us on May 28 @ 7p for “Meditation is a Must”
Our inaugural session explores Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” through Audio/Musica Divina. I. Augustus Durham (@dukepress.bsky.social) will offer insights to deepen our reflection.
Register👇🏾:
spiritualimagination.org/events/meditat…
Our inaugural session explores Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” through Audio/Musica Divina. I. Augustus Durham (@dukepress.bsky.social) will offer insights to deepen our reflection.
Register👇🏾:
spiritualimagination.org/events/meditat…
May 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🎶 Join us on May 28 @ 7p for “Meditation is a Must”
Our inaugural session explores Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” through Audio/Musica Divina. I. Augustus Durham (@dukepress.bsky.social) will offer insights to deepen our reflection.
Register👇🏾:
spiritualimagination.org/events/meditat…
Our inaugural session explores Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” through Audio/Musica Divina. I. Augustus Durham (@dukepress.bsky.social) will offer insights to deepen our reflection.
Register👇🏾:
spiritualimagination.org/events/meditat…
One month away!
Although tickets are sold out, if you are in/around DC on June 5 and think you can attend, let me know since I got it like that. 🙃
@dukepress.bsky.social
Although tickets are sold out, if you are in/around DC on June 5 and think you can attend, let me know since I got it like that. 🙃
@dukepress.bsky.social
Although it is a ways out, I have collaborated with the Library of Congress for a Black Music Month event related to Marvin Gaye and #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social).
Tickets are available today so if you are in/around DC June 5, 2025, it’d be great to see you!
www.loc.gov/item/event-4...
Tickets are available today so if you are in/around DC June 5, 2025, it’d be great to see you!
www.loc.gov/item/event-4...
Live! At the Library—Marvin Gaye: Melancholy and Genius in Black Culture and Media
Commemorate Black Music Month with an engaging talk that explores connections between Marvin Gaye's music and the influence of George Gershwin. Featuring Dr. I. Augustus Durham (Assistant Professor of...
www.loc.gov
May 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
One month away!
Although tickets are sold out, if you are in/around DC on June 5 and think you can attend, let me know since I got it like that. 🙃
@dukepress.bsky.social
Although tickets are sold out, if you are in/around DC on June 5 and think you can attend, let me know since I got it like that. 🙃
@dukepress.bsky.social
Excited for tomorrow!
Check the link in the OP for program details and registration—see you then!
Check the link in the OP for program details and registration—see you then!
Next week!
Register at the QR code or here if there’s still availability:
tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi...
In an effort to keep things fresh as spring is here, or approaches 🤔, I will be presenting some new work.
Register at the QR code or here if there’s still availability:
tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi...
In an effort to keep things fresh as spring is here, or approaches 🤔, I will be presenting some new work.
April 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Excited for tomorrow!
Check the link in the OP for program details and registration—see you then!
Check the link in the OP for program details and registration—see you then!