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Monuments have been coming down all over the world, from Louisville, Kentucky to Bristol, England. Protestors tore President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis from his pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, while Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader, lies at the bottom of Bristol Harbor. A Virginia court just blocked the removal of Confederate General Robert E. […]
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Weeping Time Author Anne C. Bailey weighs in on the debate over The 1619 Project.
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Prisoners in 17 states and several Canadian provinces are on strike in protest of prison labor conditions. Their demonstrations are compelling Americans to understand that some everyday foods are produced behind bars, for cents on the hour, in a system many call “modern slavery.” Prisoners in the U.S. harvest and process eggs, orange juice, ground […]
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In 1859, more than 400 enslaved people – men, women and 30 babies – from the Butler plantation estates of the Georgia Sea islands were sold on the auction block in Savannah, Georgia. My new book is about this sale, the largest slave auction in American history, which the slaves called, “The Weeping Time.” This […]
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How should we respond to the golden anniversaries of the publication of the Kerner Commission’s Report (March 1968) and the greatest wave of racial unrest in American history which followed Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassination (April 1968)? Will we allow these anniversaries to pass largely unnoticed, preferring to commemorate more triumphant moments? Or will we […]
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The recent shootings of unarmed blacks have been labeled by some as “21st -century lynchings.” Karlos K. Hill examines the meaning behind this characterization, whether it’s inflammatory, and why the discussion matters. Hill is author of the forthcoming Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.
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The major motion picture Lincoln, which focused on the political struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, recently exposed popular audiences to the problem of emancipation. There is a lot to like about the film. It exhibited historical authenticity, compelling performances, and persuasive dialogue that award-winning director Steven Spielberg beautifully crafted into an enjoyable two-and-a-half hour […]
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Sylvester A. Johnson, the author of African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (2015), explores what Black history reveals about the larger state of national security and American Islam.
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