Events Setting the Table Participate in this online special event from Black Perspectives, starting January 9, 2023. | From Black Perspectives / "Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for
RECOLLECT Ajami Remains The long used African writing system continues to more fully come to light. | From Molly Callahan via The Brink at Boston University / "What (Fallou) Ngom realized—slowly, and then with a bang—is that his father’s notes were just the beginning. He had proof that a centuries-old writing
RECOLLECT A Historical Landmark Hakim's Bookstore in Philadelphia is being honored as an offiicial Philly landmark. As it should be. | From Victoria Woodill via CBS Philadelphia / In just a few weeks, the small storefront that houses hundreds of works by African American authors will receive a big honor. It will soon be
Spirituality The Spirit of Struggle Cornel West and Panashe Chigumadzi contemplate how Desmond Tutu worked to reconcile "African" and "Black" theology. | Via Boston Review / "While many across the world remember postapartheid Tutu as the purple-robed presider of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who tried to reconcile Black and white South
Archeology Dig This. Zeinab Mohammed Salih and Jason Burke report on the growing number of homegrown African archeologists. | Via The Guardian/ "Heading down one staircase are Sabrine Jamal, Nadia Musa, Athar Bela and Sabrine al-Sadiq, all studying archaeology at Khartoum University. Not one of them is older than 24 and they see
RECOLLECT Stay Wake Working in conjunction with the Ida B. Wells Education Project, scholar and activist Rebecca Hall, author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, has developed discussion guides and learning lessons to help readers get more out of the book. | "Using in-depth archival research and the measured use
RECOLLECT Black in Alaska A new book by Ian Hartman and David Reamer uncovers an undertold history. | From author Ian Hartman, via Alaska Public Radio / "You’re not really talking about Alaska really coming under U.S. control until the 1860s and 70s. But there is an Alaskan Black presence that predates even
RECOLLECT 1619 Project: The Series From Nikole Hannah-Jones, premiering January 26th on Hulu. | The National Read AlongThe 1619 project prepares to help America read together, think together, and build together in 2023. | From 1619 / “The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing
RECOLLECT Explore African American Family History The Explore Your Family History Center at the National Museum of African American History and Culture is made possible by Robert F. Smith. Much love. | From the National Musuem of African American History and Culture / The Robert Frederick Smith Explore Your Family History Center helps people begin their family history
RECOLLECT Bouquet Now "In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy." | From Robin D.G. Kelley via Boston Review / "In gathering to give Farah her flowers now, we were not commemorating the end of a career, but to reimagining
RECOLLECT Upon This Mountain Artist Sasha Huber has mounted an extreme effort to recast the historical record. Much respect. | From Sean O'Hagan via The Guardian / "The previous year, Huber had joined a committee of activists, historians and artists involved in a campaign called Demounting Louis Agassiz. Their aim was to remove
Knowledge Stack The First Nick Biddle has been identifed as the first person wounded in the "Great American Rebellion." | From the University of Virginia / Nick Biddle, wounded in a mob attack in Baltimore in April 1861, commissioned a carte de visite portrait (John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection) to memorialize
SKY IS BLACK Deep Crossing "Recollection" is a colorful pedestrian street crossing in South Africa, produced by Our Future Cities, and designed by artist Al Luke.|
Events Martha Jones Speaks From Harvard Law School / Professor Martha S. Jones delivered the inaugural Belinda Sutton Distinguished Lecture at Harvard Law School, titled “What’s So Hard About Hard Histories?” Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. | WATCH.
RECOLLECT Build Back Black Join the movement to preserve, enhance, and elevate historic Black neighborhoods and commercial districts by strengthening connections between the people who serve them. | Historic African American Neighborhood and District Summit 2022Join us for the second annual HAANDS Summit in the Sweet Auburn Historic District, in Atlanta, Georgia.EventbriteWe Shall Overcome:
RECOLLECT Grave In the Water From Howard French via The Washington Post / "The scuba divers marched through the cobblestone streets of one of the world’s most infamous former slave ports, carrying tape measures, clipboards and fins. There was a Senegalese police officer who’d learned to dive the month before. A more seasoned
RECOLLECT The 1898 Wilmington Massacre and Coup Assistant Professor, DJ Polite, and author and journalist, David Zucchino, remind us what happened in North Carolina nearly 125 years ago. From DJ Polite via Black Perspectives / "The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 remains one of the clearest demonstrations of white supremacy and Jim Crow violently erasing the progress and
RECOLLECT This Is Big The Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal is now LIVE. | From the NMAAHC / "The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal provides unprecedented opportunities for family historians and genealogists to search for their ancestors and for scholars to research a variety of topics related to slavery and Reconstruction in the Freedmen’
RECOLLECT Tennessee Island Virtual Event: November 15, 2022 | From the Cumberland River Project / - REGISTER HERE "Hill’s Island–a space originally occupied by Native Americans—bears the name of one of most revered slave traders in the antebellum South. Although largely inaccessible to the general public, is an area of the
Events New York, Stand Up! Event: November 16, 2023 | The newly created New York State Commission on African American History will highlight contributions by Africans and African Americans to the United States and to New York State. From the NYSCAAH / "Partnering with community-based organizations, the New York State Commission on African American History will
RECOLLECT Look This Way Author Clint Smith ponders what lessons Germany can teach America about remembering the unthinkable. THIS is how we RECOLLECT... | From The Atlantic / "After spending time in Germany, I, too, gained a sense of clarity about the interconnectedness of racial oppression and state violence. I left with a clearer understanding
Events Get Immersed Event: 2022-2023 in select American and Canadian cities. | Produced by the Paquin Entertainment Group in partnership with National Geographic, the Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience utilizes nine distinct multi-sensory galleries to purpotedly unlock the 3,300 year old story of King Tut in an evolution of immersive experiences. Via
RECOLLECT Much Respect Elias Rodriques reminds us why author and professor, Saidiya Hartman, has been, and is, so pivotal. | From Elias Rodriques, via The Nation / "Saidiya Hartman has shaped studies of Black life for over two decades. Her first book, 1997’s Scenes of Subjection, argued that slavery was foundational to the
Events Black Homesteaders Event: November 19, 2022 | The International African American Museum will lead a discussion about the book Black Homesteaders of The South with author Bernice Alexander Bennett and additional speakers on Saturday, November 19th. Register HERE. November 19, 2022: Black Homesteaders of The South Workshop - International African American MuseumThe International
RECOLLECT Everyone Has Been Impacted by Slavery Read the recent, timeless analysis by historian Howard French. From Howard French / I mention my visit to Elmina Castle because of a polemic that has arisen recently about the uses of this site both in popular memory by tourists as well as by historians and journalists who write about the
