Berea College only admits high-performing, low-income students; it's completely free and requires students to work for the school. The formula seems to work: It has a $1.2bn endowment and is among the top 50 liberal-arts colleges in the US #SchemeandScandal#CollegeAdmissions
This morning, we took the students on our annual trip to see Memphis Minnie’s gravesite in Walls, MS. We discussed blues, place, environment, history, labor, and so forth. Good, good stuff indeed.
I’m super excited that this amazing project is now out!
I’ve got an essay and some liner notes in it; all of which are about Mr. Furry Lewis.
https://t.co/Ou0Zki8rEA
Today in class, we are getting funked up. We got Sly and Larry, George and Bootsy, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, and the “Holy Ghost” by Memphis’s own The Bar-Kays.
Colonization of Appalachia started long before the coal companies, long before industrial timber companies, long before absentee landowners profited over & above tenant settlers.
To remember Appalachian history means remembering our WHOLE history.
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay.
1 of my summer research students made a fantastic podcast mini-series on the importance of community on Memphis music, past + present.
It features a great interview with THE Southern hip hop scholar, Dr. Regina Bradley! (I know, right?!)
Here’s a link!
https://t.co/xuMYTmFvLA
I don't know what to tell you guys. We have to expand the Court. If we don't expand the Court, no liberal policy will be allowed to exist for the rest of our lives. That's why Republicans stole the court, that's why rich people pay for justices.
Govern yourselves accordingly.
Today’s adventures of the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies involved a tour of Stax and incredible smoked TURKEY RIBS at @MemArts4Change’s Art House Cafe. #rirs2023
Student projects for this year’s Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies include an analysis of the relationship between music and community in Memphis and Nashville, a study on urban gardens, ethnographies of Black women quilters, and a paper on Memphis drag. School=fun. #RIRS2023
Civil Rights Scholars:
What are your go to online oral history repositories?
(Please retweet widely. Would love to get maximum coverage for the folks teaching this stuff.)