Rebecca GriesbachNov 24, 2020NYT: Coronavirus Tracking ProjectSince 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 GriesbachDec 13, 2017Roy Moore Drowns Us OutRead on The New York Times here. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — At every home game at the University of Alabama, where I am a sophomore, the...
Rebecca GriesbachAug 1, 2018Cash-strapped teachers turn to Facebook, online sites to equip their classroomsRead on Chalkbeat TN here. When teacher Shemena Shivers walked into her Melrose High School science lab for the first time, she couldn’t...
Rebecca GriesbachJul 17, 2018Memphis colleges are training more teachers of color, new study showsRead on Chalkbeat TN here. Teaching degree programs at four-year institutions nationwide are disproportionately white, according to new...
Rebecca GriesbachJul 10, 2018With Man Up, a new Memphis teacher prep program is training, mentoring men of colorRead on Chalkbeat TN here. Patrick Washington has teaching in his blood. Washington’s great-great-grandfather, Richard Adkins, was born a...
Rebecca GriesbachJun 15, 2018What 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...
Rebecca GriesbachFeb 28, 2019History in the Making: A creative solution to segregation in Sumter CountyDarcel 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 RaneyFeb 28, 2019William and Hilary: The hands that built the CapstoneFor 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 StaffJan 20, 2020Dr. Riley Coverage: Breaking News, Features and InvestigationsIn 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 GriesbachJan 20, 2020Investigation: Emails show candidate was offered, quickly terminated from OSM director positionIn 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 GriesbachApr 2, 2019Protestors march to end sexual assault on campusJess 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 GriesbachNov 12, 2017International students discuss barriers to inclusive campus communityIt 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 GriesbachOct 22, 2017ELI takes hits when international enrollment dropsFrannie 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 BollingSep 21, 2017Autherine Lucy Foster's legacy honored with historical markerAutherine 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 GriesbachApr 9, 201921 minExamining anti-Black bias in the Cuban revolutionary pressView a formatted copy here. Abstract As U.S. newsreels showed African Americans fighting for freedom from a Jim Crow South, Cuban...
Rebecca GriesbachNov 30, 201812 minAFTER SLAVERY: A Pop-Up ExhibitFor our final project in Dr. Hilary Green's "Slavery at UA" Blount course, I and three other classmates curated an exhibit on...
Rebecca GriesbachApr 10, 201820 minMOBILIZATION AGAINST RESEGREGATION: A History of Resistance in Black EducationThis was a 20-page literature review that I wrote and presented on for my sophomore significant contribution through the University...
Rebecca GriesbachMay 19, 20172 minHISTORICAL WRITE-UP: Lincoln Normal SchoolIn May of 2017, I and three classmates designed a travel brochure, along with five historical markers to be displayed in Marion,...