The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write

Henry Dumas was a gifted poet and fiction writer who was killed in 1968. Since then, my father (and now I) have executed Henry Dumas's estate. Listen as I lead my father and his good friend, renowned poet Quincy Troupe in a conversation about Dumas and how Quincy's friendship with Toni Morrison helped to propel Dumas's work into the public sphere.

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NEW Preserving Our Family Elders’ Stories  COURSE ALERT!

Womanist/Feminist Approaches To Community Archives And Memory Keeping

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Join me for this INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY ARCHIVES Learning Experience.

An intensive accessible for all learning levels specific to what community archiving is and some fun ways to preserve history.

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What topics will be covered?

- How long has the concept of archiving existed? What are some early examples?

- What distinguishes womanist or feminist archives and archiving? What are some current archives and how can we access them?

- How has your family already been archiving and how might you assemble archival materials?

- How do you preserve stories and make a podcast out of them?

- What are some non traditional archives?

- How might we extend this class to support each other going forward?

- So much more!

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Culture Keeping: Womanist/Feminist Approaches To Community Archives And Memory Keeping

Instructor: @[email protected]

Online zoom/interactive

SUNDAY | March 24

5PM CST

* All classes will be recorded and available for later viewing and access.

REGISTER: https://thecommunityarchive.org/shop/

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Most people don't know that I didn't meet my dad in person until I was 11 years old. Why? Listen and find out!

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The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

If you would like to learn to podcast or you have your own elders' stories you'd like to record contact Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond here:

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Audio Essay: “The Ghost of Henry Dumas”

Our beloved Henry Dumas was shot & killed by a NYC transit cop in 1968. Since then my father has lovingly edited the work he left behind. I am my father’s daughter. Here an audio essay of the print version I published in the Yale Review.

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New Podcast! Sankofa For Henry Dumas

Today marks 58 years since Henry Dumas was shot to death at the age of 33 by a New York City Transit Police officer. My father, Eugene Redmond, met Henry Dumas in 1967 when he became a teacher-counselor and director of language workshops at Southern Illinois University's Experiment in Higher Education, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Dumas’s riveting story is one rescued from ultimate tragedy by the love of his friend, Eugene Redmond. Presently I am the Post Doctoral Fellow of Literary Executorship for the Henry Dumas and Eugene B. Redmond estate.

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My 84 year old Dad is a Black Arts Movement poet. The Black Arts Movement was the artistic component of the Black Power Movement. Black Studies was the academic response to the Black Power Movement. In this episode, we finish our discussion of how he came to be an architect of Black Studies in U.S. universities.

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn’t write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

If you would like to support our mission to center ”Poetry, Pedagogy, and Justice” make a donation via our patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/FannieLouHamerHouse

My 83 year old Dad is a Black Arts Movement poet. The Black Arts Movement was the artistic component of the Black Power Movement. Black Studies was the academic response to the Black Power Movement. In this episode, my Dad discusses how he came to be an architect of Black Studies in U.S. universities.

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The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

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If you would like to support the continuity of this podcast, get on our exclusive list for creatives who earn FREE gifts and more on our website at:

http://femininepronoun.com/

If you would like to support our mission to center ”Poetry, Pedagogy, and Justice” make a donation via our patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/FannieLouHamerHouse

#podcast #oralhistory #BAM #BlackLivesMatter

New Podcast! “How A Poet Heals At 83”.

My superhero of an 83 year old Dad is out of rehab and back home! In this episode we talk about what healing looks like now.

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The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

#podcast #oralhistory #BAM #BlackLivesMatter

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If you would like to support the continuity of this podcast, get on our exclusive list for creatives who earn FREE gifts and more on our website at:

http://femininepronoun.com/

My superhero of an 83 year old Dad is presently recovering from back surgery in a rehab facility. In this episode we talk about how he wound up here and what his goals for healing are.

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The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

#podcast #oralhistory #BAM #BlackLivesMatter

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In the words of the great American poet Gwendolyn Brooks: "We are each other's business; we are each other's harvest; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

In this episode my dad details some of the many jobs he had and how he moved from laborer to academic. He also shares how his income was always a communal offering to his family. As he reveals how his ingenuity placed him in better and better positions financially, he never fails to center his family and the ways his success was all of our success.

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

If you would like to support the continuity of this podcast, get on our exclusive list for creatives who earn FREE gifts and more on our website at:

http://femininepronoun.com/

#podcast #oralhistory #BAM #BlackLivesMatter

In 1966, SIUE officially began an East St. Louis special program named “Experiment in Higher Education” (EHE). This program was established through federal funding and provided financial support to disadvantaged students for their first two years of college. This was my dad's first teaching job. This is where he received crucial mentoring and set collegial patterns in motion that would characterize his entire career. Community mindedness, serving Black learners, developing curriculums and programs designed to build not just the knowledge base of students, but the self-esteem and character, were all lessons my dad took from EHE. Listen as he takes us back to his days as a novice teacher in East St. Louis, Illinois.

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.