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"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland

Journal of Religion & Film

Historically, imprisoned Black male converts to Islam have been known for their narratives of redemption and struggles for religious freedom behind bars. While Islam possesses a strong visible presence throughout predominately Black areas of inner cities, it has become a natural feature of Black popular culture in mediums such as hip-hop, film, and literature. By the 1990s, the portrayal of Islamic conversions yielding Malcolm X-style transformations among young Black men, who formerly embodied self-destructiveness, were visible in films featuring Black male protagonists. The prison-based transformations typically involved highly influential Black Muslim leaders improving the social conditions of the inmate, the …

New Online Archive On Racially Segregated Libraries, Matthew R. Griffis

Publications and Other Resources

Matthew Griffis ([email protected]), Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, has conducted extensive research as the lead investigator on racial segregation in public libraries in the South. His research has been digitized is now available online. The archive, made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services is entitled “The Roots of Community: Segregated Carnegie Libraries as Spaces for Learning and Community-Making in Pre-Civil Rights America, 1900-65.” Griffis’s primary area of research is the library as place, including library buildings as social architecture, public libraries as …

Ua19/16/2 Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, game statistics and photos related to the WKU basketball team January to July 2017.

Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Well Being, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

2017 Talisman yearbook.

• Kaetzel, Kylee. Editor’s Note
• Upton, Jordan. His Hands
• Watkins, Abby. The Meal Plan – Recipes
• Eastham, Lillie. New Hieghts – Reed Mattison, Rock Climbing
• Robb, Hayley. A Life Transformed – Annabeth Welborn
• Robb, Hayley. 6:00 AM Bright & Early – Exercise
• Doyel, Rachael. Redifining Ability – Jacob Holt
• Upton, Jordan. Yom Kippur at Happy Hills Buddhist Temple
• Wegert, Sally. Inner Peace – Allison Adams, Yoga
• Mattingly, Evan. The Future’s in Your Hands – Bianca Williams, Psychics
• Frint, Hunter. Too Often Silenced – Unity Walk
• Doyel, Rachael. Changing Tides
• Wells, Spencer. Struggle & Rebirth – Trey Farlee, Musicians …

Right To Serve, Right To Lead: Lives And Legacies Of The Usct, Matthew D. Laroche, Hannah M. Christensen, Alexandria J. Andrioli, Jennifer A. Simone, Savannah G. Rose, Jonathan G. Danchik, Laurel J. Wilson, Jonathan E. Tracey, Danielle E. Jones, Ryan D. Bilger, Savannah A. Labbe

Civil War Institute Student Research

This is a catalog for an exhibit that follows the evolution of African-American participation in the Civil War, from slaves, to contrabands, to soldiers of the United States Colored Troops (USCT), as well as the lives of black veterans beyond the war, and their ultimate military and social legacy. Using a variety of period items, it creates a narrative that stretches from the Antebellum Period to the current day. In doing so, the exhibit shows how black sacrifice on the battlefield redefined the war's purpose throughout the divided nation, how Jim Crowe suppressed the memory of black participation after Reconstruction, …

Ua19/16/2 Womens' Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics related to WKU women's basketball team from January to July 2017.

The Mask Strikes Back: Blackness As Aporia In Moby-Dick And Benito Cereno, Jerome D. Clarke

Student Publications

What is the American Gothic a reaction to? Whereas other thinkers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne locates the building blocks of the American Gothic in Puritan Christianity or Amerindian Genocide, I argue that Melville posits the genesis of chattel slavery and the construction of racial category as the repressed events that haunt the Americas and return uninvited. By using the Gothic motif of the living corpse, the famed writer of Moby-Dick addresses the social bereavement which Blackness comes to represent in the Americas. By looking for truth on the skin and flesh, the main characters of Moby-Dick and “Benito Cereno” represent …

Kendrick Lamar And Hip-Hop As A Medium For Social Change, Diego A. Rocha

Student Publications

This paper provides a context and then analysis of Kendrick Lamar's albums as they relate to advocating and affecting social change. The purpose is to show through example how hip-hop (and music in general) can act as an avenue towards creating positive change for oppressed peoples.

