Author: Christina
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Black Girlhood | An Introductory Reading List
“Not enough is known about the experience of black girls in our society.”
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Using StoryMaps to Celebrate A Black Church’s 196th Anniversary
196th anniversary. The pandemic disrupted the church’s original plan to celebrate a year prior. Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the church found a small window to safely gather and honor its nearly two-century history in Baltimore.
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bell hooks
all about love: bell hooks, 1952-2021 “No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”…No woman has ever written enough.” ― bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work There was something about her braids that made me smile. The youthfulness, the ultimate protective style, and the…
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Memories of Childhood and My Father | Geraldine Wilson
Memories of Childhood and My Father Hand-in-hand we walked two-and-a-half childhood steps to one Daddy stride my braids bowed pinafore plaid up curb down curb spring water days were fine fun smoothing diamond edge of his anger mean the wide-brimmed gray Stetson snapped over Black Bottom of his white Post Office pain. Growing up under…
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Chef Vincent A. Flowers & Pinemere Camp
A few weeks ago I received the following comment on Roots of a Hidden Legacy: Not a descendent of the Flowers family, but went to Pinemere camp in Stroudsburg, PA in the 1970’s for 8 years. Vincent Flowers was the head chef at camp, and was the most beloved person at Pinemere. I remember we…
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Protected: Researching & Writing Difficult Family Histories
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The Marriage License of Herbert Wilson and Hilda Flowers
A few weeks ago I came across the marriage license of Geraldine Wilson’s parents, Herbert Wilson and Hilda Flowers. I exhausted the Philadelphia archive, but apparently, I searched the wrong archive. I was in the wrong state. Although the couple held their wedding in Philadelphia and resided there, they crossed state lines for a license.…
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To My Nana, The First Archivist I Knew
For Frances Louise McLean Graham (October 12, 1946 – December 13, 2019) “My first introduction to this field began not in the classroom but in my Nana’s kitchen cutting collards and seasoning catfish. She carried lessons of Black history through food, gossip (her form of historical fact), and stories of her upbringing in rural North…
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In Search of a Black Woman’s Archives
It was my third time viewing Geraldine Wilson’s Papers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Crumbled in the bottom of box 3, belonging to no folder, I found this small piece of paper, a medical record. The diagnosis”breast ca.” Breast Cancer. I wonder what that day meant to Geraldine, what came to…
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#SayHerName: A Digital Memorial
Originally posted on Electric Marronage. Over my desk hangs an image of Korryn Gaines, a 23 year old Black woman, mother, daughter, and sister, shot and killed by Baltimore County Police in 2016. On Juneteenth at the Say Her Name: March for Black Women and Femme Survivors, organized by Baltimore activists Amorous Ebony and Brittany…
Diary of a Historian 