Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...his wife, Martha Custis Washington. After Mrs. Washington's death in 1802, a number of her slaves at Mount Vernon were inherited by Martha Custis Peter, adding to the Peter family...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...read the late twentieth century writings of Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, and Samuel R. Delany alongside the visual images of early 20th century artists, like Aaron Douglas. Exploring connections across genres and time periods, as...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...right-wing think tanks and "public interest" propaganda outlets. After crushing a number of moderate North Carolina Republicans over the last ten years by funding their more conservative opponents, he gained...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...like other rural towns in eastern North Carolina, it carries significant histories. Shiloh Landing marks the point along the Tar River where enslaved peopled disembarked into brutal lives of forced...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...Along the Alcovy River. Covington: Georgia Wildlife Federation, 2011. This small community of Angeline Sims's collateral descendants, her descendants recall, lived along the Alcovy upstream of the railway trestle, and...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Social Justice Environmentalism
..."community control" in urban areas. In their call for self-determination, black nationalists took up the slogan, "Free the Land."4Alondra Nelson, "The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter," American Journal of...
Mississippi Delta
...a frontier of opportunity, a relatively undeveloped region without the long settled social arrangements of the eastern South and with land that could be richly productive if cleared. Blacks hoped...