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.
RECOLLECT A Distinguished Lecture Event: February 15, 2023 | We could not be more excited to introduce the inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Ideas & Organizing given by the inimitable @KeeangaYamahtta! An in-person prgrm on Feb. 15 w/Cheryl Harris @UCLA_Law & @ProfVestal @uclaurbnplnning and moderated by @ChallengeIneq's own @ananyaUCLA🔥 pic.twitter.com/
RECOLLECT Black Women and the Making of Democracy Event: October 25, 2022 | #Upcoming event for our #Philadelphia folks! Don’t miss @ericaadunbar’s #TruthBeTold #Keynote @Penn!! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 @ABWHTruth #BlackWomen and the making of Democracy! #Blktwitterstorians #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/WxW9Nb1AYX — JAAH (@JAAHistory) October 5, 2022 #CFP: @BlkPerspectives invites blog posts for an online forum on the topic of "
RECOLLECT Black Afterlives Matter, Too A battle for the preservation of Black cemetaries is now being waged. | Slavery descendants fight to memorialize a cemetery in MarylandDevelopment has forced many historically Black communities around the country to uproot and disperse. Cemeteries often remain the only proof that those communities existed.NPRMarisa Peñaloza “Slavery too is mostly
RECOLLECT "Making Black America" on PBS From PBS/ MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE is a four-part series from executive producer, host and writer Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which will premiere October 4th on PBS stations nationwide. Professor Gates, with directors Stacey L. Holman and Shayla Harris, chronicle the vast social networks and organizations created
RECOLLECT Still #1 What was the very first item donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture? Find out. | After an 11 p.m. phone call, this wooden boat seat from Ecuador became the first object in @NMAAHC's collection. Spot the image of the West African trickster character,
RECOLLECT Never Forget: ELLA BAKER For five decades Ella Baker (b. 1903 in Virginia) played a central, powerful, behind the scenes role in organizing for democracy, equality, & justice in the 20th century US. She collaborated with leaders from WEB DuBois to Rosa Parks. pic.twitter.com/02xhMym6mz — ChristinaProenzaColes (@ProenzaColes) October 4, 2022
RECOLLECT The SNCC Legacy Project Learn about the history of SNCC, including the Algebra Project, the Freedom Schools initiative, and its contribution to the Black Power movement, at their new educational platform. Never forget. Never, ever forget...who we are. | The SNCC Legacy Project is very excited to announce the launch of its new digital
RECOLLECT Aksum 101 Learn about the ancient African kingdom from historian and advocate, Isaac Samuel. | The complete history of Aksum: an ancient African metropolis (50-1900AD)Journal of African cities chapter-3African History Extraisaac Samuel
RECOLLECT Never Forget...the Black Lives Matter Fence. Keisha Blain informs us that a new online archive reveals how this space became an art gallery of resistance. | The new online archive is the most comprehensive look…at the ways the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence became an art gallery of resistance, representing the outpouring of grief & anger
RECOLLECT The Woman King Syllabus You've seen the movie. Now Alex Gil takes us a little deeper. | The Woman King SyllabusThe Woman King Syllabus is an open educational resource meant to aid the study of the historical period and themes explored in the movie The Woman King.Ana Lucia AraujoAna Lucia Araujo Alex
RECOLLECT For the Bookshelf A enduring story of memory and endurance. Event: October 11, 2022 | Check out this event where Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa discusses important themes on Oct. 11! https://t.co/Mpk2qV9cQp — Cite Black Women. (@citeblackwomen) October 2, 2022 Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa | HomeDahlma Llanos-Figueroa, PEN Finalist, writer, memoirist, Afro-Boricua, Puerto Rican, Daughters of the Stone
