Rest in peace, John Singleton. I used your Poetic Justice in the classroom on the eve of making a transition into higher education. The twin towers had just fallen. New York City’s Washington Irving High hired me to teach English after I was laid off by BMG Entertainment amid the uncertainty in that day. Students… Continue reading rest in peace
This young person right here brought a huge smile to my face. She attends the Alberta School of the Arts in the City of Tuscaloosa. She is one of numerous students in the city who paid homage to the city and state’s bicentennial while telling stories concerning our shared past. When I asked her what… Continue reading Tuscaloosa Through The Years
HY 104 – American Civilization Since 1865 – Dr. Green Study Guide for Final Exam Spring 2019 What is détente? What is the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars? Who is Phyllis Schlafly? What is Proposition 13? What is neoliberalism? Who is Jimmy Carter and why does the Panama Canal matter to his legacy? What… Continue reading Let’s do it
I showed the rest of Jimi Hendrix: Electric church, a documentary, to my “American Civilization Since 1865” students who are interested in exploring the limitations and possibilities of postwar prosperity with the experiences of Hendrix, a guitarist who just happened to be African American, in mind. After class, I walked with a student who plans to… Continue reading electric church
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
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…
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
Tonight’s Space Matters event went very well. I was so pleased to see Kayla Merritt, Jamie Bonner, Lara Cuomo 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
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
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
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