33 Counts, 70 Bullets, and A Chilling Confession
F.B.I. Agent Michael Stansbury: “Um, look, can you tell us about what happened last night?” Dylann Storm Roof: “Uh (pauses),
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Death
America’s Enslaved Dead
On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in
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First Strike: A New Book on Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Haunting Harmonies: Filmic Sounds in 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation
The recent release of The Birth of a Nation (Fox Searchlight, 2016) has resulted in a surprising blaze of dissonant
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Slavery and Violence in the Old South: An Interview with Jeff Forret
This month I interviewed Dr. Jeff Forret, Professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. He is the author
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