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Congratulations to Gee Egberi on her research and her scholarship, as featured in this profile on the Commit to Georgia website a

Monday, February 3rd, the FRC was elated to host a screening of the documentary "Below Baldwin" in Rutherford Hall, open to all of the Myers Community, followed by a Q&A with the narrator, Broderick Flanigan, and the director, Joe Lavine, of the film.

Tracy Barnett, PhD candidate in History and Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow, has been working with FRC this year on our Gospel Pilgrim project. Today Flagpole magazine published the first of four weekly articles based on her research, a profile of longtime Athens educator Minnie Davis:

On February 1 our members spent the morning pulling weeds, removing brush, and clearing gravesites along the planned path of our walking tour of Gospel Pilgrim cemetery.

On Monday, Jan. 27, FRC welcomed Ms. Linda Davis, founder of the Friends of Brooklyn Cemetery, and local historian Mr. Fred Smith for a panel discussion of African-American history and burial practices in Athens.

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