#Morris Brown College | Atlanta Georgia | Blacks’ College

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A detail view of a face mask on September 24, 2021, in Kohler, Wisconsin. Donald Trump and conservatives across social media are heightening awareness to potential mask mandates due to new cases stemming from coronavirus variants. Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

United States: Mask Mandate Comeback Sparks 'We Will Not Comply' Movement

— By Nick Mordowanec | August 31, 2023

will not comply' movement is slowly formulating across social media, spurred by Donald Trump's renewed focus on mask mandates and COVID-affiliated lockdowns that he initiated at the pandemic's inception.

Trump, in a video posted Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter, vowed to reject any "fearmongering" of new coronavirus variants and if elected president pledged to cut federal funding for entities like schools and airlines that follow such protocols.

Trump was the individual who set the original mandates and lockdowns in motion, however, when coronavirus cases escalated exponentially starting in March 2020. At the time, he urged individuals to avoid bars, restaurants and other areas where 10 or more people were gathered in the hope that the virus would dissipate by that summer.

"'Do not comply' means your [sic] not going to go to work if your employer requires a mask as part of the 'mandate' not law; your [sic] not going to wear one at the Dr, Dentist, restaurant or stores," wrote one Facebook user. "Imagine if everyone did not comply how that would hurt our government or economy.

"If every American did not go to work or buy anything at all for one or two days things would get real. We are all slaves to our Government until we stop conforming to the demands and dollar."

New coronavirus variants now emerging with case spikes in certain parts of the United States include EG.5 and BA.2.86. Major companies like Pfizer and Moderna who were highly involved in the swift rollout of vaccines at the height of the pandemic are scheduled to release a new vaccine in mid-September to combat the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, pending approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A CDC spokesperson told Newsweek on Thursday via email that the center's advice for individual and community actions around COVID-19 is tied to hospital admission levels, which are currently low for more than 97 percent of the country.

"CDC continues to recommend that all people are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines and take steps to themselves and others," the spokesperson said. "Anyone may choose to wear a mask at any time."

Time may tell whether the discussion around mandates and lockdowns is alarmist considering that very few places in the country have COVID-related measures currently in place.

One, for example, is Morris Brown College, a small Atlanta-based historically Black college, which told students to adhere to mask-wearing for a two-week period due to an influx of COVID-related cases.

"Dear Atlanta College, Regarding your precautionary mask mandate... I have a precautionary Foot I'd like to shove up you're a**!" wrote comedian and former Saturday Night Live actor Rob Schneider on X, in response to the Morris Brown mandate. "But don't worry, it's just for the next 14 days! For your own protection! Ps. Students WAKE UP, SHEEPLE! SAY NO!"

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin released a video on X of her literally shaking her head when confronted with hypothetical mandates, even burning some masks outdoors.

Libs of Tik Tok, which has 2.4 million followers on X, is encouraging individuals to ignore all mandates and pledges to support impacted businesses—and even pay any fines for noncompliance.

One X user posted that she would ignore mandates instituted by Trump, President Joe Biden or anyone else.

"I won't mask again," the user wrote. "I don't care what Trump or Fauci or Birx or Biden or any other governmental agency try and push again. I won't deal with the anxiety mask wearing brings me again. Not going to cover my daughter's beautiful face or force her to deal with the frequent painful breakouts again. Nope. For my child, I say, never again."

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This didn’t get a lot of attention a week or so ago other to say “here we go again”. It’s the slippery slope back into the Covid fear porn tyranny to prevent demonstrations that are pro trump (given the avalanche of legal proceedings about to happen in next six months and longer) and especially the elections. Hand it to the commies, worked pretty good last time because we’ve become a nation of sheep and corrupted politicians.

But to the exactly point here: Morris Brown College just outside Atlanta (odd…Georgia…anything about to happen there?) was the first in the nation school to reinstall mask mandates and social distancing etc etc.

Here’s their reason why per the article:

“Effective immediately, Morris Brown College has reinstated its COVID-19 mask mandate due to reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center,” the announcement read, referring to the nonprofit coalition of historically black colleges.

Oh…”reports” eh? How many? That’s the starting question…not that it matters for a common cold or mild flu like illness. Do they do the same for the flu, etc etc etc.

The number of cases? Exactly ZERO! Per the article:

While COVID cases were reported within the Atlanta University Center, no cases have been reported at Morris Brown College, President Kevin James told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He noted that the protocols were “precautionary measures.”

“no cases”. “Precautionary measures”

This college should precautionary fuck off.

Do not comply.

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Born in 1937 in Georgia, Emma Amos took an interest in art while she was a child. She made paper dolls and copied the figures from magazines. At age eleven she took classes at Morris Brown School. She improved her draftsmanship and was exposed to the art of other Black American students. While she was still in high school, she was already submitting her work to art shows at Atlanta University. It was clear for the very beginning, Emma was going places.

