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👋 MAGIC AND MORTAL
Stories of magic
resistance,
and ,ortal
persistence
- Cultural Journey
Magic and mortal
A compelling praisesong to Black women across generations.
She calls their names, captures their significance,
and we are moved and inspired.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Founding Director of Spelman College’s Women’s Research & Resource Center and Anna J. Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies.
This offering, captures, connects, and convinces as it artfully frames promise and pain, happiness and hollowness, test and testimony. She moves us, unapologetically, through decades of our now to our next!
— Patricia Russell-McCloud, Esq., International Motivational Speaker
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Founding Director of Spelman College’s Women’s Research & Resource Center and Anna J. Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies.
This offering, captures, connects, and convinces as it artfully frames promise and pain, happiness and hollowness, test and testimony. She moves us, unapologetically, through decades of our now to our next!
— Patricia Russell-McCloud, Esq., International Motivational Speaker
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blackness, magic, and mortal persistence
Is an introduction to my poetic voice as a historian and storyteller. Celebrating the nuanced facets of my Black girlhood, womanhood, and Caribbeanness, I endeavor to guide you, as readers, on a journey through the making of historically-Black institutions and their contributions toward cultural identity.
Blackness magic, mortality, and triumph
Personal triumph; collective joy, death; grief; and everything in between. Blackness is both a magical resistance and a mortal persistence, and this, in my first book of what will hopefully be many, I leave it all on the pages.
- Personal Triumph Journey
- Collective Joy Moments
- Death And Grief
- Magical Resistance Stories
- Mortal Persistence Reflections
- Heritage Identity Celebration
- Roles + responsibilities
next to god we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”
- Founding director
Mary mcleod bethune institute For the study of women and girls
As director, deGregory serves the most senior position of the Mary McLeod Bethune Institute for Women and Girls, a campus unit that addresses women and girls’ unique needs in the American experience and beyond. Included in its foci are identifying challenges to gender equity at Bethune-Cookman University as well as crafting research and programmatic initiatives that seek redress for the preponderance of hurdles to success faced more widely by women and girls. deGregory’s responsibilities include day-to-day management of The Bethune Institute’s priorities include envisioning, developing and growing its mission and vision; coordinating major programming events and ongoing programming activities; facilitating women and girls-affirming leadership development; and managing all staff, student interns and/or graduate assistants. Additionally, she directs collaboration across departments and divisions in service to the Institute’s mission and vision.
- EXECUTIVE EDITOR
EXECUTIVE EDITOR HBCUstory
Founded in 2012, HBCUstory serves as an advocacy initiative with a mission to, “preserve, present and promote inspiring stories of the historically Black college and university (HBCU) community’s past and present, for our future.” HBCUstory’s goals are threefold: first, to curate — popularizing existing historical and contemporary facts about HBCUs; second, to cultivate — to encourage new and groundbreaking research on HBCUs; and finally, to distribute — to develop a respected publication and promotional platform to launch discourse and share new ideas.
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- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dorian and Beyond
Founded in 2021, Dorian and Beyond is a digital storytelling + story-keeping project that records and preserves interviews with survivors of Hurricane Dorian. Its oral history archive is accessible to interested members of the public via the project’s website. This curation responds to the urgent need to ensure that these stories are not lost. These individual testimonies constitute a collective memory, affirming a shared sense of trauma and loss as well as resilience. The personal, in this way, becomes public; and the individual is affirmed. This collection of stories is intended to be a cross-section of Bahamians who experienced Hurricane Dorian; it pays particular attention to survivors who were on The Abacos and Grand Bahama when the storm hit.
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