Historical Memory - AAIHS

The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis

Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. In episode 2

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

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