RECOLLECT Remembering Prince Ibrahima The unprecedented ceremony, organized by the Natchez Historical Society, will take place on October 24th and feature the installation of a historical marker, a celebration of life, and remarks from Michael Morris, Director of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. According to the Lowcountry Digital
RECOLLECT Author Emily Riley to Discuss the Role of Women in Wolof Cultural Politics Emily Jenan Riley is an assistant professor and researcher at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Michigan State University and a BA in Anthropology from Oregon State University. The event will take place on October 14th
RECOLLECT The Tomb of Amenhotep III Reopens after 20 Years The 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Amenhotep III, ruled ancient Kemet from approximately 1390 to 1350 B.C., and was buried in the famous Valley of the Kings. The reopening, according the the Associated Press, is part of Egypt’s efforts to "...attract more foreign visitors to revive the tourism sector,
RECOLLECT On This Day: Ethiopia vs. Italy - The Rematch In hopes of avenging its devastating defeat to Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa in 1888 (1896 in the Gregorian calendar), Italian dictator Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935. According to BlackPast, "The war began on October 3, 1935, when General Emilio De Bono marched his troops
RECOLLECT It's Gullah Geechee Heritage Month! Explore books and other resources to learn more about this historic and vitally important African-American community. From the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor: "The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. Many came
RECOLLECT Remembering Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan Dr. Morgan was the Ernest E. Monrad Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the founder of the world's first hip-hop archive. According to Jamal Watson at The Edu Ledger, the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute opened
RECOLLECT Remembering the Great Axumite Empire. At its height, the kingdom of Axum controlled northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, northern Sudan, southern Egypt, Djibouti, Yemen, and southern Saudi Arabia. Sandra Babu-Boateng of the Black Stars Experience discusses... To see ruins from the ancient kingdom of Axum, check out this video (in Amharic) from Ethiopia's Kana TV.
PAN-AFRICAN FOOD FESTIVAL Soup Joumou Time! In this video session from PBS Voices, learn more about the history of Haiti's signature freedom dish.
SKY IS BLACK SKY IS BLACK - Episode #57 Anton and BC discuss investing with artificial intelligence, the Netflix documentary, Descendant, and the African-American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
RECOLLECT Never Forget: BARRY FARM A collaboration between The Bertelsmann Foundation and the DC Legacy Project, this documentary about Barry Farm, directed by Sabiyha Prince and Samuel George, is available for viewing online. |
RECOLLECT The Black Geographic A redefinition of the field, edited by Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis. | From Duke University Press / "The contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the
RECOLLECT Panama in Black Professor Marcus Johnson considers Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. | Via Black Perspectives: "Panama in Black differs from many of the monographs that precede it, because it makes a conscious attempt to elevate the voices and contributions of Afro-Caribbean women in the struggle to create a Black diasporic world
RECOLLECT The Real Purpose of African-American Studies Northwestern professor, Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, and UCLA professor, Robin D.G. Kelly, discuss the new Advanced Placement class in African American studies. Neither one made the cut. / From The New Yorker / On Wednesday, February 1st, the first day of Black History Month, the College Board released its long-awaited curriculum for a
RECOLLECT Real History Matters In keeping with their responsibility as griots and culture keepers, a powerful cadre of academics, including Vincent Brown, Cornel West, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, and Mark Anthony Neal, stand up for the value of African-American studies. | From African American Studies Faculty via Medium / "We are over 200 African American Studies
RECOLLECT Silenced No More Stanford professor, Joel Cabrita, surfaces the suppressed story of South African writer, Regina Twala. From The Guardian / Twala had been a writer, intellectual and anti-colonial political activist of the 1950s and 60s. She was born in South Africa, but after her arrest in 1952 for participating in the non-violent resistance
RECOLLECT Remember Nubia From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan exhibit runs at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles until April 3, 2023. | From the Getty Villa / "For nearly 3,000 years a series of kingdoms flourished in ancient Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan)
RECOLLECT Forever Grateful Tuskegee Airman, Harold H. Brown, has passed. Thank you, brother. Rest in Peace and Power. | From Sam Roberts via the New York Times / Harold H. Brown, who as a teenager overcame racial prejudice in the American South to become an Army Air Corps fighter pilot during World War II — a
RECOLLECT What Have We Here? Archeologists find Hekashepes, whose mummified remains might be the oldest ever. | From CBS News / Egyptian archaeologists who have spent years meticulously excavating a site amid the ancient ruins of Saqqara, near Cairo, announced a number of major discoveries on Thursday dating to the fifth and sixth dynasties of Egypt'
RECOLLECT Catch the Wave Playing at the upcoming Pan-African Film Festival and Santa Barbara Film Festival, Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture reclaims the 1,000-year-old tradition of Black surfing. | From the Wade in the Water Project / Created by David Mesfin, an award-winning creative director and multidisciplinary designer,
RECOLLECT Read This. Cornell professor Olúfémi Táíwò contends the term "precolonial Africa" needs to be reconsidered and rejected. From Aeon / As used, the term ‘precolonial’ Africa and the distortions it represents cannot illuminate our understanding of Africa and its history. More importantly, it is wrong to think of colonialism as a
Our World Weekly Innocence Lost Event: January 19, 2023 | Author Tanya Katerí Hernández continues to detail disturbing aspects of the ongoing Black freedom struggle. | Register HERE. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The
RECOLLECT Section 14 The city burned down a community for commercial development. Today, residents in Palm Springs, California make their case for reparations. Now. | From Sonya Singh via The Guardian / Six decades ago, hundreds of people in Palm Springs, California, came home to ashes. Their houses had burned, sometimes with their belongings inside
RECOLLECT The Revolutionary Will Be Recognized Author and professor Peniel Joseph, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, offers a more authentic and accurate recollection of our slain brother, Martin. LISTEN HERE. | Martin Luther King Jr. was a revolutionary - WDET 101.9 FMEven Malcolm X misunderstood what King meant by non-violence
RECOLLECT A Brush with History Artist George McCalman's recently released book paints history in new light. | From Emily Hofstaedter via Mother Jones / "It is fitting that I interview illustrator and designer George McCalman on All Saints’ Day. When I flip through his new book, Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and Unseen,
Events The King Lecture in Social Justice Hybrid Event: January 25, 2023 | From the University of Pennsylvania / Penn's Center for Africana Studies presents its MLK Jr. Lecture in Social Justice featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Hannah-Jones has spent her
