NYT: Coronavirus Tracking Project
Since April of 2020, I have been working with The New York Times to collect coronavirus data from across the country. In May, I was...
REBECCA GRIESBACH
Dr. Riley Coverage: Breaking News, Features and Investigations
In September of 2019, I was part of a team that broke national news about Dr. Jamie Riley, UA's freshly hired dean of students and one of...
Investigation: Emails show candidate was offered, quickly terminated from OSM director position
In the summer of 2019, I was part of a team that conducted an investigation into the hiring and firing of a potential administrator who...
Examining anti-Black bias in the Cuban revolutionary press
View a formatted copy here. Abstract As U.S. newsreels showed African Americans fighting for freedom from a Jim Crow South, Cuban...
Protestors march to end sexual assault on campus
Jess Tomlinson doesn’t want to be called a survivor. “For me, when you attribute [the term] to a whole community of people, the rhetoric...
History in the Making: A creative solution to segregation in Sumter County
Darcel Green didn’t think much of her quiet life in the small, West Alabama town of Livingston, until she took a car ride with her high...
William and Hilary: The hands that built the Capstone
For the last five years as a history professor at The University of Alabama, Dr. Hilary Green has been searching for a man named William....
AFTER SLAVERY: A Pop-Up Exhibit
For our final project in Dr. Hilary Green's "Slavery at UA" Blount course, I and three other classmates curated an exhibit on...
Cash-strapped teachers turn to Facebook, online sites to equip their classrooms
Read on Chalkbeat TN here. When teacher Shemena Shivers walked into her Melrose High School science lab for the first time, she couldn’t...
Memphis colleges are training more teachers of color, new study shows
Read on Chalkbeat TN here. Teaching degree programs at four-year institutions nationwide are disproportionately white, according to new...
With Man Up, a new Memphis teacher prep program is training, mentoring men of color
Read on Chalkbeat TN here. Patrick Washington has teaching in his blood. Washington’s great-great-grandfather, Richard Adkins, was born a...
What would these students tell newly-trained teachers? 'Be woke'
Read on Chalkbeat TN here. Respect for others, being resourceful, and confronting biases are among the lessons four high-school-age...
MOBILIZATION AGAINST RESEGREGATION: A History of Resistance in Black Education
This was a 20-page literature review that I wrote and presented on for my sophomore significant contribution through the University...
Roy Moore Drowns Us Out
Read on The New York Times here. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — At every home game at the University of Alabama, where I am a sophomore, the...
Tuscaloosa homeschoolers form community at King's Co-op
In the seconds before class started, Julie Jacobs scanned the second-story youth room in a mild panic. Someone left their Bible on the...