Items tagged “News” on display below:
BLOGROLL: Bailey on the #1619Project
DIGITAL/NEWS: Ethnic Studies Rise! #LorgiaFest
NEWS: Year of Return
Mar 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Support One Book One New Orleans & Walking Raddy Book Launch!
The Junto Blog Announces New Bloggers
NEWS/ART: Kara Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan
AWARD: 2018 AAIHS Award Recipients Announced
CFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
EVENT: March 29th – Arondekar, Johnson, and Seijas on Decolonizing History
VIDEO: Charity Folks (Making History Trailer)
NEWS: How a Small Seminar Course Engaged Readers Everywhere – The Chronicle of Higher Education #blackwomanhood
NEWS/VIDEO: Williams and Berry Launch Making History
NEWS: SUNY Launches “Afro-Latinx Futures” Book Series
DIGITAL: Anna Julia Cooper Collection | Howard University
NEWS: Dunbar’s Never Caught’ to be Adapted for Film
NEWS: Wheat Wins Tubman Book Prize
NEWS: AAIHS Wins Rosenzweig Prize
NEWS: Mustakeem Wins Wesley-Logan Book Prize
NEWS: Wheat Wins Rawley Book Prize
NEWS: Ward Receives MacArthur Genius Award
NEWS: Haley Wins Kelly Memorial Book Prize
NEWS: A Statement on Hurricane Irma | Small Axe Project
NEWS: AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments (August 2017) | AHA
NEWS: Charlottesville and the Mississippi Flag (An Open Letter from Historians)
NEWS: International Slavery Museum marks ten years with stories of Ink and Blood
NEWS: “We Replaced You”
NEWS: Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the United States. Here’s a List. – The New York Times
ART: Walker, U.S.A. Idioms, 2017
NEWS: Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation
BLOGROLL: The Charlottesville Syllabus
NEWS: Under pressure to reconcile racist past, Wesleyan College joins slavery study group | AJC
NEWS: The UWI establishes Center for Reparations Research – Repeating Islands
NEWS: A Statement On Race and Medieval Studies
- NEWS/BLOGROLL: Williams: By any name, half-acre of slave trade history not enough | Richmond.com
NEWS: Richmond leaders debate whether slavery memorial should be named after man who ran notorious jail
NEWS: New Orleans removes last of four statues linked to pro-slavery era | @Reuters
NEWS: Harvard Puts Its Ties To Slavery On Display | WBUR
NEWS: Slave Quarters Rebuilt at Madison’s Montpelier – ABC News
VIDEO: Frank Guridy on Afro-Cubans and African Americans in the Jim Crow Era | @NotEvenPast
NEWS: Support the Amistad Research Center on GiveNOLA Day
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Happy May Day 2017 from #ADPhD
Revolution in Reverse?
Berry: Harriet Tubman isn’t the first black woman to appear on currency in the U.S.
Rothman Speaks About Georgetown University’s History With Slavery | The Georgetowner
Shepherd Interview on the Morant Bay Rebellion in The Voice
DIGITAL/NEWS: Slave Trade Database to Expand, Update Website | The Emory Wheel
Berry and Morgan: #Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
Interview: The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others | The UCSB Current
The Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
Penn Gazette Feature On Salamishah Tillet: Scholar, Teacher, Activist
- Vincent Harding (1931-2014) | Sam Greenlee (1930-2014)
Stephanie M. H. Camp (1967-2014)
Stuart Hall (1932 – 2014)
BOOK/NEWS: Second Edition of Jordan’s White Over Black Released
Edmund S. Morgan Dies at 97
TODAY: 8th Journée Nationale des Mémoires de la Traite, de l’Esclavage et de Leurs Abolitions
The President of Emory Praises 3/5ths Compromise (Context & Responses)
NEWS: Dylan Penningroth Wins 2012 Macarthur “Genius” Grant
Dayan Receives Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Award
NEWS: Heywood and Thornton Dispute Obama’s Slave-Ancestors Report
- WEB: The Internet Library of Sub-Saharan Africa (ilissAfrica)
- Blight: What gives the Confederacy its staying power?
- Queloides/Keloids: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art
- Mitchell: Portrait or Postcard? The Controversy over a “Rare” Photograph of Slave Children
- Conservator Helps Salvage Haiti’s Cultural Material
- Ted Fellow Cesar Harada Blogs 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Environment
- McGill Tours Slave Cabins to Preserve History – TheSunNews.com
- Jan-Mar 2010 Tubman Newsletter Available for Download
- Thioub on Slavery, Colonialism and Africa’s “Predatory Elites” (Interview)
- House Panel Backs Bill to Place Douglass, L’Enfant in Statuary Hall (WaPo)
- New Orleans African American Museum, Blacks in Wax Receive IMLS Museum Grants
- Temple Students Help Unearth New Jersey’s Early African-American History
- Possible Slave Cemetery at Virginia Commonwealth University (JBHE)
- Gates on Slavery “Blame Game” (and Response)
- Danticat Interview in Mother Jones
- Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea Tackles Women, Slavery in Haiti, New Orleans
- “Godmother of the Movement”: Dorothy Height Dies [Backdated]
- Dorothy Height, Civil Rights Hero, Has Died (NPR)
- Civil rights activist Dorothy Height in ‘very serious’ condition – CNN.com
- A Story Like No Other: Louisiana’s African American Heritage Trail
- Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards
- Harriet Tubman Relics Head to National Museum of African American History
- Ayiti Kraze / Haiti in Fragments Social Text)
- Film on Slavery Follows New England Family
- Havana’s Casa de las Américas in Solidarity with Haiti
- NYT on Henry “Box” Brown’s Escape from U.S. Slavery
- WEB: The Public Archive
- Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’
- African Burial Ground, and Its Dead, Are Given Life(NYT)
- Slaves in Utah alongside Brigham Young
- US Renames Mountain after Freedman John Ballard, a Blacksmith, Pioneer
- “Fireburn” National Holiday Proposed in St. Croix
- Logan Alexander on Gibbs-Hunts Family in Parallel Worlds
- WEB: Sylvette Online! on Maryland African-American Heritage
- Original Jazz CD Celebrates Frederick Douglass
- Actor and Activist Cy Grant Dies
- Lucille Clifton, Poet (1936-2010)
- SSRC Forum: Haiti, Now and Next