“Launch of the Innovative Kiosk”

On Saturday, March 6 at 1:00pm, the Uncrowned Queens Institute will launch the Digital Kiosk Literacy Program at the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library. The program is free and open to the public and will include a demonstration of the Kiosk and the new interactive Uncrowned Community Builders Biography Tools... 

Go, Tell Michelle Play

The University at Buffalo’s Allen Hall Theatre held a standing room only audience on January 19th when “Go, Tell Michelle” co-editors Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram along with contributor, Karima Amin took to the stage for the premiere performance...

UQ 10th Anniversary

If you missed the celebration of the UQ Institute’s 10th anniversary on Feb. 22nd, 2009, you missed a wonderful program of music, a historical retrospective of the work of the Institute and readings by the contributors to “Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady”...

Intern Practicum Program

Over the last several years, the Institute has welcomed several student interns, who have learned about historical preservation from working in our program. The students have worked as researchers, collecting and documenting new histories of Uncrowned Queens and Kings; have assisted the co-founders in archiving our organizational records and...

Institute/College Collaboration

Students enrolled in a St. John Fisher course Assume[d] the Position[s]:Re/is/uncovering Resistance & Resilience in the Black Female Body participated in a special project to identify and collect bios of Rochester area Uncrowned Queens. Assumed Positions refer to the myths and disfigured images that have often characterized Black women...

Book Award - ABWH

We learned on Sept. 2nd that “Go, Tell Michelle” was selected to receive the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award in the category of edited volume.  This prestigious award is presented by the Association of Black Women Historians at their annual luncheon.  This year, Drs. Nevergold and Bertram, will also serve as keynote speakers...