Month: February 2025

Deirdre Cooper Owens Named Scholar In Residence at Occidental College

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Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens has been named the Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence at Occidental College in Los Angeles California. This awaAssociate professor of history, Deidre Cooper Owensrd is funded by the Stafford Ellison Wright Endowment, created by the Black Alumni Organization in honor of the college’s first black graduates, Dr. Janet Stafford, George F. Ellison, and Barbara Bowman Wright. Through this program, Occidental College is able to invite, “distinguished Black scholars, artists, elected officials, and others to spend time in residence at Occidental each year.“

Dr. Cooper Owens will be in residence between February 18th and 19th, 2025, visiting talking with students, as well as holding a healing circle on February 19th. On the 18th at 7pm, she will also present, “Slavery, Gynecology and Black Placental Resistance: Why Black Mothers Matter“, a free public lecture.

 

 

To read more about this impressive achievement: Occidental College

Jeffrey Ogbar Interviewed by KPFA

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On the 1st of February, Professor Jeffrey Ogbar was interviewed by KPFA 94.1, a radio station based in California. The episode, titled “Carry the Light: Atlanta: America’s Black Capital”, delves into “the history of the trials, tribulations, survival and triumphs of Atlanta’s Black citizens” and a discussion of these topics within the book America’s Black Captial.  Professor Ogbar talks with Davey D, the founder of Hard Knock Radio and a Hip Hop Historian. This episode is part of a series of interviews by KPFA to celebrate and recognize Black history and culture.

In 2023, Dr. Jeffery Ogbar published America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy, which “chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement”.

To listen to the interview: Carry the Light: Atlanta: America’s Black Capital

To listen to the other episodes in this series: Carry the Light