“How do you get past race if you don’t even want to admit that something happened?”-by Andre E. Johnson On Thursday February 25, 2016, I had an opportunity to do the Talk, Memphis Podcast with David Waters of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. In our discussion, not only did we talk about the Rhetoric Race and […]
Continue reading →On January 27 and 28, 2016, Will Wilson, Park Guide at Vicksburg National Military Park (a unit of the National Park Service) participated in the teachers’ workshop sponsored by Facing History & Ourselves. Here’s what Will had to say: I was one of two National Park Service personnel in attendance, while most participants were teachers […]
Continue reading →By Steven Tramel Gaines “It was a deliberate act of concealment.” Dr. Susan O’Donovan of the Department of History said those words about “the silence that continues to surround Reconstruction and which dampens public understanding of what was arguably one of the most foundational periods in national history.” O’Donovan delivered a lecture, as part of the […]
Continue reading →Below are the tweets from Drs. Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan’s discussion on Leonard Pitt’s novel Freeman. To listen to the discussion here. [View the story “Discussion on Leonard Pitts’ Freeman” on Storify]
Continue reading →Below is a portion of the text of the talk that Dr. Andre E. Johnson gave on Tuesday February 16, 2016 as part of Black History Month at the University of Memphis. To listen the talk, click here. On Thursday, December 10, 2015, a jury found former Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of multiple counts […]
Continue reading →by Susan O’Donovan That was the question Dr. Andre E. Johnson of the Department of Communications put to a packed room on February 16 at the University Center. In a moving address, Dr. Johnson reminded his audience that black truths do not always matter today. Black testimony is too easily discounted and disregarded. This is […]
Continue reading →by Susan O’Donovan The racial violence that swept Memphis in early May 1866 was no accident. Indeed, very little happens in a vacuum: not wars, not revolutions, not even the sinking of the Titanic. Histories, it turns out, have their own histories, and one of the historian’s tasks is to figure out why things happened. […]
Continue reading →Dr. Susan O’Donovan, co-director of the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project will offer an overview of the Memphis Massacre. Titled “Reconstruction’s Untold Story,” Dr. O’Donovan will offer an interactive lecture designed to engage audience members to ask, answer, or even pose questions of their own. Since there are no historical markers, no statutes that […]
Continue reading →Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project, Dr. Andre E. Johnson gave the Black History Month lecture at the University of Memphis. Below are some of the tweets about and during the lecture. [View the story “Does Black Truth Matter?” on Storify]
Continue reading →Leaders of the Memories of a Massacre Project will present two talks on the campus of the University of Memphis. In the first one, Communication Director Dr. Andre E. Johnson will give a talk titled “Does Black Truth Matter?: Black Lives and the Disregard and Recovery of Black Truth.” In it, Johnson will argue that […]
Continue reading →Southwest Tennessee Community College will present Dr. Beverly Bond with the Carter G. Woodson Award of Merit. According to their website, the school created the award in 1988 to “recognize individuals, groups, or agencies who have contributed to, preserved, or promoted the African-American experience and who support Dr. Woodson’s legacy of “historical accuracy through inclusion.” […]
Continue reading →Malvin Massey, General Manager of WUMR FM 91.7 and host of Spotlight 92 , taped a radio interview with Dr. Andre E. Johnson on the Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Project. Dr. Johnson talked about the origins of the project and some of the upcoming events. He also suggested why an understanding of […]
Continue reading →On February 3, the Memories of a Massacre Project kicked off its commemoration of the Memphis Massacre in 1866 with an event sponsored by LeMoyne-Owen College. In celebration of the college’s 91st celebration of Black History Month, Dr. Bobby Lovett spoke on the importance of remembering and celebrating Black History while at the same time, […]
Continue reading →As part of the African American History program at LeMoyne-Owen College, on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, Dr. Bobby Lovett, Professor Emeritus at Tennessee State University will offer a lecture titled, “HBCUs: Hallowed Grounds of African American Education.” The lecture will start at 11:00am and take place at Metropolitan Baptist Church located at 767 Walker Avenue in […]
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