An Examination Of African American Male Students’ Perceptions Of Academic Success And Their Experiences At The Community College, Shashuna Jenean Gray

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

The focus of this research is the perceptions of academic success held by African American male students attending a community college. Community colleges often serve as the gateway for unprepared, at-risk students. However, this group of students frequently fails to persist and matriculate even after six years of attendance. Understanding the perceptions of academic success within two defined groups of students, pre-enrollment and probationary, would allow community college leaders to efficiently allocate resources to ensure high levels of engagement within the college classroom.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 43, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Austin, Emma. University Signs Letter of Intent with Aramark
• Alvey, Rebekah. Visiting Scholar Educates Students on Sex Trafficking – Jessica Pliley
• Williams, Jamie. Student Government Association Considers New Legislation in Final Weeks of Semester
• Deletter, Emily. Dean of Libraries Retires After 41 Years of Employment – Connie Foster
• Kast, Monica. Advertising & Public Relations Discussion Pulled from Board of Regents
• Vogler, Emily. Editorial Cartoon re: Inclement Weather
• Shake-it Up – Hill Nutrition
• Hormell, David. Gary Ransdell Makes Strides to Muddy Records Fight
• Walker, Silas. Confident …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Austin, Emma. Attorney General Intervenes In College Heights Herald Lawsuit – Andy Beshear
• Williams, Jamie. Patched: Solution to Budget Shortfall Shores Up for Another Year
• Bradley, Erian. Students Adapt to Construction of Residence Halls
• Williams, Jamie. New Legislation Affects Students’ Free Speech
• Wegert, Sally. Featured Watercolor Artist to Visit, Teach Class – Steve Cavallo
• Brockman, Kacie. Professors Discuss Facts, Fake News – Guy Jordan, Mac McKerral
• Editorial Cartoon re: Higher Education Budget
• Money Model: Performance-based Funding Would Harm WKU
• Burgess, Kelly. Making Your Own, Healthy …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Williams, Jamie. Student Government Association Supports Military Students
• Williams, Jamie. Graduating Student Government Association President Reflects on Two Terms – Jay Richey
• Deletter, Emily. Confucius Institute Displays Work by Distinguished Artists
• Deletter, Emily. Alumni Association Appoints New Board of Directors
• Kast, Monica. Professor Presents on Human Rights Attitudes – Sam McFarland
• Vogler, Emily. Editorial Cartoon re: Corgis
• Ronkainen, Millie. Learning to Appreciate the Silence Around Me
• Johnson, Jack. Logan & Get Out Offer Unique Theater Experiences – Movies
• Jones, Zach. Mental Math Won’t Do, Learn …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 40, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• McCarthy, Casey. Registration Software Launches on TopNet
• Mattingly, Evan. Far & Wide – Spring Break
• Puckett, Dalton. Far & Wide – Spring Break
• Alvey, Rebekah. Marchers United to Honor International Women’s Day – Protests
• Kast, Monica. Energy Bill Pulled from Committee Agenda
• Chattopadhyay, Srijita. International Students Share Visa Restriction Issues
• Bradley, Erian. Housing & Residence Life Seeks New Director
• Editorial Cartoon re: Truth & Open Records
• Henderson, Andrew. The Sun Shines Bright on My Old Kentucky Public Agency – Sunshine Week, Open Records
• Murrer, Erick. …

2017 Mayoral And City Council Election, Preston Love Jr.

Black Studies Faculty Publications

In 2008 North Omaha 62% of the registered voters, actually voted, that % is called voter turnout. In 2012 the turnout was 55%. In 2016, in spite of repeated warning from this column and elsewhere that unless we voted, candidate Trump could win and that could be disastrous to urban communities like north Omaha. Well we voted at a dismal 47% and candidate Trump has become the President of the USA. Now in less than 60 days since becoming President, there have been cuts in federal programs that our community needs, dumb immigration policies, foreign policies that could bring us …

Ua19/16/1 2016-17 Conference Usa Tournament Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

2016-17 Lady Topper Basketball Conference USA tournament guide.

