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At the urging of a friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten, she gave 97 works to Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville. And she threw in a few of her own. (Time.com)
$7 million a 'bad deal' for O'Keeffe painting, Tennessee attorney general says Apr 12, 2007
-- Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper has halted a proposed deal that would have allowed the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to buy the artist's "Radiator Building -- Night, New York" from Fisk University for $7 million. Since that agreement was announced, the university has been offered up to $25 million for the picture. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Student Leaders Selected to Study Global Environmental Issues through Prestigious Program Apr 11, 2007
Kali Albright, Stanford University; Erin Allen, University of Michigan; Erin Byers, University of Tennessee; Robyn Chaplin, University of Tennessee; Chris Detjen, University of Michigan; Desirae Early, University of California - Berkley; Monique Fahie, Alcorn State University; Gregory Johnson, Tougaloo College; Gregory Lee, Stanford University; Nicole Leung, University of Texas - Austin; Andrew Maggetti, Wayne State University; Ngo Ky, University of California - Berkeley; Tremaine Larel Philips,... (PR Newswire)
Isolation, interaction, community Mar 22, 2007
While she teaches collegiate artists daily at Fisk University, she said she is excited to work with Iowa students. "I am looking forward to their passion and their artistic point of view.". (Daily Iowan, IA)
A Painful Journey To See W.E. B. DuBois Mar 17, 2007
There are also robes from Fisk University, his undergraduate alma mater; Clark Atlanta University (DuBois conducted pioneering research on African-Americans at Atlanta University) and Harvard. There are some other valuable items in this room, including a signed copy of a book from Albert Einstein and original copies of the Crisis magazine, the feisty forerunner of Encore and Emerge magazines, DuBois' study, filled with two walls of his books, does not have climate control or on this day, air... (Atlanta Daily World, GA)
VSU honors legendary women of music Mar 14, 2007
Moore was a 1926 graduate of Fisk University in Nashville, where she was the first recipient of a Juilliard scholarship for music study there. She went on to work at what would become Virginia State University from 1927 until 1972. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Community health was doctor's mission Feb 25, 2007
Horton is now a Nashville resident and retired professor at Fisk University in that city. "I remember him more as a grandfather than a physician," she said. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Alabama Legal Pioneer Dies in Alaska Feb 22, 2007
She graduated from Fisk University in 1935 and then on to the Howard University Law School. She was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1948 and practice law in Montgomery. (WSJA.com, AL)
Pioneer Alaska lawyer Dickerson dies at 94 Feb 22, 2007
Dickerson graduated from Fisk University in 1935, married Henry Dickerson and had triplets, Alfred, John and Chris. She later divorced, and when the boys were 6, she went to Howard University School of Law, becoming one of four women to graduate in her class of '36. (Anchorage Daily News)
Settlement Would Allow Fisk University to Sell 2 Paintings From Its Stieglitz Collection Feb 17, 2007
Fisk University, via Associated Press THEO EMERY NASHVILLE, Feb. 15 ; Fisk University, which has been entangled in a yearlong legal dispute over two prominent paintings in its collection, will be allowed under a settlement to sell the works if no donor can be found to keep them at the university. Over the last year, Fisk, an esteemed but cash-poor historically black university, has been embroiled in a lawsuit over a plan by its president, Hazel O;Leary, to sell the works, ;Radiator Building ;... (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Getting Tuned Up Feb 17, 2007
Other teams in attendance will be Fisk University from Nashville, Tenn. and Grand Valley State from Allendale, Michigan. (Purduesports.com)
O'Keeffe painting involved in modern fight Feb 16, 2007
Their owner, tiny Fisk University, has decided it's too expensive to continue insuring and caring for the paintings, by Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley ... "On the other hand, you ask yourself Do you want two pictures or do you want Fisk University for the next 50 years?' ". (AZCentral -- Business)
Growing Number of Colleges Provide Tuition Aid to AmeriCorps Alums Feb 8, 2007
List of Colleges and Universities that Match the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK University of Arkansas -- Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, AR CA Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA Mills College, Oakland, CA Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA University of Delaware, Newark, DE George Washington University -- School of Public Policy, Washington, DC Southeastern University,... (PR Newswire)
Ubuntu in Motion Feb 1, 2007
Toni Simmons, a black American story teller, who graduated magna cum laude from Fisk University majoring in speech and drama, will appear at the library at 3 p.m. Feb. 4 for a story telling session. Simmons shares stories using rhythms, songs and audience participation to reach her audience, Keener said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Retracing the route to equality Jan 30, 2007
" There have been many previous expeditions to locations where riders were beaten, bloodied and jailed, but this weekend's was likely the largest and most ambitious attempt to keep the history alive. "I don't know that any students have ever had this opportunity before," said Raymond Arsenault, the author of the 2006 book "Freedom Riders," considered an authoritative history. About 100 students from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State University, Fisk University and American Baptist... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lessons learned from trip with Freedom Riders Jan 30, 2007
But when he arrived on the campus of Fisk University in Nashville nearly 50 years ago, the white exchange student from Wisconsin changed his mind after seeing how his black roommate was mistreated. When he would sit at a table, the white people would get up and move. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Students Join Freedom Riders on a History Trip Jan 29, 2007
About 100 students from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State University, Fisk University and American Baptist College accompanied veterans of the civil rights movement, some of whom came close to death in the bloody confrontations over interstate travel in the South. The buses served as rolling classrooms, leaving Nashville early Saturday for Montgomery and arriving in Birmingham on Saturday evening. (The Ledger)
Original Freedom Riders retrace 1961 journey through Alabama Jan 28, 2007
Lewis was sitting next to Jim Zwerg, a white Freedom Rider who arrived at Fisk University in Nashville from Wisconsin as part of a college exchange program. Zwerg said they were warned of the dangers before the trip began. (Shoals TimesDaily)
Redhawks Host Tennessee State In Thursday OVC Action Jan 17, 2007
The Lady Tigers claimed a commanding 79-21 win over Fisk University at home this past Monday night. Leading TSU is sophomore guard/forward Obi Okafor, who has amassed averages of 13. (Gosoutheast.com)
Prayer breakfast honors Martin Luther King Jr. Jan 16, 2007 What made Albert Haynesworth stomp on another player's face? His search for answers has taken him to some surprising places. Jan 4, 2007
LAKE ELSINORE -- In 1967, at the height of the civil rights movement, Rex Wignall was a college sophomore taking part in a student exchange program that sent him to Fisk University, a small black college in Nashville, Tenn. Wignall -- who is white -- recalled Monday during the local NAACP chapter's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day prayer breakfast how he saw for the first time just how bad racial tensions had gotten. (North County Times)
JEFFERSON AWARDAwarded to Jacqueline Rushing Jan 8, 2007
JEFFERSON AWARD / Awarded to Jacqueline Rushing / 'Harriet Tubman is alive in me,' says founder of mentor program. We are the new Underground Railroad. (San Francisco Chronicle)
" By Seth WickershamESPN.com Editor's Note: This story appears in the Jan. 15 edition of ESPN The Magazine. to subscribe to the magazine. Can somebody tell him why he's alone? ESPN the Magazine to subscribe to the magazine.That's all he wants as he sits in front of his locker, still wearing his uniform, the navy-blue polyester caked in dirt, the bottom of his right cleat stained with another man's blood. His heart is racing, his head is spinning, his breathing shallow. He looks around at all the... (ESPN -- Football)
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