HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Dear Friend:

 

On Sunday, August 25, at 4pm in Cramton Auditorium, the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) will initiate a year-long celebration of its Centennial Anniversary with the premiere of an insightful and moving documentary film on the Civil Rights struggle in Birmingham, Alabama, entitled 1963--The Year that Changed America.

 

1963 presents a gripping, insider's view of the tumultuous events leading up to the March on Washington. It reveals the powerful impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership and example, and the resolute determination of a people destined to turn back the tides of discrimination and inequality. It provides the perfect context for understanding the political and social dimensions of the challenges that laid the foundation for the passage of the Civil and Voting Rights acts of 1964 and 1965. 

 

Ambassador Young will be in attendance to introduce the film and to dialogue with the audience afterwards. Howard University Library System and MSRC Director Howard Dodson will host and moderate the discussion.

 

Admission is free, but seating will be very limited as this event is a mandatory activity for all incoming Howard University freshmen. You must RSVP to reserve a seat by clicking on the following link: http://libguides.howard.edu/MSRC-Centennial-Event-8-25-13.

 

We look forward to sharing this important experience with you on Sunday, August 25th. RSVP NOW!

 

 

Kamili Anderson

D. Kamili Anderson

Public Affairs & Communications Specialist

Howard University Library System-HULS

Howard University

Washington, DC 20059

Dear Ethelbert Miller, UNC Press announces the publication of William Ferris's new book, The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists. Professor Ferris has suggested that we contact you personally to let you know of its release. To receive 20% off this title, visit our website and enter 01ENEW at checkout. For more information on exam copies and how to purchase, see below.

The Storied South Voices of Writers and Artists William Ferris   The creative heart of the South    "Ferris presents us with artists' testimonies on their own histories, their work, and their theories about what it means to live in the South. These compelling stories help us to ask fresh and meaningful questions about the meaning of art, race, region, and history. They surprise us, make us laugh, and open their work to us anew."--Henry Louis Gates Jr.     The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South.      To see a full description, read a sample, or order, please visit the book's page. And listen to Professor Ferris's interview with NPR's Weekend Edition here.  Includes a CD of original interviews and a DVD of original film 288 pp., 46 halftones 978-1-4696-0754-2 | $35.00 cloth 20% discount price: $28.00 (use 01ENEW)

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Black Men and America: The Rebuilding of Our Nation

August 26, 2013, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Busboys & Poets
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC

Moving beyond stereotypes, victimization, exploitation and news headlines, how will black men remake America? IPS Board Chair, E. Ethelbert Miller will moderate a two hour discussion with black men talking about the problems they face and the obstacles they must overcome. A look to the future and how black men will help shape a new narrative for our nation. The program will link the personal and the political. What might the new blueprints for living well look like? Are the stories of these young black men an indication that tomorrow is a bright shining morning star?

Guests:

• Tope Folarin is the recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Policy Studies and Callaloo, and he serves on the board of the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Tope was educated at Morehouse College, and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Master's degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. His short story, 'Miracle,' won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing.
• Aaron Jenkins is the program director for Operation Understanding DC. A graduate of Williams College. He also serves on the board of the Abramson Scholarship Foundation.
• Thomas Woods a graduate of Howard University and now attending Harvard Law School.

COATES IN PARIS

TA NEHISI COATES

 http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/how-i-met-your-mother/278724/

TALK TODAY

I will be heading down to the Institute of International Education (IIE) to give a talk on "Promoting Social Change through the Arts." I will be speaking to a group of international visitors from all around the world, who are participating in the International Visitor Leadership Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

WHEN BASEBALL WAS FUN AND LAUGHTER...
http://www.roopstigo.com/reel/morganna-a-kissing-bandits-mystery/

Alice in Wonderland?

ALICE WALKER

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/alice-walker-uninvited-university-of-michigan-color-purple_n_3769084.html

Dr. Assya Pascalev

One of the good things about working at Howard University are the surprises you can encounter just walking across campus. On my way home today I ran into Dr. Assya Pascalev, an Associate Professor of Philosophy. Although she had been working at the university for eight years we had never met. Dr. Pascalev has been spending much of her time in the medical school teaching ethics. I hope to learn more about her work this year.

