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'Barracoon' Brings A Lost Slave Story To Light

Slave narratives tend equally to fascinate and appall. They can represent history, red in tooth and claw, or, in the words of noted multiculturalist Lawrence W. Levine, "a mélange of accuracy and fantasy, of sensitivity and stereotype, of empathy and racism." First-hand accounts such as those by Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, or Solomon Northup come to us from rare enslaved individuals who were taught to write. But most of the extant material is one step removed, mediated by...

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AAMU News

The President of Alabama A&M University, Dr. Andrew Hugine Jr. is interviewed by WJAB 90.9 Program Manager, Erica "Fox" Washington for the March Edition of the Presidential Edition Community News from the Hill. 

Topics discussed: 

-AAMU Board Meeting

-New Residence Hall Ribbon Cutting

-College Wide Meetings

-AAMU Leadership Program - 2nd Cohort

-Youth Motivational Task Force

-Conversations with the President

-Alabama A&M University Branch Powered by -Redstone Federal Credit Union Ribbon Cutting

It's Official! The Alabama A&M University Branch Powered by Redstone Federal Credit Union is now open! A Grand Opening Ceremony was held Friday, March 16, 2018 at the Ernest L. Knight Reception Center. With standing room only, members of the Presidents Cabinet, Redstone Federal Credit Union Employees, Members of the Alabama A&M Family (alumni, faculty, staff, students) and media were all in attendance. 

Joe Newberry, President & CEO of Redstone Federal Credit Union began his remarks with a "Go Bulldogs," "Thankful for this opportunity. This is a dream come true."

"Promoting broader knowledge, heightened awareness, strategic actions for learning and intergenerational sharing" 

The Virginia Caples Lifelong Learning Institute (VCLLI) aims to establish a state-of-the-art facility that offers traditional and futuristic courses, while providing a stimulating educational, social, and life enhancing environment by having an impact on older adults, families, and caregivers.

Alabama A&M University is looking volunteers to usher for the Spring 2018 Commencement Exercises. The Commencement will be held Friday, May 4, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at the Von Braun Center Propst Arena. To volunteer, please contact Ms. Nicole Jackson at (256) 372-8747, Ms. Janet Jones at (256) 372-8089, or click here.

Taking higher education on wheels. Alabama A&M University set off for their Presidential Bus Tour Monday, February 19, 2018. The tour made stops in Alabama cities. During the tour, the administration provided over $16 million in scholarships and held on-site admissions for the future Bulldogs. The Bus Tour included President Hugine, First Lady Hugine, Miss Alabama A&M Aliyah Riley, Student Government Association President Julian Griffith-Battle, the Office of Admissions and more University figures. The tour ended February 23rd at 3 p.m.

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Earth Day 2018

Apr 5, 2018

The Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Urban Affairs and New Nontraditional Programs will celebrate Earth Day by participating in two upcoming Earth Day events.

The Alabama STEM Education will host the 2018 STEM Summer Fun camp on the campus of Alabama A&M University! 

Alabama STEM Education is offering this fun, learning experience to 30 middle and high school students. The camp begins June 4th, 2018 and last until August. Registration in $350 per month which includes meals and field trips. For more information, please contact (205) 436-2107.

Join the Metro Atlanta Chapter of the Alabama A&M Alumni Association as they host the Spring Day Party "Fedoras and Fascinators" on March 24, 2018 from    4 - 8 p.m.   

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Music

Liminal space can be both a beginning and a transition — it's the threshold that floats between worlds. When you just need to drift into nothingness from the aches of daily life, that unending quality makes for good ambient music, no?

The band's name — The Dreebs — sounds like urban-dwelling forest trolls, slipping in and out of sewers and city-sanctioned parks in packs.

Violinist and vocalist Adam Markiewicz, guitarist Jordan Bernstein and drummer Shannon Sigley have all played in the equally twisted PC Worship, and were all, at some point, part of a commune-like space called Le Wallet that's fostered many musicians in the New York scene. After a few records and digital releases, Forest of a Crew mutates The Dreebs into a strange and beautiful creature.

New phases are the unseen forces of life. In persons, in movements, they are the quietly unfolding moments and soul detritus that build momentum over time, only revealed as a crescent of new being. That's the poetry of a new moon, a solar body that exists, but is invisible to the unaided eye, and only rarely illuminated by an eclipse.

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