This year, Penguin released Romance in Marseille, a previously unpublished novel by Claude McKay – a recipient of a Rosenwald grant and a seminal writer of the Harlem Renaissance. The novel explores interconnected themes of race, class, and queer sexuality. Read the full review from The New York Times here!
Brent Leggs is the director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He and his colleagues are working to protect the remaining Rosenwald schools and other sites significant to black history. Leggs himself graduated from a Rosenwald school. Read the full article from The New Yorker here.
A recent photo history from The 74 tells and celebrates the relationship between Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington and their work building thousands of schools together for southern African American children.
“It isn’t the beat or the hook that makes “This Is America” by Childish Gambino so compelling, so memorable. It’s the ingenious allusion in lyrics and, most notably, imagery in its video — for example, a biblical image from Revelation 6:8 symbolizing police killings of black citizens — to the struggle of being black and marginalized in America…” Read the rest of the article here
A two-year study conducted by Preservation Virginia found that out of the 126 schools that were built with money from the Rosenwald Fund, eight of them are still standing—in Pittsylvania County. You can read more information about the study and the personal accounts of two men, Gene Ferguson and James Adams, who attended one of these Pittsylvania school at the link below.
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