04/20/2013 - 05:04
WASHINGTON,─Joyce E. King, a Georgia State University professor who is expert in teacher education and Black culture and education, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Her term as president begins at the conclusion of AERA’s 2014 Annual Meeting, after one year of service as president-elect.
10/17/2012 - 15:14
CHICAGO -- MPAACT's 20th season begins with Idris Goodwin's BLACKADEMICS, a play set in a strange cafe where two fellow professors decide whether they are friends or enemies.
09/21/2012 - 15:32
SAN FRANCISCO -- The first sermon of Bethel A.M.E. was preached from jail, related long-time member Gilbert Sams, a retired transportation planner. The minister was detained because he was suspected of being a fugitive slave, so the members came down to jail to hear him.
09/15/2012 - 17:20
Choreographer Joanna Haigood's Zaccho Dance Theatre enacts Sailing Away, a powerful dance performed on San Francisco's Market Street between Powell and Battery Streets, through Sunday, Sept. 16 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It is an enactment of the Exodus of 1858, led by Mifflin W. Gibbs and Peter Lester, when African-Americans moved to Victoria, British Columbia. Travis Rowland is Peter Lester; Antoine Hunter is Mifflin Gibbs, Robert Henry Johnson is Grafton T. Brown; Raissa Simpson is Sara Lester, Matthew Wickett is Archy Lee, Byb Bibene is George Washington Dennis and Amara Tabor-Smith is Mary Ellen Pleasant as they portray eight Underground Railroad operatives who lived along Market Street during the 1850s.