Emma studied art at the Central School of At in London after graduatiing for Antioch College in Ohio. She would move to New York looking for a more vibrant art scene that she couldn't find in Georgia upon returning to the US. She would be blindsided by the racism and sexism and even, ageism she was met with, perhaps assuming the more metropolitan state would be more progressive. She was too young for galleries to bother with her and she had trouble finding positions available to teach. She did eventually find work, as an assistant, at the Dalton School. This did end up fortuitous as she met other artists that introduced her to the art scenes in New York and East Hampton.

She still found struggles. She was a woman in an art world that prioritized the work of men. And she was a black woman, and like many black artists, struggled to find dealers and curators that wanted to work with her. Emma would not be deterred.

She joined Letterio Calapai's print making studios and Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. She earned her Masters of Art from New York University in 1966 and became reacquainted with artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff who was teaching there.

She met with Woodruff for feedback and criticism of her work and he introduced her to Spiral Arts Alliance. A collective of African-American Artists. Not just art, this group discussed philosophy, and culture about the meaning of blackness within the African diaspora. A frame work for critique and cultivating "Black Consciousness" and a common racial identity. She would be allowed to join, as the first female member of the group. At this time, she was working full time as a designer and studying full time as well. It left her only time to paint on the weekends.

In 1965 Spiral rented space for the first and only Exhibition. Emma would exhibit an etching called Without a Feather Boa, that sadly, is now lost. Described as a self portrait, a nude bust, of Emma looking dispassionately at the viewer from behind sunglasses. Before this, Emma has been reticent to participate in the idea of Black Art and galleries and shows that only showed the work of black Americans. Like so many artists, she likely though of herself as an artist first, but came to understand the harsh reality was that there were not a lot of options for black artists. These Black Art shows and galleries were the only way to get your foot in the door.

Despite this early resistance, she embraced sex and race in her art, toeing the line of politics but never allowing her work to be drowned in controversy. There were often depictions of the confederate flag, the American flag, traditional African patterns, including her own weavings as she was a well accomplished craftsman as well as a painter.

Emma became a professor in 1980, and later chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University, and she would teach there for close to thirty years. During her time here she would join the Heresies Collective. A feminist group founded in 1976 in New York by feminist political artists.

She says of the group: "And that’s what Heresies became for me. All of my disdain for white feminists disappeared, because we were all in the same boat. We just came to the boat from different spaces."

She was also a member of the feminist group Guerilla Girls under the pseudonym Zora Neale Hurston.

In these groups, and others she took part in, she discussed the sex revolution of the 60s and 70's the failures of white feminism, and the privilege of white Americans in the arts and in life. She was keenly aware of artists that existed within the margins of society and how difficult it is for those people to continue activities in comparison the white hegemonic art circles.

In 2008, Emma retired from teaching, but she never stopped being a teacher, supporting her students even after, going to their exhibitions and continuing to inspire and be inspired. In 2020, Emma died from complications of Alzheimer's Disease. She was 83. Her work is viewable in many, many galleries and museums and we've only just scratched the surface of this woman's art, passions, and intriguing life. If you'd like to see more of Emma's work and learn more about her: Museum of Modern Art - Emma Amos - Works Philadelphia Museum of Art - Emma Amos: Color Odyssey Virtual Discussion: Emma Amos: Color Odyssey NYT Emma Amos, Painter who challenged Racism and Sexism, Dies at 83 DVD/VHS for purchase Emma Amos - Actions Lines Ryan Lee Gallery - Emma Amos

Emma Amos Website

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Pastor Dr. Herman ‘Skip’ Mason, Jr. (July 14, 1962) was born in Atlanta to Herman Mason and Deloris Hughes is a pastor, archivist, author, and educator.

He serves as senior pastor of West Mitchell Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta. He serves as the Director of Library Service and Assistant Professor of African-American History and Religion at Voorhees College

He has served as professor of history, college archivist, director and dean of students, and vice president of student services at Morris Brown College and Morehouse College. He currently serves as the director of library services and assistant professor of African American history and religion at Voorhees College.

He has authored numerous books, including Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties, Black Entertainment in Atlanta, African American Life in DeKalb County, Black American Series: East Point, Georgia, and Politics, Law and Civil Rights in Atlanta. He has also curated major exhibitions, including the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Centennial Exhibition; Crowns and Gowns: The Legacy of the Homecoming Queen; and Hidden Treasures: Black Photographers in Atlanta.

He earned a BA at Morris Brown College. He earned an MA in Library and information science with a concentration in African American studies and archives/museum management at Clark Atlanta University. He obtained an M.Div and a D.Min from the Interdenominational Theological Center.

He served as the 33rd general president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and as a member of the National Board of Directors of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation. He is a member of numerous fraternal, social, and civic organizations, including Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and St. James Lodge No 24/Prince Hall.

