{"id":23775,"date":"2025-02-26T21:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitiescenter.utk.edu\/?post_type=news_item&#038;p=23775"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:46:12","slug":"expanded-douglass-day-involves-community-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/denbocenter\/expanded-douglass-day-involves-community-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded Douglass Day Involves Community in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, celebrating Black history lifts the topic out of the textbook, highlights current scholarship on campus, and engages the community in further research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The activities are very much in the spirit of \u201csankofa,\u201d a word from the African Twi language that refers to looking to the past to inform the future, explained Shaina Anderson, humanities librarian at the John C. 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