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...
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Chalkbeat (Eight posts reprinted in Tri-State Defender)
Rebecca Griesbach
- Aug 1, 2018
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Jul 17, 2018
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Jul 10, 2018
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Jun 15, 2018
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...
MOSAIC Magazine
Rebecca Griesbach
- Feb 28, 2019
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...
Rebecca Griesbach and Will Raney
- Feb 28, 2019
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....
CW News Staff
- Jan 20, 2020
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Jan 20, 2020
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Apr 2, 2019
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Nov 12, 2017
International students discuss barriers to inclusive campus community
It was a Monday night, and Sakina Dhondia had a test the next day, but she and her friends didn’t come to the third floor of the Ferguson...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Oct 22, 2017
ELI takes hits when international enrollment drops
Frannie James said she’d be terrified if she were still a full-time English as a Second Language instructor. “If I lost my job at The...
Rebecca Griesbach and Jessa Reid Bolling
- Sep 21, 2017
Autherine Lucy Foster's legacy honored with historical marker
Autherine Lucy Foster ended her third day of school in the annex of Graves Hall, where she was holed up for two hours before being...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Apr 9, 2019
- 21 min
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Nov 30, 2018
- 12 min
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- Apr 10, 2018
- 20 min
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...
Rebecca Griesbach
- May 19, 2017
- 2 min
HISTORICAL WRITE-UP: Lincoln Normal School
In May of 2017, I and three classmates designed a travel brochure, along with five historical markers to be displayed in Marion,...