Family and friends remember Fr. Moses Berry, founder of Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum trib.al/Q4Odm0s

At long last, my book arrives April 16 and is available for preorder now! Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History Columbia Univ Press cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered…

.Dorothy Berry on the bizarre and complex history of “Black America”, a theatrical show which saw a Brooklyn park, for the summer of 1895, transform into a replica of a Southern cotton plantation: publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-am… #BlackHistoryMonth

For BHM, finally got the chance to publish a piece on Gotham-Attucks, an influential but short lived Black music publishing firm that produced hits like 'Shine' and 'Nobody'

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One of my cherished friends Liz Sobel sent these photos from when my children and I accompanied her field school out to Father Moses Berry's Museum in Ash Grove, Missouri.
Ricky loved his time out there, as did my daughter.
#Angelson16 #BirthdaysInHeaven 🕊️

Thankful to up//root and we here® for giving me a platform to share what is probably my most read piece. Resharing it in the wake of my father's passing, which happened here, in the house archives built
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Father Moses was a close friend of American religious historian Albert Raboteau. When we moved to the Ozarks, I was delighted to learn of this connection. twitter.com/OzarksWatcher/…

In 2023, MSU inducted Father Moses Berry into the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame for his work as a historian, teacher. news-leader.com/story/news/loc…

A lovely piece from the regional NPR affliate on the life and influence of my dad

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Moses Berry, 1950-2024

My father has passed away this evening, comfortably, in the home his great-grandparents built in 1873. It is a gift to have been raised with enormous love, and to have had enormous love demonstrated time and time again

Kinfolk allows users to view and learn about monuments through augmented reality (AR). mellon.org/grant-story/ne…

Tomorrow! Hybrid UMD College of Information Studies CAFe talk with Dorothy Berry 4pm EST, 'Subject Analysis: Centering Historical Lives in Contemporary Archives,' register here: umd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The number of Christian’s killed in the latest bombing of the assembly hall of the Orthodox church is rising by the minute. Latest reports speaks that the death toll at the moment is close to 40 people.

Here's some highly personal and relevant verse from Solomon of #Gaza , a Christian poet who wrote in Arabic in the early 11th century

Sulaymān al-Ghazzī (Solomon of Gaza) was by far the most popular Christian poet in Arabic before the early modern period. There are now nine copies of his dīwān (poetry collection) in HMML's Reading Room w3id.org/vhmml/readingR…

Statement from the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem:

'The order to evacuate north Gaza and ask 1.1m people, including members of our Christian communities there, to relocate south within 24 hrs will only deepen an already disastrous humanitarian catastrophe.'

1880 entrance gate to the former Pullman Car Company factory and administrative complex, now the Pullman National Historical Park

Frasier in jeans and sneakers, I know why Niles isn't here. He's recovering from his heart attack