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Intersecting Identities: Perspectives on Culture and Nationhood of African and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 111 James P Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA, United States

Intersecting Identities: Perspectives on Culture and Nationhood of African and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Intersecting Identities: Perspectives on Culture and Nationhood of African and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas is an interdisciplinary seminar held during Native American Heritage Month that seeks to bring together scholars, cultural preservationists, and community members to discuss the intersections and […]

Planet Deep South: ATL 2020

Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 111 James P Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA, United States

Planet Deep South: ATL 2020 Planet Deep South: ATL 2020 is an interdisciplinary conference open to all scholars, artists, and students that explores the intellectual and creative expression of African people. Through a series of presentations and panel discussions, the conference is designed to inspire the inquiry of Africana cultural production through a digital, historical […]

Trailblazing African American Women of Coastal Georgia

St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church and Parish Hall 401 Fort King Georgia Drive, Darien, GA

Trailblazing African American Women of Coastal Georgia Melissa Cooper, author of Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination will deliver the keynote lecture for "Trailblazing African American Women of Coastal Georgia." Cooper will address the context from which Geechee women emerged, and three "trailblazers" will be highlighted by additional speakers: […]

From Being Property to Owning Property

From Being Property to Owning Property This virtual presentation from the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum in Thomasville will provide a brief history of the Stevens Street District in Thomasville, one of the few remaining and intact African American neighborhoods built after the Civil War. Included in this presentation is part of the museum’s story itself—it […]

River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology, and Culture in Southeast Georgia, “The Tragedies of Ebo Landing”: Lecture by Dionne Hoskins-Brown

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

The 1803 mass suicide of enslaved people at Glynn County's Dunbar Creek is recounted by historian Dionne Hoskins-Brown. She reveals the desperation of slavery through lyrical motifs about the Back body, water, and life and death in coastal Georgia.

African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century – Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

Join The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. as they present "African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century," a lecture series exploring the lives and work of African-American writers. This installment of the 8-part series will focus on Booker T. Washington.

$15

African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century – A White Woman Reads W.E.B. Dubois

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

Join The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. as they present "African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century," a lecture series exploring the lives and work of African-American writers. This installment of the 8-part series will focus on W.E.B. Dubois.

$15

African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century: Zora Neale Hurston and the Spirit of the South

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

Join The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. as they present "African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century," a lecture series exploring the lives and work of African-American writers. This installment of the 8-part series will focus on Zora Neale Hurston.

$15

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert

Auburn Avenue Research Library 101 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, GA, United States

Join Georgia Humanities and the Auburn Avenue Research Library for a discussion of the book Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly. A professor at Tufts University, Erin Kelly will be in conversation with Patsy Rembert, widow of Winfred Rembert, who died […]

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