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KIAJA MCCABE Guest Columnist If I had to describe my journey in one word: extraordinary. I’ve had so many blessings, especially during my time at the University of Tennessee.

In high school, I had no desire to become a journalist, I just knew that I loved basketball and loved entertaining people (I was in theater all four years of high school). So, coming to UTK and becoming a Journalism and Electronic Media major, I definitely was intimidated at first. After being apart of The Volunteer Channel (TVC) for two semesters and joining the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), I finally loosened up and

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ta Hawks and Falcons games. Looking back on my college career, I’m extremely blessed with the opportunities I’ve had. I’m so ready to experience more of life and start my career within sports journalism.

Kiaja McCabe / Contributor Kiaja McCabe is a senior majoring in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at kmccabe5@vols.utk.edu.

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was ready to really dive into the journalism world.

I started a freelance internship sophomore year with ESPNU Campus Connection. From there I interned with WATE Six On Your Side Sports and got a job with VFL Films around the same time. Though my peak of it all was last summer, I got the biggest blessing with an internship in New York City with the NBA in their Content department. That was AMAZING! Living in Manhattan and being with the company that I hope to have a career in was just a dream come true. Something I just never thought would come at the age of 21 and a junior in college.

My boss Annette knew I wanted to be a sideline reporter in the long run, so she allowed me to get on camera and do some interviews which I never thought would happen.

On top of that, I was allowed to do interviews at big events like the Draft, WNBA games and Rookie weekend. That was a summer I will never forget, so many great memories.

Now as I approach graduation in May, I’m currently a part of a mentorship program called Rising Media Stars. The co-founder is ESPN analyst LaChina Robinson, and she’s been so amazing by pushing me and the other women in the program towards our goals. I’ve been able to do some reporting at the Atlan-

KARMEN JONES Columnist Black History Month is a time of tribute to those who have contributed to the foundation of America, but as Americans of African descent, we acknowledge our excellence as a heritage that can not be abridged into a singular month. Our history is an infinite and unmeasurable space, but what we do with each present moment is of our own will.

While we confront a past of forced racial subordination, thousands of documented and undocumented lynching and patterns of generational trauma, it is our continuous responsibility to let our rejoicing rise above pain. This task is not unbecoming of our true

essence. Our great people have always lifted their voices to be heard without waiting to be granted permission to do so.

Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Black History Month,” refused to wait for permission to dismantle the miseducation of African American life and history. The son of two Virginian sharecroppers became the second Black man to gain his doctorate degree from Harvard University (after W.E.B. Du Bois) and founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

His zeal for becoming an educating scholar led him into the task of correcting the depictions of who Black people were and unlocking the potential of who we could become.

With the inaccurate images of the submissive Uncle Tom, the hypersexualized Jezebel or the Tragic Mulatta, reinforcing the lie of racial inferiority being of hereditary reasoning, Woodson understood that we must know the truth about our past in order to the possibilities of our future. As Maya Anglelou said, “No person can imagine where he’s going, unless he knows where he’s been.”

In 1926, Dr. Woodson established the first “Negro History Week,” aligned specifically with the birthdays of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincolin. He explained the reality of African Americans being “overlooked, ignored and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use

them.” Decades later, Black students at Kent State University expanded the week into an entire month, and since 1976, the United States government has acknowledged February as Black History Month.

Drawing from that same inspiration, those of us who have been misrepresented should aim for being self-established and celebrate your greatness as a spirit of which history books can not fully expound upon. As we reflect on the ability of African Americans to create and recreate their own narratives through the arts, scholarship and sociopolitical movements, know that you, the Black reader, hold that same power.

Karmen Jones is a junior majoring in English rhetoric with a minor in Africana studies. She can be reached at kjone169@vols.utk.edu.

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Eight UT events happening around Knoxville to celebrate Black History Month JAKE YODER City News Editor

of Douglass, but also that of 19th-century writer and activist Anna Julia Coope. Attendees of the celebration will be served free food and will participate in a transcribe-a-thon of Cooper’s works.

