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Remembering The Weeping Time Slave Auction
Dear Baileyblog Readers, Today is the 162nd anniversary of the event called The Weeping time -the largest slave auction in American history. I hope you will take a moment to consider the 400+ enslaved people who were separated from their families on March 2 and...
Truth and Reconciliation Begins February 18 at Binghamton University
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! The newly created TRC Panel led by Professors Anne Bailey and Sharon Bryant of the Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity in partnership with President Harvey Stenger will be meeting several evenings in the spring semester 2021. This is...
Harriet Tubman and Truth and Reconciliation
Dear Baileyblog Readers, This past week, there was a renewed debate about Harriet Tubman and whether she will replace Andrew Jackson on the US $20 bill. The past administration had decided to delay this decision. President Biden's administration has put it back on...
Poem for Elijah Cummings by Brenda Cave James
This past week, we were all blown away by the poetry of Amanda Gorman at President Biden's inauguration. It was beautiful, it was searing, it was aspirational. I could not help but think of another bard and Baileyblog contributor, Brenda Cave James, and her poem...
An American Daughter of Immigrants
By guest contributor, Tiffany Perez As I stood at the empty center of La Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, Cuba, I reflected on what my life could have been had my grandparents not taken the biggest risk of their lives by leaving everything they knew for...
Celebrating a 30th anniversary
I realized this week that it has been three decades since my first publication. I am feeling particularly thankful to mark this anniversary. It has not always been easy but I am happy that I am still at it. For all these years and more, I have been committed to...
