Black Wall Street, Collective Memory, and Reparations
Of all the Black-owned businesses that thrived on “Black Wall Street,” it is the Dreamland Theatre that stands as the
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On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence
In 1919, two dozen race riots broke out across the United States, and the collective racial terror traumatized Black communities.
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Henry Aaron and American Memory
The recent death of Henry Aaron sparked remembrances of both his legendary playing career and his longer fight for civil
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Civic Memory in a Radical Bristol: Edward Colston and Black Lives Matter
On Sunday June 7, 2020, a Black man climbed up onto a plinth in the center of the British city of
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Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.
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