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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

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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 …

Predictors Of Hepatitis C Testing Intention Among African American Baby Boomers, Mohamed Rashrash, Mary Maneno, Anthony Wutoh, Earl Ettienne, Monica Daftary

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Baby Boomers (BBs) are responsible for three-quarters of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in the United States; however, HCV testing is distinctly underused by them. A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence of HCV testing and to evaluate predictors of HCV testing intention among African– American BBs. The study was guided by the Health Belief Model and theory of reasoned action frameworks. Of the 137 participants included in the study, 44.8% had at least a college education; 13.9% received prior to 1992 blood transfusion. Findings related to HCV testing showed that 32.1% of the participants intended to test …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 33, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Miller, Callie. New Strategy Targets International Enrollment
• Austin, Emma. Kentuckians Record Views on America – Kentucky Museum, Protests
• Ziesig, Kathryn. Pulitzer Prize Winner to Visit Campus – Renee Byer
• Mohr, Olivia. Professional Recording Studio Offers Services for All Artists – Studio 17, Clay Aydt
• Hatchett, Gina. Following the Golden Rule in Times of Tumult
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: Gary Ransdell’s Valentine’s Day
• Huff, Taylor. Betsy Devos: Is She Fit to Be Queen of Education?
• Johnson, Tommy. Baptist Campus Ministry: Our Approach to International Students …

Ladies And Gentlemen Start Your Engines: 2017 Election Is Now, Preston Love Jr.

Black Studies Faculty Publications

North Omaha, once again I am disappointed in our ability to see how important our vote is. We like other black communities around the country did not vote in numbers high enough to ward off the Trump vote and as a result we got Trump as the President of the US. For the last weeks we are now seeing the effects of our lack of recognition of the importance of our National and State elections. It should be noted that part of the blame for a reduced black voter turnout is the continued and increased voter suppression efforts by Republicans …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 32, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Gary Ransdell Accepts New Presidency Position – Semester at Sea
• Williams, Jamie. Student Government Association Cuts Safe Ride for Thursdays
• Austin, Emma. Citizens Protest Attorney General Nomination – Jeff Sessions
• Chattopadhyay, Srijita. Downtown Post Office Looking for Place to Relocate
• Bradley, Erian. Organization Event to Educate, Recruit Members – Black Leadership & Academic Conference
• Alvey, Rebekah. Letter Writing Events Show Support for International Students – 2K Letters KY
• Kast, Monica. Donation from Fruit of the Loom Creates Scholarship Fund
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: Parking …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 31, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Ares, Nicole. WKU to Sue Over Open Records Decision
• Austin, Emma. Tuition Deficits may lead to University Budget Policy Change
• Ziesig, Kathryn. Unity is Love – Protests, Immigration
• McCarthy, Casey. eSports Team Hosts First Live Event, Plans to Keep Growing
• Williams, Jamie. Event Connects International & American Students – International Student Diplomats
• Wegert, Sally. Women’s Campus Ministry to Open Chapter at WKU – Delight Ministries
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: Bowling Green Massacre
• Ronkainen, Millie. Balancing the Pressure to be Well-rounded
• Burgess, Kelly. Bless Your …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 30, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Williams, Jamie. 10 Members Appointed to Student Government Association
• Keltner, Bryson. WKU Students Graduate with More Loan Debt
• Alvey, Rebekah. WKU Police Officer Recognized for Making DUI Arrests – Dustin Lee
• Williams, Jamie. Professor Appointed to Human Rights Task Force – Sam McFarland
• McCarthy, Casey. Monthly Group Discusses Gender Identity – Science Café
• Restricting Records: Title IX Records
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: Open Records Access
• Jones, Shawn. Kentuckians Need Easier Access to Quit Smoking
• Cox, Ebony. Stepping Up – Homecoming Step Show
• Chavis, Danielle. …

Toward A Reoriented Radicalism: Black Marxism And Orientalism, Alexandros Orphanides

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The 21st century has witnessed the unquestioned supremacy of late capitalism. It holds coercive power over nation states; it generates increased inequality within countries and around the globe. It can, today, exploit everywhere at once. The poorest countries in the world reside in the Global South. Of the twenty poorest countries in the world, seventeen are in Africa; the rest are elsewhere in the Global South. Of the hundred poorest countries in world, over 95 percent are in the Global South. In the United States, Blacks, Latinos, and Indigenous people have poverty rates that greatly exceed the national average. Poverty …

Black Heritage Stamp Series: Dorothy Height, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Dorothy Height Commemorative stamp – Black Heritage Series, sheet of 20 stamps. First issued February 1, 2017, 40th in a series.

