Just in time for #BlackHistoryMonth, we launched this free audiobook titled "Overcoming," a companion piece to the forthcoming documentary Still Overcoming Film, which tells the story of Almetris Marsh Duren's legacy and UT's early years of integration. bit.ly/3Jyxsv1

Still Overcoming Film 👀

Start with the students. Hold the University Regents accountable.

The endowment has doubled in 2 years.

Beautiful.

Thank you, Sanger Center! @UT_DDCE

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Here's a short clip from our "Overcoming" audiobook (free to download!), which highlights the legacy of Heman Marion Sweatt! #BlackHistoryMonth #UTBlackHistory Still Overcoming Film bit.ly/3Jyxsv1

Still Overcoming Film

To honor Juneteenth. A clip from our documentary on integration at The University of Texas at Austin! Still Overcoming Film My Aunt was the first Black person hired to help integrate the campus in 1956. Almetris Marsh Duren.

The assault on Black student population on PWI campuses is now complete. Black athletes and a less than 1% Black (not 1st Gen African) will be our norm on PWI’s across our country. The intentionality.

Couldn’t leave #Austin without paying respect to Mama Duren, a trailblazer. #BlackHistory #HookEm UT Austin Still Overcoming Film Story Knife @GoreeMarsh alcalde.texasexes.org/2020/09/the-wa…

Black Faculty.

Yikes this is NO GOOD.

Breaking: The University of Texas at Austin has laid off an undetermined number of employees who used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to a Tuesday email from President Jay Hartzell. bit.ly/3IZ4uTD

✴️✴️ UT Austin is sharing very little information about the abrupt firings of staff Claudia E. Dávila C. and across the university. Please contact Lily Kepner if you or staff you know are impacted.

Still Overcoming Film

A lot of those people were helping or have helped us preserve and tell the full story of integration past, present and future. We are saddened to lose such a powerful connection and resource at @utdcce within UT Austin system. Still Overcoming Film

This is what my post production doc Still Overcoming Film, the history of integration at the University of Texas is about!!!!! We are looking for finishing funds. My DMs are open. My producing partner Casey Vandeventer is also still here to chat about the work. We knew back in 2018.