Film Screening: “Hidden Figures” On Thursday Feb. 6, the Campus Events Board will be hosting a free screening of “Hidden Figures.” The Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of three African American women who worked at NASA in the 1960s. The film will be screened from 7 to 9 p.m. at the John C Hodges Library, Room 101 (Lindsay Young Auditorium).

Professor Sekou Franklin: “Not a Horse or an Ox: African Americans and Racial Politics in Tennessee” Professor Sekou Franklin from Middle Tennessee State University is bringing his political knowledge to Knoxville on Friday, Feb. 7. Professor Franklin will be discussing his new book “Losing Power,” which “shows how the divide in values, preferences and voting ttbehaviors between blacks and whites is both one of the causes and one of the consequences of black Tennesseans’ recent loss of political power.”

Art by US “Art by US” is a new art exhibition opening in Gallery 1010 featuring art by African and African American artists. Drop by Gallery 1010 from 6 to 9 p.m. to see some of the best work that the

In a Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney On Feb. 20 and 21 in the Student Union, the College of Arts and Sciences will present a symposium centering around 20th-century African American artists James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney. Presenters will evaluate their works in new and interesting ways, analyzing how they intersect with the culture of their time. The symposium is being held in conjunction with a new exhibit in the Knoxville Museum of Art that also centers around Baldwin and Delaney.

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Frederick Douglass Day Celebration On Friday, Feb. 14, a celebration of legendary abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass will be held in John C. Hodges Library room 209 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The celebration will be held in tandem with a live stream from the Colored Conventions Project and will not only celebrate the life

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of Netflix documentary “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. in John C. Hodges Library’s Lindsey Young Auditorium. The film focuses on the life and work of Marsha P. Johnson, a gay activist and prominent figure in the Stonewall riots of 1969.

Fleming-Morrow Lecture in African American History Tiffany M. Gill from the University of Delaware is making her way to Knoxville Thursday, Feb. 27 to give a lecture entitled “The World is Ours, Too: Black Women, Global Activism and the New Black Travel Movement.” The lecture will focus on the rise of African American tourism in the post-WWII era and how the recent Black Lives Matter movement has led to similar results. The lecture will be held in Strong Hall room 101 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Black and LGBTQ+ at UT: A Moderated Panel In a discussion hosted by the Pride Center, black members of the LGBTQ+ community will share their experiences with finding and building community at UT. The panel is meant to serve as a space to discuss advocacy and action in support of the Black LGBTQ+ community in Knoxville. The discussion will take place in Student Union room 262 A/B from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center celebrates its 100th year CAROLINE JORDAN Managing Editor The mission of the YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center is simple: to eliminate racism and empower women.

In recent years though, Director of the YWCA PWC Kathy Mack has extended that mission to eliminating racism and empowering all people.

“At the YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center we have a very unique opportunity to empower young people daily in our after-school extended learning setting — and that’s middle and high school boys and girls — so it’s interesting, but our mission with the YWCA as a whole is to empower women and eliminate racism,” Mack said. “And how we are doing that is we are doing the day-to-day work. People ask us all the time if we only serve women, but no, it’s man, woman, boy and girl.”

In addition to the center’s after-school assistance, it also acts as a full community center open Monday through Sunday, hosting birthday parties, wedding showers and bridal showers to provide unique services for the community.

With 2020 already underway, the PWC celebrates 100 years of serving the East Knoxville

community this year. Festivities include Diversity Day, Be Kind Day and a homecoming celebration later in the calendar year.

Mack harped on the longevity of the Center and the strides of change it has made in the community.

“That’s a long time. I tell people, ‘I don’t know anything that’s 100 years old and still moving.’ So one of the things that we always say is that a lot of things have changed over the last 100 years and are no longer vital, but the Phyllis Wheatley Center has remained, and that’s one of the things that we take a lot of pride in,” Mack said.

Diversity Day took place on Jan. 18 at the PWC in efforts to engage with members of the Knoxville community and celebrate diversity and make a stand against racism. Over 200 participants registered to run in the Race Against Racism 5K one-mile walk.

