Melinda Baker

Feb 14, 2025 | chapter16.org | Aram Goudsouzian |Melinda Baker |Bradley Hartsell |Maria Browning

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on October 15, 2018. ***Even a seasoned historian might not recognize the names of Amy Ashwood, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen, and Amy Jacques Garvey. But as Keisha Blain demonstrates in Set the World on Fire, these women shaped the discourse of black nationalism in the era before Black Power. With creativity and pragmatism, they altered the trajectory of American politics.

Aug 13, 2023 | tennessean.com | Melinda Baker

In 2020, Nashville-based artists Alex Lockwood and John Donovan dreamed up an ambitious plan. Lockwood, a self-taught sculptor and owner of Elephant Gallery in North Nashville, had assembled a prefabricated building behind his gallery but was rethinking his original plans for it. Donovan, a ceramic artist, college art instructor, and owner of Tenure Ceramics, had recently resigned from his tenured position at MTSU.

Jun 6, 2023 | tennessean.com | Melinda Baker