Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina
The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not
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Black history
Beauty, Black Power, and Black Student Activism in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “Everybody come in that’s going to jail with
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Enslaved People in Eighteenth-century Britain: An Interview with Nelson Mundell
In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves
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Lynching and the Rise of Black Activism in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “All the savor had gone out of life.
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‘The Bone and Sinew of the Land’: An Interview with Historian Anna-Lisa Cox
In today’s post, blogger Adam McNeil interviews Anna-Lisa Cox about her new book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s
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