To celebrate Black History Month, the PWC is hosting a unique rendition of a Valentine’s Day party on Feb. 13.

“We’re going to celebrate all-month-long Black History, but we also want to do a ‘Be Kind’ movement. Instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day, we’re going to do a ‘Be Kind Day,’ and that’s going to be interesting in our setting when you deal with young people in the community ... So getting them to understand that

there’s nothing in this world you could do, and be successful at it, if you don’t be kind to others,” Mack said.

The PWC was created as a place of empowerment for six African American women in 1920, a time when the United States was still segregated. The goal was to create a place for them to grow, to go, to be developed and to be empowered.

In the past 100 years, the PWC has opened its arms to all people regardless of race, gender, age or socio-economic class.

“We don’t want it to be noted that we’re just celebrating 100 years, but that it’s still a movement and that it’s not just a black thing. It’s not just a white thing — it’s an everybody thing,” Mack said, at the Diversity Day celebration.

The PWC also hosts an after-school program for middle and high school students Monday through Friday, whose mission is to promote a sense of family and community by acknowledging where each child comes from.

“So when kids come to the Center today, they feel like they’re coming home because we see them when they come through the door, we acknowledge them, we love on them and we meet them where they are,” Mack said.

Located in East Knoxville, the PWC sits in a food desert zone, meaning that the closest grocery store is miles away. As a way to bring fresh

produce into the lives of young people, the PWC planted a community garden in 2017.

“So one of the reasons why it was so important to us to have that garden at the Phyllis Wheatley Center is for every new face that comes in that door we plant a seed. We might not be the ones to see it flourish to its full potential, but we expect a harvest from every kid we sow a seed in,” Mack said.

To prepare for the first harvest, community members planted okra, cabbage, carrots and greens so that when they sprouted, children were in awe that they could take it right out of the ground and into their kitchens.

Mack also emphasized that the harvest process provided a learning opportunity for the after-school program saying, “Everything we do in that facility is a teaching moment.”

For students looking to get involved with the PWC through internships or volunteer work, Mack said that students can help in three ways: with their time, their talent and their treasure.

In their search for volunteers, Mack said, “I also always tell volunteers or interns when they come to the Phyllis Wheatley Center that it is an opportunity that will make you a better person, and you can’t afford to pass up on it.”

Alpha Kappa Alpha prepares to celebrate 50th anniversary ALEXANDRA DEMARCO Campus News Editor

In December 1970, the first black Greekletter organization was established on UT’s campus. Now, nearly 50 years later, the Zeta Delta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority continues to act as a force which empowers UT’s community of young black women and works to improve the community as a whole.

The group is also preparing to celebrate their half-a-century spent at UT. Aside from just the UT chapter, AKA has a long and record-breaking history throughout the country. The sorority is the first national Greek-letter organization to be created by collegiate African American women.

After AKA changed history by becoming UT’s first black Greek-letter organization, several other sororities and fraternities followed in the chapter’s footsteps.

Known as the “Divine Nine,” UT’s other black Greek-letter organizations include Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Zeta Phi Beta sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, Iota Phi Theta fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Omega Psi Phi fraternity and Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

At the moment, UT is in the process of constructing nine monuments dedicated to the

organizations and the National Pan-Hellenic Council, their governing body,. The structures will be located off of Johnson-Ward Pedestrian Walkway.

Junior Carmen Danley is currently serving as AKA’s president. She explained that at the root of her sorority’s philosophy is the desire to aid the community and provide a reliable network among young black women.

“I think my favorite parts [of AKA] are just being able to have a sisterhood and a network of like-minded women who are striving for excellence and who are really involved in the community and personal development,” Danley said.

Senior Taylor Washington is another member of AKA who served as the chapter’s president before Danley. She echoed similar sentiments about her experience in the organization.

“It’s been the biggest learning experience, not just in terms of seeing how an international organization works, but also just from a leadership development standpoint and a personal development standpoint,” Washington said.

