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On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence

June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 Melanie Chambliss Activism, art, education, race, Resistance

In 1919, two dozen race riots broke out across the United States, and the collective racial terror traumatized Black communities.

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 –

The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery

April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 Bram Hoonhout black rebellion, Caribbean, slavery

In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery

Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Jeffrey B. Perry anti-capitalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, social justice

Hubert Harrison (April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist. Historian Joel A. Rogers, in