Year in Review: Miracles Do Happen
The end of year brings with it a lot of reflection. Thanksgiving has passed but I am still feeling very thankful. This was a year that was promised but yet elusive for such a long time. The long journey to the publication of my book, The Weeping Time: Memory and...Voting rights still need to be protected
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 If you have seen the movie Selma, you will be reminded that the securing of voting rights for African Americans is still something relatively new. Though Congress passed the 15th Amendment as long ago as 1870...
Words Matter and a Film Review
Charleston. Charlottesville. Pittsburgh. NO! This cannot be happening again. We can not be silent. We are grieving but we will not be silent. On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a twenty one year old white supremacist murdered nine African Americans who were attending...
America: a place of refuge?
Today for my class on Holocaust history, we watched the film, Woman in Gold. The film is about an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Maria Altmann, who discovered late in life that a famous painting of her aunt was stolen by the Nazis. With the help of a young Jewish...
Book Award and Jamaicans Advocate for Windrush Generation
Alford Gardner, SS Windrush passenger Full Professor and Book award This month marks the first month of my promotion to full professor. I have to confess that when I started on this journey I did not think all these years later I would still be in academia or that...
Anne C. Bailey and company write about race, slavery, refugees, diasporas, African American, Caribbean and African studies, human rights, history, and memory. We publish every weekend.
Find Anne C. Bailey's non-fiction book : The Weeping Time:
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History (Beacon Press)