Dr. Assya Pascalev photo by Ethelbert

THE E MAG

Treve de blues
  -Leon Damas

Compassion is my art
  - Grace A. Ali

God makes stars. It's up to producers to find them
  - Samuel Goldwyn


MY GUEST TODAY IS YOLONDA Y. WILSON, PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

Yolonda Y. Wilson photo by Ethelbert

Q. What classes will you be teaching at Howard this fall?

 Intro to Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy.


Q.    What ideas will you be discussing in your class on feminism?  What texts have you selected?


 In my feminist philosophy course, I will focus on the theme of citizenship and society.  I will begin with early social contract theory, and hopefully the students will get a sense of the conversations that educated, propertied white men were having with one another at the beginning of the modern period that formed the foundation of the society that we have today.  It is through that lens that we will come to understand gendered, racialized, and sexualized critiques of modernity.  We'll use case law and at least one novel.


Q.  How might your classes prepare a young African American student for today's world?

I focus on critical thinking in my classes.  Critical thinking is useful in the abstract, but having sharp critical insight is important for navigating the world.


Q. Your office is located in Founders Library. Will you be using the library resources during the school year?

I love that my office is in the library.  It is such a glorious old building -- even though it is in desperate need of TLC.  I'll definitely be using the library resources.  I should be doing that even if my office weren't in the library, right?  After all, I'm a scholar.

Q.  Are you working on any articles or books for publication?
 
I have a chapter coming out in a feminist philosophy anthology, and I am revising a bioethics article on the use of stigma in public health campaigns.

ICHIRO WATCH

Ichiro needs 3 hits to reach 4000.

THE DECLINE OF EGYPT INTO SADNESS...

Islamists Killed While in Custody, Egypt Confirms

By ROD NORDLAND

The deaths were the fourth mass killing of civilians since the military took control on July 3, but the first time those killed were in government custody at the time.

WHEN FREEDOM COMES

Nat Turner knocking on my door.
I'm just a House Negro with a spoon.

  - E. Ethelbert Miller

Miriam

So I will see you there...
We will dance in the aisle to the music in our heads.
People will throw flowers at our feet.
Outside the dogs will bark and the birds will laugh.
The sun will make love to the trees.

 - E. Ethelbert Miller

Morning Monday meeting with Andy (Shallal). Our regular time for laughter and politics...
Guess who is coming to lunch today? 

Will meet with media folks from Finland this afternoon and discuss the upcoming March on Washington.

I pulled a collection of short stories by Reginald McKnight from the shelf. Will snack on a few today.

Sports

Ichiro needs about 4 more hits to reach 4000.

The Nats continue to struggle - a key reason might be the declining batting average of Bryce Harper.
This team is going to struggle the rest of the season trying to reach .500.
So sad...
Next  year they will have to adjust to a new manager. They will need to find 2-3 decent pinch hitters.
Cut down on errors.
Steal more bases.
Pitchers need to learn how to hold runners on base.

Oh, and finally give Ethelbert his press pass so he can follow the team.

IMPORTANT!  MUST READING FOR ANYONE TEACHING AT A UNIVERSITY TODAY.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18120-massive-open-online-courses-and-beyond-the-revolution-to-come 

ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR YOUR ROOTS?

A full-day scholarly symposium - The African Diaspora: Integrating Culture, Genomics and History -  will be held on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at the  Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.  This symposium has been organized in partnership between the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Museum of Natural History.

This symposium brings together health care professionals, geneticists, anthropologists, historians, researchers, artists, museum curators and directors, genetic testing industry representatives, among others to discuss what we can learn about the interplay between culture, genomics and history as it relates to the African Diaspora and identity.  An evening public event, Searching for Your Roots, follows.

The symposium and evening program are free; however, online registration is required: www.strategicresults.com/africandiaspora

Poetry News from giovanni singleton

http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_23827246/marin-poet-experiments-avant-garde-book-children

THERE IS BASEBALL AND THEN THERE IS ICHIRO

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323455104579012541828784498.html

My Lebanon, My Love

             ...war surrounds us but I'm taking the day off.

                            - Hind Shoufani


Beautiful Beirut,
please tell me someone overslept
and a bomb did not explode today.

Tell me the smoke
is not my lover's perfume.

Let us sit in cafes
with tea, coffee and conversations.

I want to say hello-
to a woman's lips.

Is that my comma near her legs?
My period near her breasts?

Did you know beauty is now
a refugee?

Desire said I would never
see home again.

Hind - is this true?

Does war now surround
our hearts
or is it simply the loneliness
that sleeps with separation?

I miss you.
I miss love and peace.


  - E. Ethelbert Miller