Washington also cited AKA’s service outreach efforts as the most important part of the organization. She explained that, unlike many other Greek sororities, AKA’s international president periodically changes which philanthropy the group puts its service work into,

allowing the sorority to make a broad impact.

“For me, the most important thing we do is serve others,” Washington said.

Danley stated that she thinks it’s important to celebrate big university milestones such as AKA’s 50th anniversary, noting that UT seems to have an affinity for celebrating big dates.

Last semester, the university engaged in extensive celebrations for UT’s 225th anniversary and also created the motto “Lighting the Way” to celebrate the event throughout the school year.

Danley added that she thinks it’s especially essential for UT to celebrate anniversaries for minority associations, such as AKA. “[We] have been putting out great programming, great service and developing great women throughout this time, so I think that it’s really important to acknowledge that and have the support of the university behind that,” Danley said.

In terms of specific anniversary celebrations, no events are set in stone, but Danley anticipates that Homecoming will prove the most celebratory time of the year for the organization. She expects that many AKA alumni will travel to Knoxville during Homecoming because of the group’s golden anniversary, and she’s looking forward to getting to know the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha past.

“We just plan to be able to bond with [the

alumni] and just show them what we’ve done over the years since they’ve been gone, show them around campus,” Danley said.

Washington, who will graduate from UT in May, is planning on returning this fall to celebrate AKA’s Homecoming and 50th anniversary as an alumna of the chapter.

“Everybody’s a little timid about coming back that first year after you graduate, but I’ll definitely be back to see our 50th,” Washington said.

Washington added that when reflecting on AKA’s longevity at UT, she is particularly proud that her sorority paved the way for the Divine Nine to make their way onto UT’s campus.

“Knowing that we’ve been on UT’s campus for 50 [years] just kind of blows your mind, but it also just points to the deeper history of Tennessee and the deeper history of East Tennessee, and so it’s really nice to know that we were the first to be on campus but also the ones to open the door to allow the rest of the Divine Nine organizations to get here and to start serving the community,” Washington said.

Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha will be networking with other AKAs from across the region at the end of February during the 88th South Eastern Regional Conference, which will be hosted right here in Knoxville.

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Tennessee football legend Lester McClain carries on legacy over 50 years later RYAN SCHUMPERT Sports Editor

Lester McClain spent hours of his childhood serving as a civil rights protestor in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

Attending a Nashville city high school in the mid-60s, McClain and his classmates dealt with racism while protesting in the city because, “you believed in it, not because anyone told you too.”

It was a fitting experience for the young McClain who would turn from civil rights protestor to activist just a few years later, when he became the first African American football player at his home state’s flagship university.

McClain would graduate from high school in 1967 and headed 180 miles east to attend the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Freshmen weren’t eligible to play until 1969, so McClain spent his first season in Knoxville watching instead of playing.

The team thrived during McClain’s freshman season going 9-2, including 6-0 in SEC play, on its way to the No. 2 ranking in the final AP poll. McClain credits the team’s success for making the process of desegregation

easier.

“I didn’t know it then, but as I look back, it was so important during that time to walk in and have a chance to be on a winning team,” McClain said in an interview with Tennessee athletics in 2018. “You come in and desegregate, and not being on a winning team would not have been fun.”

Tennessee would open the 1968 season against Georgia where McClain became the first African American to play in a game at Tennessee. McClain would make a splash in his debut catching a crucial fourth down pass as the Vols tied the future SEC Champions, 17-17.

“I remember getting into the game and getting the chance to just play a little bit,” he said. “It got to a crucial time of the game. We were behind, actually. It was fourth-downand-long, and I’m a sophomore and Bubba (Wyche) threw that fourth-down pass to me.

I made a first down, and we went from there to tie the ball game.”

McClain would catch 29 passes for 329 yards and six touchdowns in his sophomore season before ending his career with 1,003 yards and 10 touchdowns.

