The Griot Museum of Black History and theHarvard University Commonwealth Project present In the City: Memories of Black Presence. This group exhibition reflects the visual perspectives of six St. Louis photographers and filmmakers who documented relevant places, people, and experiences across the ever-changing city. In this virtual event, the In The City Fellows fuse their voices in dialogue that reveals the individual and collective creative process that helped them discover their own unique connection to the land and life of the city.
Though we could not host a holiday party this year, we did have a small (virtual) social gathering of our various 2020-21 fellow cohorts, including a heady concentration of experts on American religious history. In the spirit of the season in which many people celebrate a range of holidays, we share with the wider community a few notes, some humorous, from that afternoon’s “Sip and Zoom.”
On the reading list: “Christmas in the United States” (or, “What is Christmas?”), by current faculty fellow...