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Going Home to Tuskegee University, A Familiar Place

To Celebrate 100 Years of Homecoming

Albert Murray, the internationally acclaimed Black intellectual of the 20th century and a writer trained at Tuskegee Institute in the 1940s, wrote that the comforting thing about returning to your roots is that you are “going home to a familiar place.”

Yesterday, I returned home to a familiar place in East Alabama to celebrate the 100th homecoming celebration at Tuskegee University, that “Pride of the South,” which lifted the veil of ignorance inflicted by White society from the face of former enslaved Africans in the United States. read more

Albert Murray:The Omni American Interned at Tuskegee

Albert Murray coined the phase Omniamerican as a way to explain the cultural conundrum that the American melting pot is and always has been. He did not like the expression Black American or German American. Murray began with the “basic assumption that the United States is a mulatto culture.”

There was no better way to explain the bastardization of American culture than through the gutteral sounds of jazz music, which he loved and appreciated along with the blues and the classics. read more