Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War
When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I
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Memory
Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it
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Memory, Memorials, and History
“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started
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Rebuiding Church (A Poem)
St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews
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Slavery and the Family Tree
How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical
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