African American Studies at Frostburg State University

10/17/2021

BBC News - Fespaco: Pomp and colour as Africa’s biggest film festival starts

The Fespaco festival draws film fans from across the world to Burkina Faso.

10/03/2021

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/chatham-coloured-allstars-baseballgame-1.6195999

Thirteen years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in the MLB, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first baseball team with Black players to compete in a championship in Ontario. Now, descendants of the players are taking to the field in their honour.

02/20/2021

https://www.fws.gov/southeast/articles/unsung-heroes-of-american-conservation/

St. Charles, Arkansas – Naomi Mitchell is the clerk and treasurer for this small White River town (pop. 230) renowned for duck hunting. She also, for a fee, plucks ducks clean. And, in her spare time, she runs the local museum, a folksy repository of many things St. Charles. Tucked into a back cor...

11/19/2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/11/why-kamala-harris-chose-howard-university-what-she-did-weekends-there/

She had gone to majority-White schools earlier in her life.

09/19/2020

The Appalachian Festival is going on right now virtually. I believe this is the 13th year. The keynote address tonight, Saturday, 7 pm, is on African Americans in Appalachia!

https://www.frostburg.edu/annual-events/afestival/_files/Friday-symposium.pdf

09/11/2020

James Weldon Johnson wrote one of my favorite books, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

Bob Moore

Here’s what makes the Black National Anthem so iconic

06/02/2020

In South Fulton, Georgia, a municipal court is making history as the only one in the United States run entirely by African-American women.

08/06/2019

Toni Morrison, author of seminal works of literature on the black experience such as "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "Sula" and the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize, has died, her publisher Knopf confirmed to CNN.

07/27/2019

Andrew Wyeth's, "James Loper"

06/30/2019

A report from an education advocacy group found the average white school district got $13,908 for every student, compared to $11,682 per student in districts that mostly serve people of color.

06/14/2019

Father Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897, lived a life of "heroic virtue," the Vatican announced. The next steps to sainthood would be beatification, followed by canonization.

03/30/2019

https://www-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnn.com/style/amp/french-art-renamed-black-models-intl-scli/index.html?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D =https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fstyle%2Farticle%2Ffrench-art-renamed-black-models-intl-scli%2Findex.html

The Musée d'Orsay in Paris has launched a landmark exhibition renaming classical masterpieces after their black subjects, casting new light on the role of people of color in art.