At a numerous and respectable meeting of the Africans and their descendants, of the city of New-York, held the 2nd day of Dec 1807, at the African School Room, Cliff Street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of celebrating the day on which the act, passed by the Congress of the United [...]
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on being acknowledged.
I became a librarian to facilitate original scholarship that builds out complexity of the historical record. Some time ago, as a Dartmouth College Lathem Fellow at Rauner Special Collections Library, I got to build on some of my undergrad research assisting Dr. Woody Lee on his Rev. Edward Mitchell, '28 project. Dr. Lee had an a suspicion that Rev. [...]
Day 6. Kumbaa, #CELEBRATE, Ch. 3
Day 6. Kumbaa
7 Days of Kwanzaa. 7 Excerpts from Chapter 3 of a forthcoming essay series, “#CELEBRATE: Meditations on a Black Festive Culture.”