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.
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #4 Timothy Walker is professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the editor of Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad. Published by University of Massachusetts Press, Sailing to Freedom makes the case that a high percentage of successful slave escapes were achieved by using coastal
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #3 Kevin Dawson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Merced, and the author of Undercurrents of Power/Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora. Published by Penn Press, it is the definitive study of traditional West African relationships with water, oceans, rivers, and lakes. As Dawson reveals,
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #2 Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Boowey State University, with an expertise in slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, and her most recent work, Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women
RECOLLECT RECOLLECT - Episode #1 Peniel Joseph is the foremost scholar of the Black Power movement, and the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the award-winning Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour/A Narrative History of Black Power
Our World Weekly Pack It Up! Looted heritage from Ghana - currently being held in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London - may be coming home soon... “We are optimistic that a new partnership model can forge a potential pathway for these important artefacts to be on display in Ghana in the coming years."
RECOLLECT We See You, Baselyos. Your life and work will survive as long as the truth shall live. | This dynamic 17th C painting was produced by a black artist & scribe named Baselyos who lived in Lasta #Ethiopia His "trademark" was a painting of the bird ground hornbill. He also produced this Gospel
