Posted on February 8th, 2010 by kcrawfordahf
The Alabama Humanities Foundation has launched ahf.net/speakersbureau, our first-ever online Road Scholars Speakers Bureau catalog. We are now accepting requests for speakers bureau programs. We would also like to take this time to point out new changes in our booking procedures and guidelines that are highlighted below. New guidelines and procedure changes effective January 1, [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by mbrowneahf
Habari gani, or “What is the news?” This welcoming greeting is Swahili, a non-tribal language spoken throughout most of East Africa. It is the primary greeting for each day of Kwanzaa (Swahili for First Fruits), an African-American secular celebration that was created by Maulana Karenga, Ph.D., in 1966.
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by rstewartahf
Only days before we arrived for the Federation of State Humanities Councils’ national conference in Omaha, Nebraska, in November, the city’s famed “oracle,” investor Warren Buffett, announced that he was buying Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. I don’t know whether Buffett, from his Berkshire Hathaway offices, can see either the BNSF tracks or those of [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2009 by rstewartahf
I had a special reason to celebrate the University of Alabama’s victory over the University of Florida in the SEC Championship game on December 5. At the Federation of State Humanities Councils’ national conference in November, I made a wager on the game with the incoming chairman of the Federation board, David Colburn. David is [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by rstewartahf
AHF Board member Billie Jean Young, Ph.D., was among five Alabama women inducted into the Southern Rural Black Women’s Hall of Fame. The Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative was founded in 2005. Every two years it honors five rural black women from each of the three states included—Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. The five women were [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by bbashorahf
I was talking to a coworker a few weeks ago about some night classes she had taken recently–one of which was in the humanities. She mentioned that she had written a paper on Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel, the famous children’s books author and illustrator. I assumed that the subject matter of her paper was directed [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by kcrawfordahf
Note: this is a reprinting of a Birmingham News article, which ran on October 11, 2009. The original article can be found here. U.S. CAPITOL’S NATIONAL STATUARY HALL: Curry comes home barely known By Jim Noles On Wednesday, it was out with the old and in with the new in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by mchambersahf
Indeed, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an institution. And, rightfully so, the NAACP has been at the forefront for the past century and will continue into the next by meeting its mission to “Ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by kcrawfordahf
AHF Board member Jim Noles has written an article entitled “A fitting tribute: ‘They call this place America’” for the Chicago Tribune. Be sure to read it here. To read more about Jim, visit the AHF website for his bio.
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Posted on August 13th, 2009 by kcrawfordahf
The fall season of literary festivals in the South officially begins each year with the Tennessee Williams Tribute and Tour of Victorian Homes in Columbus, Miss., an official city along the Southern Literary Trail, a project funded by AHF, and birthplace of the playwright. This year’s edition begins on September 7 and continues through September [...]
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