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  • Found: Original Racial Violence Syllabus (November 2021)

    I knew I had to teach the course. After six years of graduate school, when V.P. Franklin and Bettye Collier-Thomas offered the opportunity to teach at Drexel University, it was my top priority. U.S. and African American history surveys were already the basic content I could teach with depth and agility. Collective Racial Violence was…

  • RARE: A Detailed Look at Red Bank’s “Westside” YMCA

    RARE: A Detailed Look at Red Bank’s “Westside” YMCA

    So much historical research relies on access to rare documents. The work of the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation would have been impossible without these resources. With the foundation’s recent Count Basie exhibit, access to the historic records of the “Westside” YMCA has become even more important. Based on the history provided in “Suburban Erasure”, it…

  • Historians at the Movies (October 2020)

    Dr. Walter D. Greason Social media has changed the ways scholars approach the creation and distribution of knowledge in profound ways.  Facebook pages for new monographs reach thousands of readers within a few days. Instagram posts generate questions about content and methods across disciplinary boundaries. LinkedIn searches help new institutions find promising candidates faster than…

  • Kindness during COVID-19

    The first article, Pandemic bringing community together through acts of kindness, highlights some of the actions people are taking to help each other through physically, mentally and financially crippling conditions of COVID-19 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/pandemic-bringing-community-together-through-acts-of-kindness/ar-BB12r0ft . . . . . . . . . The second article, Coronavirus kindness: San Francisco man serves free coffee to essential…

  • “As Coronavirus Alters Our World You May Be Grieving. Take Care Of Yourself”

    The featured article today is “As Coronavirus Alters Our World You May Be Grieving. Take Care Of Yourself”. This article gives insight on how we can recognize our losses, honor our grief and engage in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Faculty Resources During COVID-19

      Today’s featured article “How Faculty Members Can Support Students in Traumatic Times” provides faculty with resources on how to assist students grappling during this unprecedented time, how to shift to online learning, and how to integrate empathy into courses   Today’s other featured article “Moving Online Now ” provides faculty and staff members resources…

  • Parent Resources during COVID-19

    In the time of the COVID-19 crisis, parents are tasked with the duty of homeschooling. This is a monumental task which can leave parents and students frustrated. Over the next few days, we will be providing scholarly resources that attempt to provide answers for our helping heroes at home! ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Our first featured…

  • Presence and Absence in Leadership (March 2020)

    Harvard Business Review suggested that the most common form of incompetent leadership involves absenteeism. Too often, leadership theorists focus on the different ways that people try to be ‘present’ in team environments and then exercise ‘influence’ in pursuit of team goals. When leaders restrict their presence and influence, the void can be perceived as ‘absence.’…

  • Elwood David Watson, Keepin It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America (2019)

    Elwood David Watson, Keepin It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America (2019)

    Elwood David Watson delivers a collection of powerful essays in his new book, Keepin It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America. The symbolic evolution of African Americans over the last five years comes into clear focus. In the first section, Whitelash, Watson delivers a diagnosis about the misunderstanding of Barack Obama’s presidential administration between…

  • Damian Duffy and John Jennings, Parable of the Sower (2020)

    Damian Duffy and John Jennings, Parable of the Sower (2020)

    Octavia Butler’s gift for examining the nuances of human processes shines in the graphic adaptation of her novel, Parable of the Sower. Damian Duffy and John Jennings have exceeded the standard of excellence that they established with their historic bestseller, Kindred. The new text delves into a layered experience of collapse as a human process.…