The Divine Nine and the Formation of Black Studies
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” As a fourth-generation member
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Museums
The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit
On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from
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Consumerism and Curation: Sarah Tate’s Resistance
On June 19, 1865, Sarah Tate was living about 160 miles west of Galveston, Texas, on the homestead of James
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Civic Memory in a Radical Bristol: Edward Colston and Black Lives Matter
On Sunday June 7, 2020, a Black man climbed up onto a plinth in the center of the British city of
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