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‘Listening for Blackness’: a new exhibit at the Givens Collection explores what it means to ‘sound Black’

Addison Cox doesn’t believe listening is passive. A cafe’s background music, the chime of the…

Adria CarpenterMay 5, 2025

Current Exhibits Givens Collection

Listening for Blackness in the Archie Givens Collection of African American Literature

“Listening for Blackness,” by Addison Cox is on exhibit at the Givens Collection of African…

Karen Carmody-McIntoshApril 16, 2025

Givens Collection News

Piecing together the lives of formerly enslaved people

When Michaela Day went to elementary school in the late 1980s, she saw a few…

Adria CarpenterMarch 7, 2024

Givens Collection News Read This Book!Video

‘A Darker Wilderness’ reviewed on Read This Book!

Davu Underwood Seru discussed with Lisa Von Drasek the book, "A Darker Wilderness" on this…

Mark EngebretsonJanuary 2, 2024

Archives and Special Collections Givens Collection News

Meet the new curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature

It started with “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” the first book Davu Seru read cover-to-cover,…

Adria CarpenterSeptember 7, 2023

Archives and Special Collections Givens Collection News Primary Sourcery

Avenues to Black history

What began in the early part of the 20th century as a week dedicated to…

markengeFebruary 4, 2021

Givens Collection News Primary Sourcery

Racism, directly experienced

Of all of the things that this time is — ”unprecedented,” heartbreaking, revealing, painful —…

Mark EngebretsonJune 10, 2020

Archives and Special Collections Givens Collection News Primary Sourcery

Archives as tools for discussion

Umbra: Search African American History brings together over 400,000 digitally available items that document African…

Mark EngebretsonJanuary 9, 2016

Givens Collection

Help improve ‘Umbra: Search African American History’

Over 350,000 objects documenting more than 300 years of African American history and culture are…

Mark EngebretsonJune 11, 2015

Archives and Special Collections Givens Collection Primary Sourcery

Givens Exhibition at Hennepin County and on Cities97

The Givens Collection of African American Literature celebrates Black History Month with "Bibliophilia: Collecting…

Mark EngebretsonFebruary 19, 2013

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