Academic Minute: Race and National Identity in France
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Today on the Academic Minute: Katelyn Knox, associate professor in the department of languages, linguistics, literatures and cultures at the University of Central Arkansas, explores how to fight racism in a purportedly postracial society. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO | Associated Press Apr 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021
CHICAGO (AP) â As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root.
When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, decades later in 2009, her grandparents temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. When I walk through the cemetery, it s like walking down the old streets of my community, she said.
Similar Black cemeteries are scattered throughout the United States, telling the story of the country s deep past of cemetery segregation. As these burial grounds for the dead mirrored the racial divisions of the living, Black communities organized to defend the dignity of their deceased and oppose racist cemetery policies.
CHICAGO (AP) As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, decades later in 2009, her grandparents' temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. “When I walk through the cemetery, it’s like walking down the old streets of my community," she said.
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EOSC | Submitted photoEastern President Dr. Janet Wansick (far left) gathers with honorees at the 2021 Sapphire Ball. Honorees include (from left to right) Sam Wampler of Sam Wamplerâs Freedom Ford, Presidentâs Community Spirit Award; Kerri Jones and Stephenie Ingram, Distinguished Alumnus Award; Marci OâDonley, J.C. Hunt Award for Staff Excellence; and Heather Spiegel, Presidentâs Excellence in Teaching Award. featured
By Trish McBeath EOSC Communications Apr 29, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
EOSC | Submitted photoEastern President Dr. Janet Wansick (far left) gathers with honorees at the 2021 Sapphire Ball. Honorees include (from left to right) Sam Wampler of Sam Wamplerâs Freedom Ford, Presidentâs Community Spirit Award; Kerri Jones and Stephenie Ingram, Distinguished Alumnus Award; Marci OâDonley, J.C. Hunt Award for Staff Excellence; and Heather Spiegel, Presidentâs Excellence in Teaching Awar