I am very glad that this seems likely to happen. Hard to think of a single moment in American history more in need of official remembrance: More than a century.
It so happened that the day I was writing the grave post for Mount Zion Cemetery and Female Union Band Cemetery, the historically Black cemeteries in DC, there was a.
There is a grassroots effort out of Tulsa to turn Black Wall Street, the site of one of the worst race riots in American history, into a national monument. For.
The College Board's ridiculous claims that taking all the "controversial" stuff out of the AP African-American course had nothing to do with political interference was laughable even before we had.
While the U.S. does better than basically any country in the world in memorializing key sites of its racist past--quite a contrast to its contemporary politics--usually these sites happen through.
Fascinating discussion of a 1973 dinner between James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, and Henry Louis Gates. The latter was just starting out. He was commissioned to talk to these two legends.
