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They Were Here: Preservation and Commemoration of the Macedonia African American Methodist Church Cemetery of Johns Creek

Johns Creek High School 5575 State Bridge Road, Johns Creek, GA

The Tift College of Education of Mercer University (in partnership with the Johns Creek Historical Society) was awarded a Georgia Humanities grant for the project “They Were Here: Preservation and Commemoration of the Macedonia African American Methodist Church Cemetery of Johns Creek.” The grant was awarded to Johns Creek High School students in producing a […]

Common Good Atlanta: Behind the Scenes, Part 1 (Alumni)

Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA

The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta alumni to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on the community, an American penal system that is more focused […]

Common Good Atlanta: Behind the Scenes, Part 2 (Founders)

Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA

The seminar will bring together Jamil Zainaldin, Emory faculty, and Common Good Atlanta founders Sarah Higinbotham (Oxford College) and Bill Taft, to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of […]

Common Good Atlanta: Behind the Scenes, Part 3 (Faculty)

Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA

The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta faculty from Morehouse, Georgia State State University, and Georgia Tech to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on […]

African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century – Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

Join The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. as they present "African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century," a lecture series exploring the lives and work of African-American writers. This installment of the 8-part series will focus on Booker T. Washington.

$15

African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century – A White Woman Reads W.E.B. Dubois

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

Join The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. as they present "African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century," a lecture series exploring the lives and work of African-American writers. This installment of the 8-part series will focus on W.E.B. Dubois.

$15

Film: “Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration”

Georgia Museum of Art 90 Carlton Street, Athens, GA

In 2008, Sarah Higinbotham, a Ph.D. student at Georgia State University, wanted to teach a literature class in a Georgia prison, but discovered that no college programs existed in Georgia prisons, so she started one. This documentary by Atlanta filmmaker Hal Jacobs looks at the impact of the program on students and instructors. Incarcerated students […]

African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century: Zora Neale Hurston and the Spirit of the South

The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, United States

Join The Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. as they present "African-American Literary Voices of the 20th Century," a lecture series exploring the lives and work of African-American writers. This installment of the 8-part series will focus on Zora Neale Hurston.

$15

Jelena Subotic on Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

Georgia State University College of Arts & Sciences Events Center 25 Park Place NE, Atlanta, GA, United States

Georgia State University Humanities Research Center presents its next lecture series event featuring Georgia State University professor of political science Jelena Subotić. The lecture is based on her recent book about Eastern European remembrance of the Holocaust since the fall of communism. Yellow Star, Red Star has won multiple awards, including the Robert Jervis and […]

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