WXIA – 11Alive in Atlanta, GA
Dr. McCray discusses her co-authored book about Atlanta Metropolitan State College’s history with the institution’s president, Ingrid Thompson-Sellers, and host Cara Kneer.
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Virtual Talks with A Healing Paradigm Wellness Center
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- “Celebrating the Healing Power of Black Music,” Jul 5, 2024
- “Shirley [Movie Discussion],” May 3, 2024
- “What We Stood For: The Memoir of Deborah Jones,” Mar 1, 2024
- “The Sun Rises in the East [Documentary Discussion],” Jun 2, 2023
- “How We Celebrate the Ancestors,” Nov 4, 2022
- “Protecting the Intellectual Genius of Black Women,” May 6, 2022
- “Pan-Africanism or Perish,” Aug 20, 2021
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WPFW – Pacifica in Washington DC
#UMustLearn, January 14, 2021
Dr. Ayize Sabater and co-host Jamilah Muhammad chat with Drs. Charles McKinney, Kenja McCray, and Obe Lee Jones about discussing the January 6th United States capitol attack in the classroom.
(Show Duration 00:57:50)
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From the bulletin of the Atlanta Branch Association for the Study of African American Life and History
ROOTS & WINGS, Volume 3, Issue 1
“Focus on Atlanta History: An Interview with Dr. Maurice Hobson”
By Dr. Kenja McCray
The University of North Carolina Press published Atlanta Branch ASALH member Maurice J. Hobson’s The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta in November 2017. Using primary documents, oral histories, and pop cultural references, the work complicates the notion of Atlanta as a black mecca fostering African American achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music. The narrative delves into the city’s history as a post-Civil War destination for black migrants, a center of African American education, and a late nineteenth century industrial hub. The book ultimately focuses on a period ranging from the rise of the city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, in the 1970s, through the era of the 1996 Olympic Games. Hobson argues the black political elite helped develop Atlanta into a thriving world-class metropolis, but have also historically bargained with white interests at the expense of working and poor African Americans who elected them.
Maurice J. Hobson is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University. Follow him on Twitter @DrMoHob.
Kenja McCray is an Associate Professor of History at Atlanta Metropolitan State College. Follow her @KRMcCray on Twitter.
Kenja R. McCray, Ph.D 