Day: February 25, 2022

  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts: A Love for Liberia StMU Research Scholars: Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary’s University St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas 2020-02-17 Antonio Holverstott Portrait of Joseph Jenkins Roberts taken by Augustus McCarthy circa 1840-1860 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1846, the governor of the African colony of Liberia,…

  • Arturo Schomburg’s experiences as an Afro Puerto Rican at the turn of the century influenced his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history.

  • What happens when the baby they buried comes back?

  • A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35

  • The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…