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Black Realities and White Statues: The Fall of Confederate Monuments

As a young student, of perhaps fifteen years old, I was the only brown face in a mostly white honors

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.

Since last weekend, we’ve seen a nation-wide uprising in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and