Genealogy Presentation

University of Texas at Austin-Community Engagement Center
Saturday June 20, 2015

Music by Rodney Siau

Soul Summit 15: Michael Twitty #169

Collards to Caviar: The Marvelous Migration of African Foodways 

June 20, 2015
Huston-Tillotson Seabrook Chapel

Music by Rodney Siau



Soul Summit 15:  Adrian Miller #170

A career slam with Therese Nelson, Tamara Raye Stevenson, Elle Simone, Helen Roberts, Andrea Roberts, and Caroline Randall Williams

June 20, 2015
Huston-Tillotson Seabrookl Chapel

Music by Rodney Siau

Soul Summit 15: Reclaiming Our Images Panel #171

Hot Grease podcast host & executive producer gives her most memorable  Soul Summit 2015 (an inaugural gathering focused on black foodways) moments. 

Music: 
Macon Street Blues | Rodney Siau 
Manufactured Consent (Cheney’s Got a Gun)| Mamarazzi

Episode sponsored by Heritage Radio Network

Highlights: Soul Summit '15 | A Conversation about Race & Food #172

Toni Tipton Martin is the author of The Jemima Code: Two 
Centuries of African American Cookbooks. She is the force behind Soul Summit which features the black culinary world's finest and brightest.

Music: 
Macon Street Blues | Rodney Siau 
Pleasant Moments | composed by Scott joplin, performed by Gerlz


We Free | The Jemima Code: Toni Tipton Martin #173

Early on, I was shown the lush goodness of my hometown — Athens, Georgia — and tasted the angry backwash flowing through the city. My home house is on the east side, right off the former Water Street corridor, among the simple, manicured, ranch homes, where you can faintly hear the University of Georgia’s Redcoat Band playing the fight song. The neighborhood was also ground zero for unrecognized acts of bravery and sacrifice that are rarely spoken. 

I was raised next door to the late Mrs. Miriam Moore. An activist for the poor and forgotten enclaves “across the river,” Mimi was an accidental witness to an occurrence that still drips from the mouths of certain locals. In the summer of 1964, she was a dishwasher at Open House Restaurant (local hangout for the guys in white robes) and would later testified against the two fellows that cut Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn’s life short. The tales of gross murder and integration are intertwined, and hatred fueled a beautiful movement that deserves more than tiny footnotes.

This audio piece unclogs the drains and helps us float upstream.

Music in this column was composed and performed by Odetta Hartman. 
This piece was first published on bittersoutherner.com

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