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Black Women Giving Birth in Prison Face Surveillance Disguised as Medical Care

Ms. Brandi Locke, graduate student, African American Public Humanities Initiative scholar and  Colored Conventions Fellow, University of Delaware speaking at the event “Undisputed Dignity: Preserving Black Women’s History and Material Culture: A Symposium” an event held in Founders Library at Howard University. Sponsored by the Digital Production Center of the […]

Denise Burgher’s virtual submission to the Religion Society Conference in Grenada, Spain.  April 2019.  Black abolitionist conversion narrative. “Frederick Douglass, Heroic Slave and Madison Washington as the Embodied Divine.  

An interview with the the outspoken and quite busy Ethan Scott Barnett, often found passionately chatting with a wide array of people around Kingston, NY – a great interview subject as well as interesting human had been found. Thank you to Ethan for taking time and agreeing to be this […]

By Mali Collins-White, PhD student in English at the University of Delaware, and a 2018-2019 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of citizenship, intersectional activism, and public scholarship, important topics of the upcoming Imagining America national gathering, Oct. 19-21, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois https://imaginingamerica.org/2018/09/28/black-birthing-history-imagined-at-the-site-of-the-body/  

The Library Company of Philadelphia 2018-2019 Research Fellows have been announced, and include AAPHI Scholar Denise Burgher as the long-term Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow.  Denise Burgher, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Delaware, Redeeming the Banished Spirit: Naming the Theological Praxis in Nineteenth-Century Black […]

AAPHI Scholar Mali Collins-White was awarded a a position in the Emerging Archival Scholar Program from the Archival Education & Research Institute for the second year in a row. This year, she attended their annual conference at the University of Toronto. Upon completion, she was awarded a 2018 research grant […]

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The Colored Conventions Speakers: Sarah Patterson and James Casey, University of Delaware (grant number HD-248462-16)