Author: Gaby Hale

Kache’ Attyana Mumford is a poet, writer, therapist, and actor from Jacksonville, Florida. She is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s African American history and culture short-term fellowship.  “O Black Slave Singer, gone, forgot, unfamed. You alone in the long, long line of those who’ve sung untaught, unknown, unnamed have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.”  — The Book of American Negro Read More …

Alexandra Nicome is a 2025-2026 recipient of the Billops-Hatch Fellowship, which supports researchers working in the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives. Among its various holdings, the Billops-Hatch archives has more than 1,200 play scripts written by African Americans, 1,400 interviews with various artists, and a library of rare and unique books and periodicals.  Read More …

Emily Hawk is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Dickinson College. Her research examines Black modern dance as a form of intellectual and political life in the twentieth century United States. She earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History at Columbia University and previously served as postdoctoral research associate in African American Studies at Princeton Read More …

Casey Johnson is a PhD student in Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies department. He was the 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s Marcus Garvey Foundation Research Fellowship. As I made my way to Emory University’s campus, weaving through surrounding hills of historic homes and a lush green golf course I Read More …

Kaylen Smith is a History Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. Her dissertation explores the transition from the modern civil rights movement into the Black Power era through the lens of religious expression and activism. Kaylen received a Stuart A. Rose Library Short-Term fellowship to study the Vincent A. Harding papers and the Rosemarie Freeney Harding Read More …