A Canada In The South: Marronage In Antebellum American Literature, Sean Gerrity

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation considers maroons—enslaved people who fled from slavery and self-exiled to places like swamps and forests—in the textual and historical worlds of the pre-Civil War United States. I examine a counter-archive of US literature that imagines marronage as offering alternate spaces of freedom, refuge, and autonomy outside the unidirectional South-to-North geographical trajectory of the Underground Railroad, which has often framed the story of freedom and unfreedom for African Americans in pre-1865 US literary and cultural studies. Broadly, I argue that through maroons we can locate alternate spaces of fugitive freedom within slaveholding territory, thereby complicating fixed notions of the …

“The Monster They've Engendered In Me”: Gothic Strategies In African American And Latina/O Prison Literature, 1945-2000, Jason Baumann

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Recent scholarship on American prison literature, such as Caleb Smith’s pivotal study The Prison in the American Imagination, has uncovered the power that the terrifying realities of the modern prison have had as an inspiration for the development of Gothic literature, as well as the ways that prison writers have in turn drawn upon these Gothic images. However, these scholars have considered prison writers as passively trapped by Gothic discourses that ultimately objectify them as monsters. In contrast, I will argue that African American and Latina/o prison writers in the post-war period have consciously transformed these Gothic themes in …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 29, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Board of Regents Name WKU’s 10^th President – Timothy Caboni
• Ares, Nicole. Extreme Vetting – Elnaz Jalali, International Students
• Williams, Jamie. Board Approves President, Coach Contract – Timothy Caboni, Mike Sanford
• Austin, Emma. Attorney General Rules WKU Violates Open Records Law
• Williams, Tyger. WKU Celebrates Chinese New Year: Year of Rooster
• Editorial Cartoon re: Immigration, Big Red as Statue of Liberty
• Henderson, Andrew. Attacks on Refugee Rights Attack Universal Human Rights
• Hormell, David. A Soliloquy for the Forgotten People – Immigration
• Mattingly, Evan. The …

Ideology, Race, And The Death Penalty: "Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics" In Advocacy Research, Anthony Walsh, Virginia Hatch

Journal of Ideology

We use the literature on race in death penalty to illustrate the hold that ideology has on researchers and journalists alike when a social issue is charged with emotional content. We note particularly how statistical evidence become misinterpreted in ways that support a particular ideology, either because of innumeracy or because—subconsciously or otherwise—one’s ideology precludes a critical analysis. We note that because white defendants are now proportionately more likely to receive the death penalty and to be executed than black defendants that the argument has shifted from a defendant-based to a victim-based one. We examine studies based on identical data …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Kast, Monica & Jacob Dick. Regents to Discuss Bylaws, President
• Williams, Jamie. Topper Tour – Timothy Caboni
• Alvey, Rebekah. Traveling Duo Brings World to New Sandwich Café – Roam Sandwich Company
• Kast, Monica. Housing & Residence Life Director Retires After 33 Years at WKU – Kit Tolbert
• Alvey, Rebekah. Renovations Made to Grise Hall Auditorium
• Slaughter, Wesley. Editorial Cartoon re: First Week of Class
• Horoscopes
• Johnson, Jack. Disney Goes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Snapshot: Best of Winter Break
• Moore, Elisabeth. Meet WKU’s Amazon …

Gender Dynamics In Sanctified Storefront Churches: A Study Of The Roles And Challenges Of Female Pastors In Mississippi County, Arkansas, Gloria Robinson Boyd

Student Theses and Dissertations

Sanctified churches in Mississippi County, consistent with others throughout the South, trace their origin back to slavery where African men and women secretly gathered and, through their efforts, evolved the invisible institution comprised of blended European and African beliefs and practices. As this entity expanded, so did the need for additional organizations that supported socio-economic and educational development of the race. Hence, from the invisible church emerged African American denominations with some meeting in homes or abandoned commercial properties starting a trend of what is now considered Sanctified storefront churches. Over time, areas like Mississippi County, Arkansas have experienced an …

Heritage Mine, Not Defined: The Politics Of Culture In The Lakeport Plantation Historic Restoration Project, Aketa Shantel Perry-Guillory

Student Theses and Dissertations

Arkansas Heritage Sites under the direction of Dr. Ruth Hawkins has become one of Arkansas State University’s most successful endeavors for developing heritage tourism in the state of Arkansas and the Mississippi Delta. To understand the processes of restoring a building and transforming it into a community museum, I apply the theories of the politics of culture in historic restoration projects and culture conservation. This case study reviews the problematic complexities of creating and opening a museum with a complex past. Museums are community educational repositories that preserve a particular past. They allow individuals to place themselves in an acting …