"What We Owe the South: Stories Rooted in Black Culture and Grown in the Great Migration" 2025 Fellows Fall Presentation by Arionne Nettles - September 18, 2025

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) invites you to join us for our first presentation in the 2025 Fellows Fall Speaker Series on September 18, 2025 at 11.30am (CST) and will take place online. Dr. Arionne Nettles will share the results of her research this summer as a BMRC Research Fellow as she sought to answer the question, "What would places like Chicago be without the South?"

Arionne Nettles is a professor, culture reporter, and audio aficionado who serves as the Garth C. Reeves Eminent Scholar chair and instructor for digital journalism at Florida A&M University.

For her upcoming book project, What We Owe the South: Stories Rooted in Black Culture and Grown in the Great Migration, Nettles digs deeper into how the cultural storytelling birthed in places such as Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and Los Angeles stemmed from southern roots. The book will focus on creative writing, radio, television, and film as forms of storytelling and will draw specific lines to the South. Come hear from Dr. Nettles about her experience researching this topic in the archives of BMRC member institutions.

To join the program, please click on the Zoom link