American identity

How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

July 16, 2021July 15, 2021 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Black film, film, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Healing Historical Racial Trauma

May 31, 2021May 30, 2021 Hannibal B. Johnson black protest, race, Racial Violence, Resistance, white supremacy

The centennial of a defining, defiling moment in Tulsa history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (“Tulsa Massacre”), May 31 –

Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

Unearthing New Histories of Black Appalachia

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020 Jillean McCommons Historical Memory, South Carolina

“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a

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