Day: July 9, 2011

  • FBI investigating racist threat in Polk County Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga, Tennessee Sunday, 2011-06-26 Beth Burger Ducktown, Tenn.—More than a week after part of a cinderblock was thrown through a trailer window with a threatening racist message attached, an interracial Polk County couple continue to have sleepless nights. “I just want to get out…

  • Fifteenth Union: A Melungeon Gathering Melungeon Heritage Association Carolina Connections: Roots and Branches of Mixed Ancestry Communities Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, North Carolina 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-16 MHA is delighted to announce that this year our annual Union will be celebrated at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, July 14-16, 2011. This will be our first…

  • Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.

  • Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher Foundation Vanderbilt University Law School 2011-07-06 Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has been awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation.   Professor Sharfstein’s new book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, examines the…