RECOLLECT Ramifications Author Leslie Fenwick details how the long-term consequences of Brown v. Board of Education continue to be complex. | A new book by Howard University professor Leslie T. Fenwick shows how the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education led to the loss of Black educators and
RECOLLECT The New HCIC There's a new head curator in charge, and we couldn't be more excited! | Michelle Jacques Appointed Board President of Association of Art Museum Curators, Three Black Woman Will Hold Top Board Positions in 2023-24Incoming Board President Michelle Jacques THE ASSOCIATION of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) &
RECOLLECT Sister, Sister Event: October 3, 2022 | This Monday, October 3, catch @BlkNunHistorian in-person at @msmc_ny, speaking about her recent book "Subversive Habits."https://t.co/vQLLFgM4xO pic.twitter.com/5nIGeZcER0 — Duke University Press (@DukePress) October 1, 2022
RECOLLECT Black Environmentalisms Symposium It's our world. And yours, too. | Event: Yale University - October 13-14, 2022 Black Environmentalisms Symposium beginning Oct 13 @yale Scholars, writers, artists, and practitioners grappling with Black environmental precarity across the diaspora. Organized by @profiheka & Jonathan Howard #envhum #humanities https://t.co/AGoAiAhXmZ pic.twitter.com/
RECOLLECT AfricaTown Lives! Learn how the the Africans aboard the slave ship, Clotilda, made history. Never forget. Never, ever forget...who we are. | Exclusive: ‘Last American slave ship’ discovered in AlabamaThe schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.National GeographicJoel
RECOLLECT Claim/Reclaim Boston's free Black community alongside the recognition of Harvard's legacy of slavery. | Have you checked out our virtual exhibition w/ The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative at @RadInstitute? We Claim/Reclaim Space is dedicated to Darby Vassall, who played an important role in Boston’
RECOLLECT The Freedom Award goes to...? Jeffrey Robinson, for the "Who We Are Project." Never forget. Never, ever forget...who we are. | Event: October 20, 2022 | This year's #FreedomAward Special Tribute will recognize a leader blazing an unforgettable trail! @jeff_robinson56 is the creator of “The Who We Are Project,” which includes
RECOLLECT Remaking, and Rethinking, Black Power #ThrowbackThursday @LeftOfBlack S8:E13: Remaking Black Power -- How Black Women Transform an Era with @drashleyfarmer https://t.co/pOtdNhBFta pic.twitter.com/vAz8495hX8 — Left of Black (@LeftOfBlack) September 29, 2022
RECOLLECT Food for the Road Call for Book Chapters! | My heart is heavy missing @ASALH this year...but my heart is glad to be working with amazing scholars @FarBano and @pwilliamsforson on this collection, TRANSNATIONAL CULINARIANS: WOMEN OF COLOR AND FOOD STUDIES. Deadline July 2023. https://t.co/CqNwKJeZDy Catch y'all next year!
RECOLLECT The term "African Diaspora" was coined by...? Survey said? The Mecca. | My student totally got it in their exam! ♥️: "African Diaspora is a concept that was born in Mecca. The Mecca, in this circumstance, refers to the campus of Howard University ... Joseph Harris is the founder of the term African Diaspora..." 💯♥️😀 #twitterstorians — Ana Lucia Araujo,
RECOLLECT Commence the Drama Zahi Hawass, one of the most prominent Egyptologists in the world, and who does not believe the ancient Egyptians were Black, says he has found one of the most important mummmies ever. | Prominent Egyptologist Claims He Has Discovered the Lost Mummy of Queen NefertitiThe location of Nefertiti’s tomb is
RECOLLECT What Was Taken Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil reports on the forgotten history of what California stole from Black families. Never forget. Never, ever forget.... | The forgotten history of what California stole from Black familiesA multigenerational fight for reparations is underway from Palm Springs to Gold Rush countryThe GuardianCaitlin Yoshiko Kandil
RECOLLECT Decolonize Me We are extremely excited at LUCAS that it is only 4 days to go until we welcome @sjndlovugatshen for our masterclass and annual lecture. Please join us! @UgbaAbel @MandaS2021 @LeedsUniACS @ProfLukeWindsor @LeedsAHRI @CAS_SOAS @LeedsDocCollege @The_BIEA https://t.co/tgx1PNuGCR pic.twitter.com/fuInheZBKG — Leeds University Centre for African
RECOLLECT Picture This We are who we are. We are who we were. Never, ever forget...what time it is. | Large Format Photos Document Black Communities in the 1980s Deep South https://t.co/TR2ITuemHi — Left of Black (@LeftOfBlack) September 24, 2022
RECOLLECT Take Two If you didn't read the first edition, here's your second chance. | Official release date finally is here for the second edition of From Here to Equality #FHTE! pic.twitter.com/6v5OT9Ib4T — Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement. (@SandyDarity) September 21, 2022
RECOLLECT NOW HIRING: Davidson College New Cohort Hires in Africana Studies and Arts Aim to Diversify Davidson’s CurriculumDavidson College tenure track faculty positions available in areas including Africana Studies and non-Western visual and performing arts. Learn more.Davidson
RECOLLECT Getting the Full Story Not all history has a Hollywood ending. In fact, it hardly ever does. Thanks to Professor Araujo and scholars everywhere for helping us see the larger story and the larger history... | On African queens and rulers: Njinga of Angola Africa’s Warrior Queen by historian Linda M. Heywood. Njinga is
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #8 Natasha Henry is president of the Ontario Black History Society, and the author of several titles, including Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada, and Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada, among others. She is also the steward of a new research project entitled “One Too Many” - a
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #7 Graham Hodges is professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of several titles, including Black New Jersey from Rutgers University Press, The Marion Thompson Wright Reader from Rutgers Press, Pretends to Be Free from Routledge Press, Slavery, Freedom, and Culture among
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #6 Warren Milteer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the author of North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020), and his most recent work, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021). In
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #5 She is making waves and making a difference. Get to know Neo Griot, Kavon Ward, in this special edition of RECOLLECT. Never forget. Never, ever forget...who we are.