He is the founder of Skip Mason Vanishing Black Atlanta Facebook Page and Book Club. He is the father of a daughter and a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #sigmapiphi #alphaphialpha

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Learn to know your mutuals and followers :)

Watching anime that I've seen over and over again to give me those happy vibes. Seriously, if anyone wants to gush over fullmetal alchemist/brotherhood or Beyond the Boundary hit me up RIGHT NOW. I want to geek out about how much I love them.

Nostalgic Y2K aesthetic posts about fashion, music, and tv shows. Seriously, have y'all not noticed me gushing about Bratz for like 2 months now? The 2000's had the same hip, classic, fun vibe as the 90's but it was a brand new century with new ideas, and birthed one of the most....interesting generations. Also, 2000's had the best cartoons don't @ me.

Blankets. Cozzy, fuzzy blankets. I love them. Make me feel safe and secure and warm, and I love different textures of them. Fuzzy textures help me relax and unwind after a lot of stress and anxiety.

Anything involving HBCU's. Literally, just the idea of going to a college with a bunch of different people is already cool--but the one unifying factor is our skin color and culture. So many different kinds of black people to be around.

Atlanta, being a (relativley speaking) safe haven for black LGBT people in comparison to the rest of Georgia AND having 3 (4 if you count Morris Brown) HBCU's there in the center AND all the cool resturaunts, the mall(s) and shops, the city atmosphere, the black culture, the music, just EVERYTHING about Atlanta. I love it.

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Joseph Lowery

Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving as its vice president, later chairman of the board, and from 1977 to 1997 its president. Lowery participated in most of the major activities of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued his civil rights work into the 21st century. He was called the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement."

In 2009, Lowery received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama.

Biography

Joseph E. Lowery was born to Leroy and Dora Lowery on October 6, 1921. His mother was a teacher and his father owned a small business in Alabama. When he was 11, he was abused and punched by a white police officer, for not getting off the sidewalk as a white man was passing. Lowery ran home to get a gun, but his father arrived and talked him out of it. His family sent him away while he attended middle school in Chicago staying with relatives, but he returned to Huntsville, Alabama, to complete William Hooper Councill High School. He attended the Knoxville College and Alabama A&M College. Lowery graduated from Paine College. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

He attended ministerial training at Payne Theological Seminary and later on, he completed a Doctor of Divinity degree at the Chicago Ecumenical Institute. He married Evelyn Gibson in 1950, a civil rights activist and leader in her own right. She was the sister of the late Harry Gibson, an activist, and elder member of the Northern Illinois conference of the United Methodist Church, Chicago area. She died on September 26, 2013. They had three daughters: Yvonne Kennedy, Karen Lowery, and Cheryl Lowery-Osborne. Lowery also had two sons, Joseph Jr. and LeRoy III, from an earlier marriage to Agnes Moore.

American civil rights career

Lowery was pastor of the Warren Street Methodist Church, in Mobile, Alabama, from 1952 to 1961. His career in the Civil Rights Movement took off in the early 1950s. After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955, he helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott. He headed the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, an organization devoted to the desegregation of buses and public places. In 1957, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Lowery founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and subsequently led the organization as its president from 1977 to 1997.

Lowery's car and other property, along with that of other civil rights leaders, was seized in 1959 by the State of Alabama to pay damages resulting from a libel suit. The Supreme Court of the United States later reversed this decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. At the request of King, Lowery participated in the Selma to Montgomery march of 1965. He was a co-founder and president of the Black Leadership Forum, a consortium of black advocacy groups. This Forum protested the existence of Apartheid in South Africa from the mid-1970s through the end of white minority rule there. Lowery was among the first five black men to be arrested outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C., during the Free South Africa movement. He served as the pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta from 1986 through 1992, adding over a thousand members and leaving the church with 10 acres (40,000 m2) of land.

To honor him, the city government of Atlanta renamed Ashby Street for him. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard is just west of downtown Atlanta and runs north-south beginning at West Marietta Street near the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and stretching to White Street in the "West End" neighborhood, running past Atlanta's Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Morris Brown College.

Lowery advocated for LGBT civil rights, including civil unions and, in 2012, same-sex marriage.

Death

Lowery died on March 27, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Awards

Lowery received several awards. The NAACP gave him their Lifetime Achievement Award at its 1997 convention calling him the "dean of the civil rights movement". He received the inaugural Walter P. Reuther Humanitarian Award from Wayne State University in 2003. He has also received the Martin Luther King Jr. Center Peace Award and the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2004. Ebony named him one of the 15 greatest black preachers, describing him as, "the consummate voice of biblical social relevancy, a focused voice, speaking truth to power." Lowery also received several honorary doctorates from colleges and universities including, Dillard University, Morehouse College, Alabama State University, University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Emory University. In 2004, Lowery was honored at the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lowery was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, on July 30, 2009. He was also given the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute that year.

