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A group of students from Tougaloo College are blogging inaugural events on Black College Wire. The group of mass communications students are led by professor Eric Stringfellow and plan to produce a special issue about the trip:

To help commemorate the inauguration of the nation's 44th president, seven students in Tougaloo's Department of Mass Communication mapped out a tour of significant sites of the civil rights era to visit along their route to Barack Obama's swearing in on Jan. 20. They dubbed it "From Woodworth to Washington: The Tougaloo Harambee's Caravan to History." The Harambee is the Tougaloo student newspaper. The trip, which began Jan. 14, includes stops in Selma, Montgomery, Birmingingham, Atlanta and Greensboro. The Tougaloo students will blog from each location.

The trip is being sponsored by Nissan, Terry's Installation and the Tougaloo Department of Mass Communication. It was initiated by department chair and veteran journalist Eric Stringfellow, who is coordinating the project from Jackson.