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Melt It Down!

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On October 24, 2021

Interesting idea: An African-American museum has proposed melting down a statue of Robert E. Lee that was recently taken down in Charlottesville, and then using the bronze material to create.

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Memorializing Jefferson?

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On October 19, 2021
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 New York, there's a big ol' statue of TJ in City Hall. It's now being...
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Historical Memory Priorities

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On October 7, 2021
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 white girls. In fact, if there was sex, it was consensual, as often happened on...
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Mississippi Goddamn

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On September 6, 2021
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 Interpretive Center had every reason to be worried.Since 2008, when placards identifying places of significance...
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