Remarks at Coretta Scott King's funeral

In 2006, at Coretta Scott King's funeral, Lowery received a standing ovation when he remarked before four U.S. presidents in attendance:

We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor!

Conservative observers claimed his comments were inappropriate in a setting meant to honor the life of Mrs. King, especially considering George W. Bush was present at the ceremony. None of Mrs. King's family has objected to Lowery's words.

President Barack Obama's inauguration benediction

On January 20, 2009, Lowery delivered the benediction at the inauguration of Senator Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. He opened with lines from "Lift Every Voice and Sing", also known as "The Negro National Anthem", by James Weldon Johnson. He concluded with the following, an interpolation of Big Bill Broonzy's "Black, Brown and White":

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get [in] back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. Let all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Say Amen! And Amen!

A number of conservative pundits including Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin criticized this final passage, accusing it of being "divisive" and "racialist." Reporters in attendance called the passage a mocking of racial stereotypes, and said that the crowd received it with good humor.

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#blackhistorymonth2022 DAY 28 (Final but never last). The Story of Magnolia Elliott (My grandmother) I want to take the time to honor the legacy of my very own grandmother, Magnolia Muckle Elliott, who became the 1st African American teacher to integrate the Douglas County school system in 1967 at Annette Winn Elementary School. She taught 29 white students and 1 black student in that first class at Annette Winn. While working at Winn Elementary, she had to always check under the hood of her car for bombs, due to the amount of threats she received from parents, staff and residents. Intergration efforts had met with violent outbursts all across the country, including the county, where she teached. Born in Gainesville, GA on August 23rd, 1924, Magnolia was the youngest of her six siblings. Her parents were Hattie Muckle and Reverend Ernest Muckle. At age 14, she worked as a maid to help her family raise 18 dollars for rent. She was paid 14 cents for 4 hour service. For lunch, whites used to give her leftover scraps from their plates, because they refused to treat her like a human being, they treated her like a dog. She continued working as a maid to pay for her tuition which was $100 dollars, when she went to college. She graduated from Morris Brown College with a double major in home economics and education and she completed graduate work at Atlanta University and West Georgia College. She met and married army veteran & musician James Elliott Sr. (Lead Guitarist of the Five Trumpets) in Powder Springs and had four children: Debra, Sheila, Jacqueline and James Elliott. Two of her four children, James Elliott and Jacqueline Crawford, graduated from West Georgia College. In 1978, James Elliott Sr. passed away from cancer and left Magnolia a widow. Magnolia also taught at the Washington Street School in Austell and at R.L. Cousins, which became Stewart Middle School. She taught at Annette Winn for 19 years and has been at Beulah for three years. Because of her, many of her students grew up to become active leaders in the Douglas County system from police officers and firefighters to teachers to politicians. https://www.instagram.com/p/CahXdyyLB-H/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Morris Brown College’s historic Fountain Hall could finally be on the verge of salvation

Could the ailing, historic building find new life soon? | Atlanta Preservation Center, via Facebook

More than a century old, the red brick building is a beacon of hope on a campus that’s suffered many losses

For years, Morris Brown College’s aging centerpiece seemed destined to fall victim to demolition by neglect.

Now, though, the historic Fountain Hall could be nearing salvation through preservation.

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation recently dubbed Fountain Hall one of the “Top 10 Places in Peril,” and in November, the National Park Service awarded Morris Brown a $500,000 grant to help renovate the aging structure, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

For generations, Fountain Hall has been among the most recognizable structures west of downtown, the emblem of a black college established in the late 1800s on Atlanta’s Westside

Atlanta Preservation Center

Founded by former slaves just 17 years after slavery ended in America, Morris Brown lost its accreditation in 2002, due to unpaid debts and other financial mismanagement.

Since then, Fountain Hall has sat vacant, worrying historic preservationists it would meet the same fate as neighboring buildings on campus that have withered away.

David Mitchell, Atlanta Preservation Center director of operations, tells Curbed Atlanta the organization has considered much of Morris Brown’s campus, including Fountain Hall, endangered since 2007.

Much of the institution in recent years has deteriorated or crumbled completely; Gaines Hall and Furber Cottage burned, and the school’s main dormitory was razed.

“We’re very excited about the opportunity to see Fountain Hall be restored and take its rightful place in telling the story of Atlanta postwar to the present,” Mitchell says.

The National Park Service has estimated Fountain Hall’s revival could cost upwards of $1.4 million, per the AJC.

Repairing the roof and installing a fire alarm system are first on the docket for the restoration.

Morris Brown leaders are also spearheading a $15 million capital campaign that could help the school earn accreditation with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges by 2020.

source https://atlanta.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048362/morris-brown-college-historic-fountain-hall-atlanta-restoration

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Pre-Georgia musings, if you will.

It’s really, really ingratiating when you can enjoy a weekend away from the usual heart-pounding action that is Auburn football. Watching everyone else put it on the line is a rare joy that needs to be appreciated every single time it’s experienced. When that kind of an open date coincides with what happened yesterday across the country, it’s extra nice. Let’s recap, with thoughts.

