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Urbanist and historian Thomas J. Campanella, a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, was researching a book when he first came across the name Verdelle Louis Payne.Payne, who was born October 1, 1919, at 212 Cascadilla St. in Ithaca – also the birthplace of “Roots” author Alex Haley in 1921 – was a member of the famed...
A virtual conference on “Toni Morrison at 90 “ was held in São Paulo Brazil on Thursday and Friday September 29 & 30, 2021 and featured presentations by Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Carole Boyce Davies and Emerita Professor Anne Adams. View the presentations here:Professor Boyce Davies' Session: Morrison 90 - Raça,...
"ITHACA, N.Y.—On Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, the St. James A.M.E. Zion Church commenced an archaeological dig to help further detail the church’s role helping the Underground Railroad free escaped slaves.At 9 a.m., the Rev. Terrance King, pastor of St. James, spoke to those in attendance at the church, followed by other local speakers—Dr. Adam...
The Cornell World Gender in Translation International Research Network will present a round table discussion around the translations of Toni Morrison's works, Friday, October 1st, 3:30-5:00, Klarman Hall Rm. 164. The featured speaker will be Mme. Dominique Bourgois, the French editor, literary agent, and ‘porte-parole’ of Toni Morrison’s works in...
"In a speech delivered to the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America held in Havana in January 1966, Cabral posed the question: “does history begin only from the moment of the launching of the phenomenon of class, and consequently, of class struggle? Cabral raised this question because he is concerned with...
"Ms. Moore fell into acting after moving from Kansas City to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, where she worked for the cosmetics line Max Factor and then joined a theater workshop. 'She was having a really difficult time while living in Los Angeles, some mental health difficulties,' said Samantha N. Sheppard, a Cornell University film scholar who...
"On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, we look at what it would take to bring the world’s greatest athletic competition, the Olympics, to Africa.Host Haydé Adams is joined by Mwamoyo Hamza, acting managing editor of VOA’s Africa Division, Paul Frimpong, an economist at the Institute of Certified Chartered Economists, Radwa Saad, a Ph.D....
"...Critical articles and essays included in the special issue by Patrick D. M. Taylor, Myriam Moïse, and Attillah Springer reveal in different ways what it means to locate and theorise “Caribbean Global Movements” through the centering of Haiti and revolutionary movements. Taylor re-reads resistance and the spiritual practice of Obeah in Barbados...
ITHACA, N.Y.(WENY)-- St. James AME Zion Church in Ithaca is the oldest standing church in upstate New York, and many professors as well as Ithaca residents, point to documents that link this historic church directly to the Underground Railroad. In September of 2020 Reverand, Terrance King along with trustee Nick Sledziona teamed up with...
"The geographical position of the UAE, the institute director Salah M. Hassan noted, makes it a natural site from which to understand the crossroads of migration and trade that traverse the Arabian Sea.'This area has had a host of different types of population mixing and linkages with Africa,' says the scholar, who is also a professor at Cornell...
"Bivins [Joy Bivins received a Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree in African & Afro-Amer Studies on January 15, 2003.] joined the Schomburg — a division of the New York Public Library and a leading repository for archival materials related to African, African diaspora and African American life, history and culture — in 2020 as an...
Mukoma Wa Ngugi, associate professor of literatures in English, was quoted on the Kiswahili Prize in The Conversation article, "New Kiswahili science fiction award charts a path for African languages:""The 6th edition of The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, suspended last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is back. Founded...
"In a June 19, 2020, interview with North Country Public Radio (t.ly/6rp0), Margaret Washington, Cornell University professor of American history, provided welcome context on the roots of Juneteenth, as well as on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s then-recent decision to make June 19 a state holiday. Washington is also a board member of the nonprofit John Brown...
“'Ultimately, it’s about us as a society saying these privileges and luxuries and comforts that folks in the middle class — or however we describe these economic classes — have, how much are they worth to us?” Jamila Michener, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, told me. “And are they worth certain levels of deprivation or...
"The author’s life, literary trips and adventures have taken him across Africa with music as a constant companion.Mukoma Wa Ngugi is an associate professor of literatures in English at Cornell University and the author of Unbury our Dead with Song (Cassava Republic Press, £11.99), which is available at The Guardian Bookshop"Read the entire...
“For decades afterward, the events of that day were downplayed or outright ignored by officials in Oklahoma and elsewhere. The centennial has afforded activists and educators an opportunity to revive the conversation about the massacre and recontextualize it for a post-George Floyd America.'This year, the event coincides with a cultural and...
"Jamila Michener is an associate professor of government at Cornell University and a co-director of Cornell’s Center for Health Equity. She does remarkable research on the intersection of race, poverty and public policy and speaks about all of it with uncommon humanity. We discuss the role of poverty in the economy, cultural narratives around work...
"Olúfémi Táíwò is Professor of African Political Thought at the Africana Studies and Research Center, at Cornell University. Born in Nigeria, his work aims to expand the African reach in philosophy and, simultaneously, to indigenize the discipline, making it more relevant to Africa and African students. He is the author of How Colonialism...
SEASON 2 EPISODE 7Tao Leigh GoffeFollow professor and DJ Tao Leigh Goffe on a journey to uncover her roots.Watch the episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EfeNgS3UBo&ab_channel=Hulu
"The response to the company’s rebrands and their financial commitments to foster racial equity has been mixed. Consumers across the political spectrum have questioned whether these image overhauls were necessary, arguing that characters like the Land O’Lakes maiden weren’t really stereotypes. On the other hand, scholars told Civil Eats that the...
"On Friday, a panel discussion featuring President Martha E. Pollack and notable Cornell alumni, including Kate Snow ’91, Anne H. Chow ’88, MEng ’89, MBA ’90, and Sharice Davids JD ’10, will address how women navigate leadership and define success. The conversation will be moderated by current Cornell students.Saturday’s Mosaic Forum will focus...
"Trauma is the psychological manifestation of the worst outcomes that a disaster can drum-up: It’s not only living through a crisis but reliving it. The idea of providing “relief,” a term politicians frequently plaster onto disaster recovery policy, must return to its literal meaning — restoring a feeling of assurance and internal peace. During...
"Segregated, unequal and underfunded schools, and the education received in them, constitute an underacknowledged form of structural or institutional racism that, over time, harms as surely as physical violence. The impacts are educational, but also psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical. We see it in the mental turmoil, self-doubt and...
"In African history as in Asian, oils are an abiding tradition, still honored by members of the Black American diaspora, for whom “oils are as central to grooming habits — not style, just basic grooming — as soap and water,” says Noliwe Rooks, 58, the director of American Studies at Cornell University. “Oiling regularly is part of being...
Congratulations Professor Tao Leigh Goffe ASWAD 2020 prize winner!Outstanding Article Tao Leigh Goffe, "Sugarwork: The Gastropoetics of Afro-Asia after the Plantation” (Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas)"The 2020 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prizeof the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African DiasporaFor Outstanding...