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Maxine Bryant and Amir Jamal Touré bring cultural, historical relevance to TIME feature
Georgia Southern’s Maxine Bryant, Ph.D, director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Center and the Center for Africana Studies, and visiting professor and Gullah Geechee Dieli Amir Jamal Touré, J.D., are featured in a TIME video that accompanies the Nov. 24 online piece, “What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Has Meant for the Place Where He Lived.”
To watch the video, visit here.
Breaking barriers: doctoral student helps document breastfeeding challenges for Black mothers, shares their voices — and finds her own
Double Eagle Christina Cook (’13,’19) has assisted Nandi Marshall, DrPH, associate professor in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health and associate dean of Academic Affairs, on the groundbreaking Savannah H.O.P.E. Photovoice Project, a visual, community-based research project that helps identify social, cultural and physical barriers that Black mothers in Chatham County face while breastfeeding.
Cook has taken pride in helping others amplify their voices.
In turn, she found her own.
