Day: September 1, 2021

  • A rare gathering of Black dancers from different companies meet to discuss a new production on Little Island, curated by Misty Copeland and Robert Garland.

  • Thomas Collins, Lost Melungeon Roots Alicia M. Prater, Ph.D. 2020-09-03 The Goins’, a Melungeon family in Graysville, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Source Thomas Collins was born about 1785, presumably in Ashe, North Carolina. He was a Melungeon and noted as “Free Colored Person” (FCP) on the 1820 and 1830 U.S. censuses. Thomas married Nancy Williams,…

  • What The New Census Data Shows About Race Depends On How You Look At It National Public Radio 2021-08-13 Connie Hanzhang Jin Ruth Talbot Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Over the past decade, the United States continued to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, according to the results of last year’s national head count…