Content Matters--Teaching "The Case For Reparations," 9-12, Tamara Jaffe-Notier, Carol Friedman

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

We offer specific materials and plans for teaching the structure and content of Ta-Nehisi Coates' persuasive essay, "The Case for Reparations," and building trustworthy relationships with and among students. By participating in this interactive session, you will practice teaching five specific high school appropriate lessons addressing requisite knowledge and skills for studying this essay, from real estate redlining to building academic vocabulary for rhetorical analysis.

Experience And Enjoy Therapeutic West African Drumming, Danny S. Daniels

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation is designed to introduce the benefits of a therapeutic West African drumming program to educators and mental health professionals. Participants will engage in a basic drumming class where they will experience the academic and socio-emotional benefits of drumming while practicing an African rhythm. How to relate American School Counselor Association (ASCA) standards as well as Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) and Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) will be explained and demonstrated by the presentation facilitators.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 39, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Dick, Jacob. Football Players Involved in Fight at Pi Kappa Alpha House
• Austin, Emma. University Faces Shortfall – Budget
• Mattingly, Evan. Up ‘Til Dawn – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Alvey, Rebekah. Therapeutic Garden Relieves Stress, Brings Bounty – Hope Harbor
• Williams, Jamie. International Students Volunteer to Help Refugees in Kentucky – Student Government Association
• Vogler, Emily. Editorial Cartoon re: Day After Election
• Hormell, David. WKU Puts Students on Back Burner
• Voting Viewpoints: Student Government Association Should Move Up Spring Elections
• Henderson, Andrew. Preparing to …

Rose’S Gift: Slavery, Kinship, And The Fabric Of Memory, Mark J. Auslander

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

One of the most evocative objects in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is an embroidered cloth bag that has come to be known as “Ashley’s Sack”. Stitch-work on the bag, signed “Ruth Middleton”, recounts the bag’s painful history, as a gift presented by an enslaved woman, Rose, to her daughter Ashley, when Ashley was sold at age nine in South Carolina. This paper explores ‘Ashley’s sack’ as an object of history, memory, ritual action, and aesthetic creativity.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 38, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Williams, Jamie. Student Government Association Votes to Fund Sustainable Projects
• Kast, Monica. Rights to Know – Immigration
• Alvey, Rebekah. Event Connects Students with Career Professionals – Intercultural Student Engagement Center, Black Leaders Advocating for Community
• Schweikart, Lydia. Dark Parody, Dog Sees God Premieres on Campus – Theatre & Dance
• DeLetter, Emily. Staff Honored for Community Leadership Roles – Martha Sales, Ryan Dearbone, Aurelia Spaulding
• Vogler, Emily. Editorial re: We Never Talk
• Burgess, Kelly. Eating Greens is the Nutritional Pot of Gold
• Hatchett, Gina. Counting Down …

On My Grind: Freestyle Rap Practices In Experimental Creative Writing And Composition Pedagogy, Evan Nave

Theses and Dissertations

My work is always necessarily two-headed. Double-voiced. Call-and-response at once. Paranoid self-talk as dichotomous monologue to move the crowd. Part of this has to do with the deep cuts and scratches in my mind. Recorded and remixed across DNA double helixes. Structurally split. Generationally divided. A style and family history built on breaking down.

Evidence of how ill I am.

And then there’s the matter of skin. The material concerns of cultural cross-fertilization. Itching to plant seeds where the grass is always greener. Color collaborations and appropriations. Writing white/out with black art ink. Distinctions dangerously hidden behind backbeats or shamelessly …

Capturing Their Stories: Collecting Oral Histories From Users Of Segregated Libraries In The South (Presentation For The Southern History Of Education Society Annual Meeting, March 2017), Matthew R. Griffis

