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Bookmark or Share- Keeping Banned Books on the Shelves | Tufts NowAllison Lee, J92, read Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in a Tufts class taught by the late Gerald Gill, a history professor who focused on the experiences of Black Americans. “It opened up an entire world to me that I would not have known from my own lived experience,” Lee says.
- Summer Book Recommendations 2023 - Tufts NowAmerican Midnight offers a gripping look into a little-remembered era of a century ago, when the U.S. was roiled by bitter political polarization; anti-immigrant fervor; violence against Black Americans; and Constitutional crises. Oh, and a pandemic.
- Writing Books for Young Readers that Celebrate Famous Black AmericansHer reading primers and children’s books focus on the positive impact of famous Black Americans—the type of stories she wishes she’d had as a child. Making good on her degree in English, Shasta has authored four biographies so far, with more to come.
- The Black Diplomats Who Broke the Color Barrier | Tufts NowRevealing “The Very Best of America” Calzolai-Stewart first became interested in the idea of highlighting Black trailblazers in the Foreign Service when her husband read the book, Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-69 by Michael Krenn, whom she interviewed for the documentary.But she wanted to translate those stories to a visual medium, to better show the ...
- Recovering Family History for Millions of African AmericansTufts historian Kendra Field is guiding a team of genealogists and researchers on the 10 Million Names project, creating a public database of all enslaved people of African descent in the U.S. from the 1500s to 1865
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