Search Results for: memory

Contemplating the Black Atlantic

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, environment, environmentalism, Historical Memory

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

Read more

Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

Read more

1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

Read more

The “Mock Revolution” at Mosinee: On The Racism of Anti-Communism in the US

November 20, 2019November 16, 2019 Denise Lynn black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics, Racial Violence, social justice, white supremacy

  For most of the last one hundred and fifty years, anti-communism has been a defining aspect of American political

Read more

The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

Read more