Publications and Other Resources

From the conference program: "This presentation reviews the progress of a federally-funded, 3-year historical study that explores how segregated Carnegie libraries were used as places of community-making, interaction, and learning for African Americans in the days of Jim Crow. Known then as “Carnegie colored libraries,” these public libraries opened in eight southern states between 1900 and 1925 and were an extension of the well-known library development program funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Some operated for as many as six decades until, by the 1970s, most had closed or were integrated into the library systems of their larger …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 37, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Dick, Jacob. WKU Sues College Heights Herald Over Access to Records – Title IX
• Kast, Monica. WKU Tied Among Grant Winners – Fulbright Awards
• Miller, Callie. City Makes Plans to Improve Biker & Pedestrian Facilities
• Williams, Tyger. Welcome Notes Greet Incoming Refugees
• Chavis, Danielle. Local Restaurants Provide Sanctuary for Workers – Immigrants
• Alvey, Rebekah. Faculty Aims to Prevent Flu Epidemic Through Education
• Vogler, Emily. Editorial Cartoon re: Obstruction
• Faltering Fairness: City Officials Fail to Meet the Low Bar of Open Discussion
• Harsh, Spencer. In Midst …

Oral History With Houston A. Baker, Matthew R. Griffis

Oral History Archive

Born in March of 1943, Houston Alfred Baker Jr. grew up in segregated Louisville. His mother was a schoolteacher; his father served as chief administrator of the city’s African-American hospital, the Red Cross Hospital, and had earned a master’s degree in hospital administration from Northwestern University on a Rockefeller fellowship. When Baker was a child, his family lived on Virginia Avenue, where Baker attended Virginia Avenue Elementary School. After his family moved to Broadway Street, Baker attended Western Elementary, later Western Junior High School, and then Male High School before leaving for Howard University in 1961. The family attended Grace …

African-American Children & Families Conference, February 24, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

African-American Children & Families Conference Programs

The program for the annual Conference on African-American Children and Families held at the University of Northern Iowa.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 36, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Austin, Emma. Gary Ransdell Declines Sanctuary Status – Immigration, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
• Ziesig, Kathryn. City Commission Tables Fairness Ordinance
• Alvey, Rebekah. Event Empowers Students Through Political Education – Black History Month
• Williams, Jamie. Video Contest Aims to Raise Sexual Assault Awareness – Voice of Justice
• Williams, Jamie. Student Government Association Offers New Scholarships for Marginalized Groups
• Keltner, Bryson. School of Nursing Changes Program Degrees
• McCarthy, Casey. Dual Credit Enrollment Continues to Rise
• Vogler, Emily. Editorial Cartoon re: Big Red
• Johnson, Kalyn. Looking …

Institute Of African-American Children & Families Pre-Conference, February 23, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

African-American Children & Families Conference Programs

The program for the annual Conference on African-American Children and Families held at the University of Northern Iowa.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 35, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Dick, Jacob. Crafting Tim Caboni
• Kast, Monica. University Senate Endorses Sanctuary Resolution – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, Immigration
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: Protecting Students
• Differing Doctrines: College Heights Herald, WKU Agree on Principle Not on Actions – Title IX
• Ronkainen, Millie. Trusting God, Rediscovering My Worth
• Mohr, Olivia. Annual Science Fiction Convention to Take Place This Week - Concave
• Critchelow, Andrew. Learning to Fight Back – Martial Arts
• Alvey, Rebekah & Andrew Critchelow. Speaker Tackles Issues of Race with Poetry – Clint …

Newroom: Do Lord Remember Me: Black Church In Ri 02-21-2017, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Bowling Green City Commissioner Sues WKU – Sue Parrigin
• Williams, Jamie. Students Rally for Higher Education
• Austin, Emma. State Legislation Moves Through General Assembly
• Alvey, Rebekah. Art Project Turns Attention to Construction Projects – Michael Wheatley
• Kast, Monica. Students Campaign for Women’s Education – Americans for Informed Democracy
• Brockman, Kacie. Student Group Traveling to Capitol for Refugee, Immigration Day – No Lost Generation
• Austin, Emma. College Awaits Approval of New Specialist Degree
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: Gary Ransdell, Semester at Sea
• Johnson, Kalyn. Don’t …