McClain would get drafted in the ninth round by the Chicago Bears, but he would never play a game in the NFL. While at Ten-

Lester McClain, 1968 / Courtesy of UT Athletics nessee, McClain was teammates with current Tennessee director of athletics Phillip Fulmer.

Even 50 years later Fulmer recalls the impact McClain made as the first African American to play at the University of Tennessee, blazing the trail for hundreds of athletes.

“His leadership and the example he set as he helped Tennessee break the race barrier was extraordinary,” Fulmer said in a university release in 2018. “I have read some of the things he went through, and I naively did not know it (at the time) because Lester was simply being Lester — leading, working hard and showing us the way it was supposed to be done as a teammate and friend.”

McClain now resides in Nashville where he and his wife Virginia have four children. McClain works for State Farm as an insurance agent.

McClain has enjoyed coming back to his alma mater and watching his former teammates have success. McClain has been honored as a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, the Tennessee Athletics Hall of Fame.

“Seeing other players do well are my favorite memories, like Phillip for instance,” McClain said. “He went from being a player to a coach, to the head coach to winning a national championship. He is a first-class guy.

His success means a lot to all of us. Anytime you have a former player that does well, you all feel good about it. He bleeds orange blood.”

Conredge Holloway Jr. and the barriers he broke for African Americans RYAN CREWS Sports Editor

Condredge Holloway Jr. made history when he took the field as the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers football team in the fall of 1972. As the first African American starting quarterback in the SEC, Holloway helped to pave the way for African American quarterbacks across the southeastern United States.

Holloway was born in Huntsville, Alabama and graduated from Lee High School in Huntsville. In 1971, Holloway was drafted fourth overall by the Montreal Expos as a shortstop.

At the time Holloway was 17, which was too young to sign a contract under Alabama law.

However, his mother preferred that he attend college and as such, refused to sign the contract on his behalf. As a result, Holloway decided to attend the University of Tennessee, where he started for both the Vols’ football and baseball teams.

Holloway was a highly-touted quarterback recruit, wanted by teams across the nation, but his home state’s flagship school was not one of them. The former governor of Alabama George Wallace told legendary coach Bear

Bryant that Alabama was not ready for a black quarterback. Bryant had no choice but to pass this message along to Holloway, so the Huntsville native decided to look elsewhere to play the position he loved.

At Tennessee, Holloway found in head coach Bill Battle a man who was committed to playing the best player at every position, no matter the race — a stance the young quarterback had to respect.

During his freshman year, Holloway played on the freshman team, since 1971-72 was the last season that freshman football players were ineligible for varsity. However, Vols fans were excited for Holloway, as the freshman team drew 31,000 fans for a matchup with Notre Dame’s freshman squad.

When Holloway took the starting job in 1972, he had big shoes to fill following an 11-1 Sugar Bowl winning season by Tennessee.

However, Holloway answered the bell, going 10-2 and finishing off the season with a win in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.

Holloway led the Vols to the upper echelons of the college football sphere, finishing No. 11 in the UPI Coaches Poll and No. 8 in the Associated Press Poll.

Holloway finished out his college career 15-7-2 in his final two seasons. During that time, Tennessee played in two bowl games,

winning one. For his career, Holloway finished with 3,102 yards and 18 touchdowns on 238 completions through the air.

On the ground, he rushed for 966 yards and nine touchdowns in 351 attempts. In football, Holloway was named to both the All-SEC and All-America teams in 1975. He finished with a .383 batting average and still holds the Vols record hitting streak with 27 games.

Although he was a trailblazer, social issues weren’t on Holloway’s mind at the time.

“It was a matter of winning over the confidence of my teammates, and just going out and playing,” Holloway said.

“We had a ball; we had a good time. And all the outside distractions, it never got into our team … we didn’t allow it to. Our focus was trying to win ball games and trying to be the best we could be. And all the social issues could be handled by someone else.”

Holloway would go on to play 13 years in the CFL after college. He was drafted by the New England Patriots, but the Patriots selected him as a defensive back so Holloway decided to go north of the border where he could play quarterback.