Big news out of Tuscaloosa — through a quality loss, Alabama has improved their standing for the College Football Playoff. You’ve got to have that close loss to a top team on your resume to show how battle-tested you are, and now the Tide have it. They’re in prime position to skate right on through, no need to see them test themselves against Georgia in Atlanta, and no need to penalize them for beating, you know, nobody.

It really is astonishing how quickly after the loss the rationalization began.

LSU won the game with a first down and this was CBS's immediate on-screen response, I believe every conspiracy theory y'all have ever said pic.twitter.com/wfOgzabOpU

— BUM CHILLUPS (@edsbs) November 10, 2019

CBS had this graphic ready made. DId they have one for LSU too? If you told me no, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. I’m a little mad at LSU, since they allowed Bama to come back and make it a close game. Hopefully everyone was actually watching and saw that Bama isn’t the team that they used to be and that they allowed 40+ points to the last two highly-ranked teams that they’ve played. In the end, Tua’s hurt ankle, the close nature of the game, and the eye test will be enough to get Bama into the Playoff, unless...

Good morning everyone. It’s the best time of the year. ITS BUTTS OUT AUBURN SZN. https://t.co/4C5CEVCmVt

— (try)STAN Harris (@stan_try) November 10, 2019

Here’s the situation: Gus Malzahn is once again at the ire of a large portion of the Auburn fanbase. This isn’t a black and white issue, it’s a freaking kaleidoscope.

On one hand, Auburn is absolutely undefeated with, like, 10% better offensive play this year. That’s Gus’ job. He bet on himself and made himself the play-caller, so all offensive miscues now fall directly on him. There’s no scapegoat.

On the other hand, we’ve got a true freshman quarterback that already got us one win over a now-sixth-ranked Oregon team away from home, and the two losses are on the road to the #1 and #11 teams.

On the third hand, we’re wasting the best defense in college football by not being better on offense. We lose the meat of that group for next year, and even if the offense is better, the defense will regress a bit. It has to without Derrick Brown, Marlon Davidson, and company.

On another hand, are some Auburn fans looking to get rid of Gus for stagnation reasons? Or are they looking because they think that Auburn can do better? Gus has never failed to make a bowl game, unlike every previous Auburn coach since WWII. Who’s out there that we could get to replace him? First of all, Auburn isn’t getting rid of him unless he leaves. There’s a $25 million price tag on a move like that.

HOWEVER, the one job that he’s always been linked to is now open.

If you tuned in for Arkansas football yesterday, you got there just in time for the death rattle. The Pigs lost to their former quarterback Ty Storey and the WKU Hilltoppers, and it’s surprising that they didn’t pull the plug on Chad Morris on the field a la Bret Bielema. Every time the Arkansas job comes open, the rumor mill begins. Gus to Fayetteville.

Why would that happen? Let’s pretend that Gus hasn’t already pledged millions of dollars of his own money to making Auburn athletics better and more competitive, and put on our conspiracy caps. Mama’s calling, all that jazz, god to high school coaches far and wide across the Ozarks — that’s Gus Malzahn to Arkansas fans. To the rest of the country it’s the roster that Bielema couldn’t mold to his liking, and he didn’t close the lid on the Play-doh, leaving the clay hardened and unusable for Morris. To be frank, Arkansas has nothing. No players. Gus Malzahn goes there and he struggles to win five games for a couple years. Maybe he gets a win over Ole Miss or Mississippi State. Maybe there’s bowl eligibility in year three. Then where are you? Just then do you even get your head above water.

What happens if he fails? What happens if the roster is too terrible? Arkansas just lost to Western Kentucky 45-19. This isn’t a program on the brink of success, it’s one on the brink of relegation. If you go to take over that job and fail, then you’re done. It’s back to coordinator or head coach at an even lower level gig. If the pressure’s too much at Auburn, and the mumbling is audible, then it could make sense, but Gus seems too invested to take an offer like that right now.

Plus, he’s got three games left this season, and two HUGE chances to win back most of that fanbase like he did two years ago.

Something to monitor going forward in the SEC....Georgia's top two centers injured tonight vs Missouri and they face Auburn's incredible front 7 next week at Jordan-Hare. Lawrence Cager, their star WR banged up as well.

— Peter Burns (@PeterBurnsESPN) November 10, 2019

Georgia shut out Missouri last night, and looked really bored/sloppy in doing it. For all of the recruiting success (possibly an even more talented team than Alabama on paper??), the Bulldogs have looked really rough since losing to South Carolina. An offense with all of that talent shouldn’t be struggling as much as they are, but Kirby seems hell-bent on recreating 2009 Alabama, which would be about the third or fourth best team in the SEC this year.

