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The View from Cottage Hill
History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.
by
Siddhartha Mitter
via
Popula
on
August 23, 2018
The Pain We Still Need to Feel
The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.
by
Jamelle Bouie
via
Slate
on
May 1, 2018
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda
A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.
by
Vera Carothers
via
The New Yorker
on
September 21, 2022
What Should a Coronavirus Memorial Look Like? This Powerful Statement on Gun Violence Offers a Model
The pandemic, like other open wounds, must be remembered with an “open” memorial.
by
Philip Kennicott
via
Washington Post
on
April 9, 2021
In the Hate of Dixie
Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.
by
Cynthia Tucker
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
August 28, 2018
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How the New Monument to Lynching Unravels a Historical Lie
Lies about history long protected lynching.
by
Nina Silber
via
Made By History
on
May 2, 2018
Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten
In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.
by
Kriston Capps
via
The Atlantic
on
October 4, 2017
Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South
The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.
by
Doreen St. Félix
via
The New Yorker
on
March 25, 2024
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?
Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
September 24, 2021
‘Truth-Telling Has to Happen’: The Museum of America’s Racist History
The Legacy Museum lands at a time when racial violence is on the rise and critical race theory is used to prevent America’s racist past being taught in schools.
by
Ed Pilkington
via
The Guardian
on
September 19, 2021
How Will We Remember This?
A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.
by
Justin Davidson
via
Curbed
on
March 15, 2021
The Lynching That Black Chattanooga Never Forgot Takes Center Stage Downtown
The city will memorialize part of its darkest history at the refurnished Walnut Street Bridge.
by
Chris Moody
via
Washington Post
on
March 11, 2021
Bulletproofing American History
Mabel Wilson discusses the history of racial violence and the continued vandalism and destruction of Black historical memorials in the Deep South.
by
Mabel O. Wilson
via
E-Flux
on
September 29, 2020
Rules of Engagement
The value of shame in objects.
by
Wendy S. Walters
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
February 5, 2020
Why Artist Hank Willis Thomas Smashed Up 'The Dukes of Hazzard's' General Lee
Thomas crunches history and Hollywood tropes in his first solo show in L.A.
by
Carolina A. Miranda
via
Los Angeles Times
on
January 29, 2020
Infrastructures of Memory
It is not just what is remembered that is important, but how it is remembered.
by
Brianne M. Wesolowski
via
Tropics of Meta
on
December 4, 2018
Naming the Enslaved, Reconciling the Past in Memphis
The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.
by
Hannah Baldwin
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Southern Poverty Law Center
on
October 19, 2018
Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy
While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.
by
Jonathan M. Pitts
via
Baltimore Sun
on
September 25, 2018
As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation
History haunts, but Alabama changes.
by
Imani Perry
via
Harper's
on
July 15, 2018
Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’
For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.
by
Brentin Mock
via
CityLab
on
July 4, 2018
The Train at Wood's Crossing
Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.
by
Brendan Wolfe
via
brendanwolfe.com
on
June 17, 2018
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing
A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.
by
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
via
The Nation
on
May 17, 2018
What Happens When We Forget?
A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.
by
Lance Warren
via
Facing South
on
May 7, 2018
Montgomery's Shame and Sins of the Past
The Montgomery Advertiser recognizes its own place in the history of racial violence in its own community.
via
The Montgomery Advertiser
on
April 26, 2018
Remembering Native American Lynching Victims
Research shows that many more Native Americans were lynched than previously believed.
by
Cecily Hilleary
via
VOA
on
April 25, 2018
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