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Death and Memory From Mississippi to Chicago

March 13, 2018April 6, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Chicago, reparations, slavery, University of Chicago

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

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History, Memory, and Gentrification

December 12, 2017December 18, 2017 Celeste Henery economic justice, gentrification, Historical Memory, race, racism, South

I spent my Sundays in November photographing in Clarksville—a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, which was founded by freedpeople after the

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Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Activism, Civil War, Historical Memory, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

As monuments to white supremacists, slavery-defenders, and Confederate leaders continue to be torn down by politicians or by the people’s

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Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

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Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes

September 14, 2017September 16, 2017 Janell Hobson Black women, Caribbean, Gender, religion

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

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