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
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