There’s a difference between what happened two years ago and what’s happening now, though. As we enter Georgia week, Auburn is rested and coming off of a close win over Ole Miss. The Tigers aren’t great on offense, and Bo Nix needs to show us something before much of the fanbase is sold on him. He’s been way better at home than on the road, so it’s really nice that we get the last few weeks at Jordan-Hare.

Two years ago, the offense was on fire. In SEC play before the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry, Auburn posted 51, 49, 44, 23, 52, and 42 points. Then they dropped a 40-burger on the Dawgs. It’s not quite the same this year, but we won’t need 40 to beat Georgia.

Elsewhere around the SEC/Top 25:

Fans Are Not Eligible Receiverspic.twitter.com/uo4uKopN0i

— Derrick & Marlon for Heisman (@sheabooskyy) November 10, 2019

If Gus does leave, we’re not hiring Will Muschamp.

And with that, No. 17 Minnesota takes down No. 4 Penn State (via @GopherFootball) pic.twitter.com/lrLHi693MN

— SI College Football (@si_ncaafb) November 9, 2019

But I’m sure there are some people that would like to hire P.J. Fleck. Even in his Rod Corrdry weirdness, he’s got Minnesota undefeated and in position to win the division in the Big Ten. Would he be able to recruit the south? Maybe. We’ve seen that weirdness is winning lately. Being goofy is good. Ed Orgeron and Dabo aren’t taking things too seriously, and they’re not losing.

Elsewhere Jalen Hurts and Oklahoma almost lost to Iowa State, escaping 42-41 last night. If there’s a 2-loss Big 12 champ, then Bama gets in, so we’re all massive Jalen Hurts fans right now. Also, Matt Rhule fans.

Right now there’s discord and enmity between Auburn fans for what’s been going on with the offense, but it’s all fixable this coming Saturday. Beat Georgia, and Gus’ seat temporarily cools once again. Beat Bama at the end of the month, keeping them out of the Playoff for sure, and Gus’ job temperature gets ice cold.

Big week, *$&# Georgia, y’all.

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Haunted by Chic: The 2017 O’More Designer Show House

The fourth iteration of the O'More Designer Show House is underway in Nashville's new Voce development. Sixteen of the school's graduates have put their stamp on it, and it is more than you can imagine.  

Interior Designer Kimberly Kelly, of K7 Interior Design, was this year’s architect and builder liaison, as well as the designer for the home’s library.  She took us on a tour of the designer spaces and shared some of the details of her super chic space.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

Once the home of country music icon Eddy Arnold, the Voce neighborhood aims to preserve the natural beauty and historic character of the property.  The mixture of exterior materials of this year’s show house certainly compliments its natural surroundings.  We were in love with the house’s exterior color, which Kimberly Kelly said is Benjamin Moore Black Panther.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

Upon entering the house through the front door, you walk into the family room designed by honorary chair Amy Morris of Atlanta, Georgia.  Morris aimed to create a gathering space using soft fabrics and comfortable seating, in order to create a relaxing environment for friends and family.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

The kitchen and scullery were designed by Randi Stovesand of Tanley Blake Interiors.  This tucked away scullery complete with oven, dishwasher, and plenty of storage allows the kitchen open to the family room to be super clean, with all the mess hidden behind it.  Brilliant.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

The gray penny tile mixed with the sleek counters were so, so good.

Adjacent to the kitchen, the dining room was designed by Jonathan Savage of Savage interior Design.  His inspiration was from the White House’s Blue Room designed by French design firm Maison Jansen in 1962 under the direction of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.  The Maison Jansen designed dining table was the focus of his dining room design.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

Then it was on to see the library designed by Kimberly Kelly.  She wanted the library to be a very personal space with a moody, eclectic feel.  

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

She said that this is the kind of space to put your favorite things, incorporating a few of her own on the mirror in the room.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

The charcoal prints she found at Scott’s Antiques, which were sold from an estate sale of an artist’s house.  The Cole & Son Nuvolette wallpaper mixed with Robert Allen draperies, was a perfect combination.  

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

Incorporating her own artwork, we were definitely inspired by this rich yet comfortable space.  

We could live in the screened in porch designed by Honorary Chair Robert Brown.  His concept was to play against the drama of the exteriors’ dark color, filling it with modern outdoor furniture.  It was so, so chic.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

Just inside was the friends’ entry and gallery designed by Minnette Jackson of Minnette Jackson Interiors.  A transitional room designed to bridge the indoors and outdoors, we loved the natural textures Minnette selected.  We are a sucker for a handsome Dutch door, and the grasscloth wallpaper and timeless color palette gave it a taste of elegance.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

The downstairs powder room designed by Susan Lamb of Parkes and Lamb Interiors was stunning.  Of course we loved the Charlotte Terrell landscape that they incorporated into their design.

A quick snap with Christi’s iPhone.

