Program

Education Programs: Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development Grants

Period of Performance

7/1/2023 - 6/30/2025

Funding Totals

$60,000.00 (approved)
$60,000.00 (awarded)


Southern Reading: Community Workshops on the African American Experience with Southern University

FAIN: ASB-292274-23

HARK (Rodessa, LA 71069-9094)
Rae Phillips (Project Director: November 2022 to present)
Lonnie McCray (Co Project Director: April 2023 to present)

A one-year series of community workshops about the literature of the African American experience

The Southern Reading program will use workshops and discussion groups focused on literary depictions of the African American experience to increase interaction between the HBCU Southern University and the surrounding historically Black communities in Shreveport, Louisiana.