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Three practices. One shared vision of a Black future.

Meet J.T. Roane and Jona Alexander, collaborators on @CurryHackett’s exhibition, “It Can Happen...Still Time to Try”. Together, they brought film, sound and collage into a conversation about Black life, land and collective possibility.

J.T. Roane (@j.t.roane) is from Tappahannock, Virginia and lives in Philadelphia. He is an Africana Studies scholar and Geographer at Rutgers University, where he co-leads the Black Ecologies Lab. His award-winning book Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (2023) maps relationships between Black rural and urban placemaking tactics in the American South and Philadelphia.

Jona Alexander (@nolabeljona) is a Philadelphia-based Black geographer, documentarian, and educator working across film, poetry, and soundscape. As lead documentarian for the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers University, and the Black Geographers on Film project, Jona’s films incorporate environmental science, oral history, and urban studies to reveal the ecological consequences of slavery’s afterlives, and how they shape Afro-diasporic communities.

Join us tomorrow Tuesday, October 20, for the exhibition’s closing reception, featuring a roundtable with Curry, J.T. and Jona, moderated by @linyee_is_outside, alongside a special performance by @redprojectnyc and sounds by @muenfua.

It Can Happen... Still Time to Try is on view at Ace Hotel Brooklyn through October 31 as part of our 2026 Artist-in-Residence program in collaboration with @fieldmeridians.

Images by @malakhaipearson by @j.t.roane

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Today’s From Hate to Hallows Roundtable was an incredible moment of theological, geographic, Black studies and anthropological genius. Thanks to my colleagues who participated in this event and to those who attended. My heart is full. Don’t forget to preorder From Hate to Hallows: Reframing Black Church Arson. Use code at E26HLLWS at checkout at Duke University Press to get 30% off! by @j.t.roane

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Todne Thomas has an amazing forthcoming book From Hate To Hallows on Duke University Press. We had the honor of engaging the work and it was a good time! Pablo José López Oro thanks for the panel shot! by @j.t.roane

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Inaugural Roundtable for From Hate to Hallows: Reframing Black Church Arson THIS Friday, 10/16/26, 12-2 pm, HQ 134. Food provided. And brilliant scholars Amaryah Armstrong, LaToya Eaves, J.t. Roane, and Savannah Shange will be putting it down. Don’t miss out! by @j.t.roane

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Black Women’s Gardens as Art and Practice

Edited by Carlyn Ferrari and Thaïsa Way Harvard Press forthcoming March 2027 by @j.t.roane

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Cajetan Iheka and Jonathan Howard have put together what promises to be a beautiful and thoughtful conversation that emerged from one they hosted at Yale a few years back. Coming out in April 2027. And my contribution has me connecting our work with @just_harvest_va with #JuneJordan and her thinking. by @j.t.roane

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Students, filmmakers, and scholars from Rutgers University’s Black Ecologies Lab visited Mound Bayou Museum for a day of experiential learning rooted in the story of this community.

Introduced by Dr. Teona Williams and guided by public historian Rhondalyn Peairs of HISTORICH, the group explored the connections between Black history, land, community, and self-determination.

We were glad to welcome them into the museum and share the stories Mound Bayou holds!

#SavingPlaces #MuseumEducation by @j.t.roane

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Happy birthday to my godson Ja! Love you to the moon and back. by @j.t.roane

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Here is the fuller program for what promises to be a phenomenal series, Thirsty Thursdays organized by Drs. Teona Williams and Danielle Purifoy (@dmpurifoy) with occasional hosting by Dr. Justin Hosbey (@just.like.dat) and me. The brilliant Dr. Ashanté Reese ( @dramreese ) will open us up with a discussion of her latest book Gather. Join us. Also here is a simplified link: go.rutgers.edu/ThirstyThursdays . Sign up and join us on Zoom! by @j.t.roane

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@naomisoextra we are so grateful for you! Dr. Teona Williams is spearheading a serious #blackecologies Lab program this year. I’m grateful. by @j.t.roane

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Excited to be co-hosting with beloved Teona Williams this new virtual series on Black Ecologies! Please gather with us as we get to talk with scholars, artists, and practitioners about how their life and work connects Black life and the environment through everything from music to religious practice to agriculture to photography. And we’ll occasionally get to co-host with our Black Ecologies Lab fam, @j.t.roane and @just.like.dat! Link in bio. Hope to see you soon! by @j.t.roane

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