We headed upstairs next, but not without stopping to gawk at the beautiful stairway and landing.  The dark gray shiplap was a chic spin on the traditional white shiplap look we’ve all become accustomed to seeing.

Another quick snap with Christi’s iPhone - isn’t Kimberly Kelly super cute?

Upstairs was the most beautiful, light-filled master bedroom designed by Lila Pryor Frank of Lila Pryor Frank Interiors.  Designed to be a restful retreat, the natural textures combined with the lush velvets and linens, highlighted the serene natural landscape outside the large bedroom windows. 

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

The master bath, designed by Kathy Sandler of Sandler Design Group, created a spa-like setting - and closets were styled by O’More College of Fashion students.  You. Have. To. See. Her. Closet.

Finally, I have to say a special thanks to Leslee Mitchell.  We literally had one hour in between back-to-back shoots last week, and she tagged along for our tour.  She snapped these beautiful pictures with just a camera in her purse, and we’re so grateful she let us share.

Photo by Leslee Mitchell.

If you haven’t been to see this show house, you must go!  These photos just highlight a few of the fabulous spaces, you have to see it all.  The house is open for touring until November 12, with proceeds benefiting O’More College of Design in the realm of student scholarships, improved buildings, and new technology and equipment.

Thanks to Kimberly Kelly for such a fun stop in our day.  You did a great job with this special project!  Thanks for the tour!

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Morris Brown College (MBC) is a private Methodist historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta. Founded January 5, 1881, Morris Brown is the first educational institution in Georgia to be owned and operated entirely by African Americans. The Morris Brown Colored College is affiliated with the AME Church, the first independent black denomination in the US. It was named to honor the denomination's second bishop, Morris Brown, originally from Charleston. The school was chartered and opened on October 15, 1885, with 107 students and nine teachers. By 1898 the school had 14 faculty, 422 students, and 18 graduates. For more than a century, the college enrolled many students from poor backgrounds, large numbers of whom returned to their hometowns as teachers, as education was a mission of high priority. Fountain Hall, originally known as Stone Hall when occupied by Atlanta University, was completed in 1882. After Atlanta University consolidated its facilities, it leased the building to Morris Brown College, which was renamed Fountain Hall. It is associated with the history of Morris Brown College and has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. Morris Brown College's Herndon Stadium was the site of the field hockey competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The stadium is designed to seat 15,000 spectators. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CYWR6JdrxjV6XuIcuJp7XP0R8QLCjnsAZZSedM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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America’s Oldest HBCU Is Fighting For Survival

Nestled 45 minutes outside Philadelphia, the Cheyney University campus looks like any number of small colleges that dot the rural Northeast: rolling lawns, stately gray brick dorm halls and an architectural hodgepodge of classroom buildings old and new, each a testament to Cheyney’s 183-year history.

But Cheyney University isn’t just any run-of-the-mill Northeastern college. Cheyney is the country’s oldest historically black college or university.

HBCUs, a common acronym for the institutions, are a crucial albeit often overlooked part of our country’s history. Some, like Cheyney and Lincoln (another university that also claims the title of being the first HBCU), were founded before the Civil War. But the vast majority of HBCUs were founded after the war’s end to educate the millions of freed African-Americans.

The years following the Civil War saw the founding of some our country’s most prestigious HBCUs, including Howard University in Washington, D.C. (1867), Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (1866), and Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia (1867). 

By the early 20th century, HBCUs had cemented their place at the epicenter of black American life, having produced many of our country’s most esteemed black leaders, scholars, politicians and artists.

But things began to change for HBCUs in 1954 when the Brown v. Board of Education decision ushered in a new era of school integration. HBCUs, once the only option for black students, began competing with predominantly white universities to attract top black talent. The decades that followed took their toll.

“HBCUs produced so many talented, high achieving, not just professionals, but scholars, that over time they now go anywhere,” said Ron Stodghill, an associate professor at the University of Missouri and author of Where Everybody Looks like Me: At The Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture. “It’s kind of an irony that HBCUs are almost a victim of their own success.”

Today, the survival of many of America’s historically black colleges and universities is in jeopardy.

Schools like Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, are beset with financial woes and plunging enrollment that threaten their accreditation, while schools like Morris Brown College in Atlanta have already had their accreditations pulled.

HBCUs produced so many talented, high achieving, not just professionals, but scholars, that over time they now go anywhere. It’s kind of an irony that HBCUs are almost a victim of their own success. Ron Stodghill, an associate professor at the University of Missouri

Perhaps nowhere is the present state of America’s smaller HBCUs more clear than at Cheyney University.

Enrollment at Cheyney has dropped 38 percent since last year, and the school has been struggling to keep its accreditation with Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).

It was against this backdrop that Aaron Walton assumed the role of university president in 2017, making him Cheyney’s fourth president in 10 years.

Walton, a veteran businessman who also served on the board of governors of PASSHE, was initially alarmed at the fractured state of the university.

