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  • accessing the private: paul klee’s digital diaries

    accessing the private: paul klee’s digital diaries

    A version of this article by Faena Aleph appears in print on March 17, 2016, in “Aleph Recommends” of the Faena Aleph digital magazine.

    accessing the private: paul klee’s digital diaries

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    [header photo credit: Zantrum Paul Klee/Bleistift und Farbstift auf Papier, 33 x 21 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, PN5 M4/112]

    “I and Color are One” -P. Klee

    The grand artist of visual language left more than drawings and paintings. His personal notebooks are as beautiful as any of his finished works and can be accessed by the digital archive at Zantrum Paul Klee.

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  • on being acknowledged.

    on being acknowledged.

    I became a librarian to facilitate original scholarship that builds out complexity of the historical record.

    Noble_and_Independent_Course-AcknowledgementSome 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. Mitchell was potentially the first admitted black student in the Ivy league and I, too, was curious to find out if was true.

    Imagine my excitement to find out that 5 years later, Dr. Lee’s project has birthed into a full work: Lee, F. A., & Pringle, J. S. (2018). A Noble and Independent Course: The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell. Dartmouth College Press. [WorldCat]
    For purchase from University Press of New England: https://www.upne.com/1512602845.html

    Many congrats, Woody!

    For more information on Dr. Lee’s research, watch his 35-minute presentation “Ivy League Pioneers: Black Students at Dartmouth, 1775–1950″ (2015) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4EGynO2uDc

  • urban apologist, Ernest Grant x Ancient African Christianity

    urban apologist, Ernest Grant x Ancient African Christianity

    ERNEST CLEO GRANT II
    JANUARY 18, 2018
    Christianity Today | January 2018 Issue 

    “It’s ironic that as I crossed
    the Walt Whitman Bridge
    to attend
    an urban apologetics conference
    in Philadelphia”

    I encountered the very religious pluralism
    that makes conferences such as these a necessity.

    As my weathered SUV pulled up to the stoplight,
    I could see the Marcus Garvey–inspired
    Pan-African flag pirouetting in the wind,
    and I…

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