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
RECOLLECT Black West Virginia Stephen Starr details an underappreciated African American community for the BBC. | "Fleeing white-led violence and racial segregation laws (known as Jim Crow laws) in Southern states after the end of the US Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865, African Americans streamed north into the coal fields
RECOLLECT Decoding Hieroglyphics. We'll See. The exploration from Secrets of the Dead on PBS premieres November 2, 2022. | Paleography expert Elizabeth Bettles is deciphering the handwriting of each hieroglyphic to identify the painter of this mysterious tomb. "Decoding Hieroglyphics" premieres Wednesday November 2 at 10/9c on PBS. #SecretsDeadPBS pic.twitter.com/YFkhzrg8il
RECOLLECT Omar - The Opera. From the LA Opera / In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's life and Muslim faith are remembered and retold in this inspirational West Coast premiere inspired by his remarkable 1831 autobiography
RECOLLECT Barbara Jenkins. Rest in Peace and Power. She is how we RECOLLECT. She was 88. | From The Post and Courier / "Jenkins was committed to documenting sites relevant to Black history in the state, leading an effort to install more than 300 markers over 30 years. She spent much of her career at S.C. State University
Knowledge Stack The Latin American Studies Association The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. With over 13,000 members, over 60% of whom reside outside the United States, LASA is the one association that brings together experts on Latin
RECOLLECT Finding the Remains of Canada's Black Loyalists A report from the CBC'S Anjuli Patil. | From the CBC / Black Loyalists supported the British during the American Revolutionary War beginning in 1775. Thousands of them settled in Nova Scotia. The search for their graves took place Monday at Fort Anne's Garrison Graveyard. "Today is
RECOLLECT The National Read Along The 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 legacy at the center of our national narrative. The project,
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #10 Hakim Adi is Professor of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester, and the most prominent and preeminent scholar of Blacks in the UK. He is the author of several titles, including Black British History, New Perspectives, West Africans in Britain/1900-1960, and the focus of this
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #9 Verena Krebs is the author of Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book explores why Ethiopia’s Solomonic kings initiated long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen delegations dispatched
RECOLLECT Never Forgotten One of our last living ties to slavery in the United States has passed. | From the Equal Justice Inititative / Daniel R. Smith, 90, passed away this week in Washington. He was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, The Washington Post wrote in his obituary. Mr. Smith’
RECOLLECT Leave Us Alone? Haitian novelist, Edwidge Danticat, continues to demand sovereignty and sensibility for the world's first Black republic. | Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat is Edwidge Danticat is the author of many books, including, most recently, “[Everything Inside](https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Inside-Stories-Edwidge-Danticat/dp/0525521275).” on The New Yorker. Read Edwidge Danticat’s
RECOLLECT The Tower of Freedom Turns 21 The Amherstburg Freedom Museum gathered to celebrate the monument's 21st anniversary. | 1/3 Today we gathered at the Tower of Freedom for 'Words & Monuments' in celebration of the Monument's 21st anniversary. The program featured moving poetry from Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto, Bunmi Africa Onanaye
Events Daufuskie Island and Beyond! Event: October 20, 2022 | From the NMAAHC/ Join Digital Treasures: Daufuskie Island and Beyond! as we explore the resiliency and preservation of Gullah Geechee heritage. Enjoy a culturally rich Live Program from 2:00PM - 3:00PM that explores the beauty of Daufuskie Island, SC and the surrounding Gullah communities.
RECOLLECT The Write Stuff Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and six others receive the prestigious W.E.B.DuBois Medal. Let's recognize. | English professor Tracy K. Smith ’94 introduced Adichie as someone “consecrated to the work of the word.” “I’m so grateful for this award because, again, it just makes me think that
RECOLLECT Going Home See all 29 of the items being returned by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art to Nigeria. As discussed on SKY IS BLACK, repatriating the so-called Benin Bronzes is absolutely the right thing to do. | The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes
RECOLLECT Black Latinos at Tuskegee A report by Tiffany Cusaac-Smith for USA Today. | Black Latinos found a future in an Alabama HBCU after slavery: "Black Cubans + Puerto Ricans drawn to Jim Crow Alabama from late 1890s through 1920s to attend Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute under Washington" #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians https://t.co/ZW21NFLxpE
Events Making and Marking History The 2022 Association of Black Women Historians Symposium will feature several activities including the annual luncheon, a plenary session, professional development workshops, concurrent academic sessions, a keynote address with Treva B. Lindsey, and the ABWH annual business meeting. This year, the annual luncheon is the Living Legends Luncheon featuring special
RECOLLECT Endangered Black Spaces Event: October 13-15, 2022 | An upcoming conference at Prarie View A&M seeks to preserve historically signifcant African-American places. | Wildfire Destroys a Piece of Black History in Rural California https://t.co/BRVsNhCEhg — California African American Museum (@CAAMinLA) October 10, 2022 The last thing we need is another non-African
Events The Colored Convention Movement Event: October 18-19, 2022 | Home - Colored Conventions ProjectThe Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirroring the collective nature of the nineteenth-century Colored Conventions, CCP uses innovative, inclusi…Colored Conventions Project
Events Do You Hear What We Hear? Event: October 15, 2022 | Join us for the public-facing part of this event on Saturday, Oct 15, 9:30am-3:30pm ET. There'll be presentations on sound objects and a concert. Made possible by @CRE2_WashU @WashUHumanities @OIEAHC @CNUcaptains @VCU and VCA. Co-organized w @MissCaton Sarah Finely + Sarah Eyerly
RECOLLECT Until We Are Free Scholar Keisha Blain shares how Fannie Lou Hamer's life, work, and message still speak to contemporary America. A Black Perspective. | "Despite the voluminous scholarship on Black women leaders in the movement, including the pioneering works of Barbara Ransby, Jeanne Theoharis, Vicki L. Crawford, Joseph Fitzgerald, and many
RECOLLECT Black Brazil The largest population of African descent outside of Africa is found in Brazil. And the reach goes far beyond Bahia. Never, ever forget...where we are. | 2) But law number 10.639/03 isn't enforced. Inspired by the #1619project @TiagoRogero launched a series of podcasts on Afro-Brazilian history.
