Tag: Racism
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“[and when I saw] the Smoky Mountains . . . I thought of heaven.” A Black College Student’s Trip South
Oh, the joys of a summer road trip! In 1893, William Frank Fonvielle, a student at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, waved goodbye to his friends who worked with him on the college newspaper. At the tail end of the giddy post-slavery years when young men and women like William with no first hand…
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Cooking Old School
This weekend why don’t you have your help fire up the stove and make some flannel cakes? Two great links to food history and yummy recipes: The Historic Foodie Hearth and Home: 19th Century Cooking
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On New Year’s Day: A Reverie With Henry O. Tanner
Henry O Tanner, the son of a slave transcended race through his art and through his Christianity. Back then educated people didn’t just assume that Christians were reactionary bigots (of course some did). Christian themed art wasn’t seen as offensive but part of the long and spectacular tradition of Western civilization. Tanner was the first…
Author Adrienne Morris 