Playing for three different teams, Holloway was a two-time Grey Cup champion and the 1982 CFL Most Outstanding Player.

Since Holloway debuted, African Ameri-

can quarterbacks have thrived in the SEC, with examples like Cam Newton and Jalen Hurts leading their teams to SEC and national championships.

All 14 teams in the SEC have now had African American starting quarterbacks at some point in their history.

Tennessee in particular has had many players follow in Holloway’s path, including Tee Martin, Josh Dobbs and current starting quarterback Jarrett Guarantano.

Holloway was able to experience his legacy firsthand, as he was actually on staff for the Vols during the 1997 season, when Martin led Tennessee to the SEC and national championships.

The progress since the days when Holloway first started can be seen when looking at this coming year’s starting quarterbacks in the conference. Of the 14 schools in the SEC, six of the projected starting quarterbacks are African American.

Holloway’s impact as the first African American starting quarterback in the SEC will continue to be felt for years to come.

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Celebrating the friendship, artistic works of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney GABRIELA SZYMANOWSKA Editor-in-Chief

A friendship that would last a lifetime, a bond that would transcend history and creative works which continue to inspire generations later. This is the legacy of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney, two friends whose work will be highlighted and celebrated at UT later in February.

The UT Humanities Center will host “In a Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney” from Feb. 19 through Feb. 21, 2020. The symposium will feature 23 guest speakers according to the “In a Speculative Light” website. Over the course of the symposium, four artists will create a set of portraits, similar to Delaney’s portraits of Baldwin, of guest speakers in a pop-up studio in the Student Union which will be open to the public.

Katherine Chiles, associate professor of English and Vice Chair of Africana Studies, explained the importance of UT having such a conference.

“It would be difficult to overstate the prestige of this important conference. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the symposium will feature many of the top scholars in African American literary and cultural studies from across the country,” Chiles said. “Getting these folks together in a room to talk about James Baldwin — one of the foremost Black writers of the twentieth century — and Beauford Delaney, a Knoxvillian by birth, will be simply amazing.”

The symposium aims to “create new knowledge about black arts history by looking closely, for the first time, at work by writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney, friends who were among the greatest 20th-century

black American artists,” according to the UT Humanities Center website.

Director of the Humanities Center and Lindsay Young Professor of English Amy Elias volunteered to host the symposium at UT as part of the “Delaney Project.” The project brings people together to promote and celebrate the artwork of Knoxville native Delaney.

“Delaney was such a prominent figure in his time. It is stunning that he needs to be remembered in a way. So there is a prong that is about being excited for resuscitating and keeping alive great art in our time,” Elias said. “There’s also a prong about history itself and that our culture is a culture that lives in the present. And we increasingly forget how much study of the past and simple remembrance of connections — to people, to places, to histories — help us to know ourselves.”

“We are the accumulations of the breaths and thoughts and lives and molecules of the people who come before us,” Elias added. “So it’s very important to understand these artists as voices that continue to speak to us and continue to form us.”

Delaney, born in 1901, showed talent in drawing; at the age of 16 he left home for Boston where he attended classes at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the South Boston School of Art, according to the Smithsonian American Art Museum website.

In 1929 Delaney moved to New York City, residing in Harlem and later Greenwich Village. Inspired by jazz and blues music, Delaney painted portraits of musicians like Ella Fitzgerald and Charlie Parker.

Delaney met Baldwin in 1940 in New York.

At the time, Baldwin was just 15 years old and would come to look upon Delaney as a mentor, a father figure and as a friend.

Portrait of James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney Courtesy of Amanda Womac / Contributor Baldwin, born in 1924 in New York, was a prominent writer, speaker and national activist during the Civil Rights era. Baldwin’s best sellers “Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son” and ”The Fire Next Time” portrayed how observant he was about the world around him.

In addition, Baldwin’s work still holds relevance to today’s Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ+ community and social justice movements, as he wrote about Black radical resistance during his time and from the perspective of being an “out” gay man.

Baldwin and Delaney would remain close friends until Delaney’s death in 1979, with Baldwin passing away eight years later in 1987.

