Historical Memory
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.
Historical markers not only vary by state but by region. In New England, they basically don't exist. We don't have to bother with such things, we are history (eyeroll, but.
As we have debates over historical memory, one of the trickiest figures in Thomas Jefferson. Who embodies both the potential and the hypocrisy of this nation more than he? In.
This is a great project and I want to highlight it: The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked.
On Monday, I happened to be in Scottboro, Alabama, home of the Scottsboro Boys incident, where 9 innocent Black young men were nearly lynched in 1931 for supposedly raping two.
Truth of the matter is that even for those who do understand that racism is a real problem and has been forever, we really underestimate the ubiquity and daily banality.
Mississippi continues to impress its inability to even decently deal with its past. When it was notified this week that another sign commemorating Emmett Till had disappeared, the Emmett Till.
I had no idea that Vietnam put up a monument to where John McCain's plane was shot down. Talk about something I need to see in person! .@VP Harris lays.