Today I have been notified that I am the recipient of a $10,000 grant. The American Council of Learned Societies award was very competitive (more than 150 proposals).
My research project will analyze the (mis)representation of Black bodies in Spanish museum iconography.
The AAPB is proud to announce a new exhibit honoring Black history!
"The Odyssey of Black Studies in Public Broadcasting" explores the history of Black Studies programs at American colleges and universities as they were discussed and presented in a select number of public radio and TV broadcasts archived in the AAPB collection: https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/odyssey-of-black-studies-in-public-broadcasting
I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!
Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?
A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.
@mekkaokereke Way before that I was fortunate to visit WEAA broadcast studios when Mark Steiner was there. I helped a Scout group complete the Journalism Merit Badge. #Baltimore#HBCU
"Every Historically Black College or University that has a radio station in the country stands to benefit from a grant to WYSO...The Miami Valley Public Media station is receiving $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to support The HBCU Radio Preservation Project. There are currently 104 HBCUs, and of those, 29 have active radio stations."
Capitol #police in Jackson, Mississippi opted to go full Jim Crow for #ElectionDay , setting up racial-profiling road blocks near precincts around the local #HBCU and checking IDs. Like Nina said: everybody knows about Mississippi. #election#StopCopCity#racism#voting
An historically Black medical college and pharmaceutical industry group began a program to increase the numbers of people of African descent in genomic databases.
"There's been a #MassShooting at #MorganState University, an #HBCU, in #Baltimore. Several people have been shot. Situation is ongoing & very fluid."
"Agenda Free (my personal fav for breaking news) is streaming coverage live on YouTube."
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced it will bestow a replacement Oscar on Hattie McDaniel, 60 years after hers went missing. The statue will be given to Howard University, as McDaniel intended. She was the first Black person to win a competitive Academy Award, which was given in 1940 for her supporting performance in “Gone with the Wind.” Variety has the details.