And while experts can’t speak about Bald-

win’s and Delaney’s thoughts on their work being discussed in a new light in 2020, Elias said that both were interested in waking people up to the urgency of the world.

“I know Baldwin wanted people to wake up. He was dedicated to the idea that racial oppression, oppression in any form stunted people. It stunted both the oppressor and the oppressed,” Elias said. “Delaney was less vocal about social justice issues but was, throughout his life, very well known for inspiring others to see the world differently in ways that allowed them to see truth and beauty beneath the surface or even in the surface of things.”

Elias pointed to a story by Baldwin about one of the first times he had met Delaney which shows how both of them looked beyond the surface reality.

“They’re walking down a walkway in the city, and they stopped at a corner and looked down, and Beauford Delaney pointed to a puddle in the road and said, ‘Look at that.’ And Baldwin at first just saw a puddle — just a dirty little puddle in the street. Delaney said, ‘look again,’ and there was a little bit of oil on the top of the puddle. Suddenly, Baldwin saw the colors that were swirling in the oil,” Elias said.

“So this is a dirty puddle with dirty oil on a dirty street and yet, Delaney was able to see something else there. And that ability of artists to see beyond surface reality to make meaning out of it is very much part of his vision as well.”

On Wednesday, February 5 at 6:30 p.m., Hodges Library will play “I Am Not Your Negro,” a film written by James Baldwin and directed by Raoul Peck, in the Lindsay Young Auditorium in preparation for the symposium.

The viewing will be free and open to the public.

Frieson Black Cultural Center: A historic student resource for diversity CALISTA BOYD Copy Chief In 2002, the Frieson Black Cultural Center was opened, designed to be a resource available to all students, with facilitating diversity in the campus community a key goal.

The resources available at the Frieson Black Cultural Center include: academic support services, information on minority scholarship opportunities, reservable rooms for meeting spaces and spaces for special events.

To highlight on one of the academic resources, the Center has a book loaning program to help alleviate the costs of purchasing books. Students may take up to two books per semester and return them, free of charge.

This building also hosts the Office of Multicultural Student Life, which is focused on retaining minority students. Some of the or-

ganizations supported by the Office of Multicultural Student Life are the Asian American Association, Brothers United for Excellence, Multicultural Mentoring Program and Sophisticated Queens Unafraid and Driven.

The Frieson Black Cultural Center is aimed to be a place where students can celebrate their identities and experience a community of support and leadership opportunities.

The first version — the 1975 version — of a black cultural center on-campus began as just a small office, only occupying two floors of a residential space. It was funded modestly by the College of Liberal Arts.

Then in 1980, the director was taken away form his positions. This coupled with a need for greater funding made students take matters into their own hand by organizing a sitin — 18 students were arrested from this incident. Then 200 students marched to the Chancellor, and the Black Cultural Center was reopened.

Throughout the years, the Black Cultural Center acquired more and more campus impact by expanding its engagements with students and student organizations.

In 2001, the plans for the now-called Frieson Black Cultural Center were set into action. This was a huge step forward for the University of Tennessee because this was the first on-campus building made specifically for African-American students.

The name “Frieson” was added to the already existing Black Cultural Center because of the large donation two alumni brothers gave towards the facilities. Ron Frieson, president of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation and External Affairs, and Don Frieson, executive vice president of supply chain for Lowe’s, gave the center the large $1 million donation.

Both brothers are from Memphis, Tennessee and experienced what the former Black Cultural Center had to offer when they at-

tended college at UT. Their involvement as donors to the Frieson Black Cultural Center signifies support from past African American students looking forward to the successes of future African American UT students.

Since February is Black History Month, The Frieson Black Cultural Center and the Office of Multicultural Student Life have a full slate of events all throughout this month.

The events range from beauty tips and voter education, to Black LGBTQ+ panel and Black History Silent March — the variety in events is an effort to engage all students with different interests united under the celebrating black history.

You can view the event line up at the Office of Multicultural Student Life’s website .