“Even though I had been on the board for a number of years, until you actually are resident in a place you can’t tell the depth of issues that an organization has,” Walton said.

Leaning into his private-sector experience, Walton began making changes. He eliminated jobs, reorganized academic departments and discontinued the school’s popular football program.

“Some of the decisions that have had to be made are very difficult and very painful to a lot of people including myself,” said Walton. “I don’t relish disrupting people’s lives. But I also know changing the business model is not change, it’s transformation.”

While still acknowledging the tough road ahead, Walton believes that Cheyney’s transformation is imminent. He says enrollment is up for the coming year, and the school recently unveiled programs, including a partnership with Starbucks and Thomas Jefferson University, aimed at attracting competitive students from around the world.

Nina-Simone Beaver, a senior in Cheyney’s Keystone Honors Academy program, was cautiously optimistic about the future of Cheyney, likening the school to a 183-year-old tree.

“With time, 183 years, there becomes old branches,” said Beaver. “But I will say, you have to be careful because even though you want this tree to grow, you can’t cut it down so much and hinder the roots.”

This article has been updated to include information on Lincoln University.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story indicated Morris Brown College is outside Atlanta. In fact, it is in Atlanta.

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cheyney-university-oldest-hbcu_n_5c75c2e2e4b062b30eb8df3e

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How Morris Brown College Went From Enrolling 2,500 students To Only Having 40

How Morris Brown College Went From Enrolling 2,500 students To Only Having 40

Morris Brown College was once a staple HBCU located in Atlanta Georgia. The school is not only known for being the first institution of higher learning in Georgia for black people, founded by black people, but Morris Brown has also greatly attributed to American history and pop cultural. In 2006, Outkast released their hit song called Morris Brown, which features Morris Brown renowned marching…

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(BPRW) A Marching Band at Allen University

Mr. Eddie Ellis Hired as New Band Director to lead the Band of Gold

 (Black PR Wire) Allen University today unveiled another vital element in the institution’s steady resurgence.  A show-stopping marching band directed by an eminent band master is the latest initiative. The Allen “Band of Gold” will take the field fall semester 2018 with Eddie Ellis directing.

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John Oliver Killens

John Oliver Killens (January 14, 1916 – October 27, 1987) was an American fiction writer from Georgia who wrote novels on African-American life.

Early life and education

Killens was born in Macon, Georgia, to Charles Myles Killens, Sr, and Willie Lee Killens. His father encouraged him to read Langston Hughes' writings, and his mother, who was president of Dunbar Literary Club, introduced him to poetry. Killens was an enthusiastic reader as a child and was inspired by writers such as Hughes and Richard Wright. His great-grandmother’s tales of slavery were another important factor in his gaining knowledge of traditional black mythology and folklore, which he later incorporated into his writings.

Killens graduated in 1933 from Ballard Normal School in Macon, a private institution run by the American Missionary Association and at the time one of the few secondary schools for blacks in Georgia. Planning to be a lawyer, he attended historically black colleges to study further at the college level and focus on law: Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida, Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Howard University in Washington DC, and in 1939 the Robert H. Terrell Law School in Washington, D.C. In his final year, he left in order to study creative writing at Columbia University in New York.

Killens enlisted in the army during World War II, serving as a member of the Pacific amphibious forces from 1942 to 1945. He spent more than two years in the South Pacific, and rose to the rank of master sergeant.

Literary career

In 1948, Killens moved to New York City, where he worked to establish a literary career. He attended writing classes at Columbia University and New York University. He was an active member of many organizations, including the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Around 1950, Killens co-founded with Rosa Guy and others a writers' group that became the Harlem Writers Guild (HWG).

His first novel, Youngblood (1954), dealing with a black Georgia family in the early 1900s, was read and developed at HWG meetings in members' homes. His second novel, And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), was about the treatment of the black soldiers in the military; it was named by critic Noel Perrin as one of five major works of fiction of World War II. His third novel, Sippi (1967), focused on the voting rights struggles by African Americans during the 1960s.

The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (1971) explored upper-class African-American society. (1971). In addition to novels, Killens also wrote plays, screenplays, and many articles and short stories that appeared in publications as diverse as Black Scholar, the New York Times, Ebony and Redbook.

He taught creative-writing programs at Fisk University, Howard University, Columbia University and Medgar Evers College. In 1986, he founded the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College.

Personal life

In 1943 Killens married Grace Ward Jones. They had two children together: a son, John Charles, and a daughter, Barbara.

In 1987, Killens died of cancer in Brooklyn, NY, aged 71.

Bibliography

Novels

Youngblood (1954), novel

And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), novel

Black Man's Burden (1965), essays

Sippi (1967), novel

The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (1971), novel

Great Gittin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey (1972)

A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man: The Adventures of John Henry (1975)

The Great Black Russian: The Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin (1989)

As editor

Black Southern Voices: an anthology of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and critical essays (Meridian, 1992)

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