musings
Corrine Bailey Rae on the turntable: Holiest of mysteries it’s all green And everything that I have planted is grown And all I need is time, earth, water and the sunlight… all the memories grow Advertisements
nine years…
This summer it will be nine years since I left Greensboro, NC, for the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. I was headed to a Summer Pre-doctoral Fellow program. I’d complete my PhD in History there, having taken earlier coursework at the University of Chicago where I earned an MA in History.I remember the sense of… Continue reading nine years…
homecoming
I loved Beyonce’s Homecoming, which premiered on Netflix this week. It brought back memories of driving to Florida A & M University since I was a preteen for the Classic and especially when I was a student at the University of Miami. There is something about being on a historically black college campus that can… Continue reading homecoming
space mattered alright
Tonight’s Space Matters event went very well. I was so pleased to see Kayla Merritt, Jamie Bonner, Lara Cuoma and Jake Osachy, four students from last semester’s “Antebellum America” course not only introducing the event, but asking questions of our guest speaker during the Q & A again and again! I was also overjoyed when… Continue reading space mattered alright
space matters…tonight
Geeked about the unveiling of the “Space Matters” digital installation this evening at the University of Alabama Gorgas’ House Museum & welcoming The New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, our keynote speaker. She will be touring UA with my cherished colleague Dr. Hilary Green before her talk. Special thanks to many including my colleague Dr. John… Continue reading space matters…tonight
maddening power and not
This week, the graduate students enrolled in my “Gender, Race and Urban Space” course turn to Nikki M. Taylor’s Driven Towards Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2014). I love this book. It has the analytical rigor required of historians, but also the intimacy of an African… Continue reading maddening power and not
space matters
Work continues on the upcoming Space Matters installation that will open with New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez reading from a short story set in the South. We are in the final stretch. The above image was sent to the University of Alabama’s eTech folks for view on hallway television monitors around campus. Meanwhile,… Continue reading space matters
