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A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof.

by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah via GQ on August 21, 2017

Who Owns Uncle Ben?

The roots of rice in South Carolina's Lowcountry are troubling and complicated. Today, we stir the pot.

by Shane Mitchell via The Bitter Southerner on June 6, 2017

Confederate or Not, Which Monuments Should Stay or Go? We Asked, You Answered.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

via Washington Post on June 6, 2017

The Roots of Segregation

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.

by Carl Paulus via The American Conservative on May 5, 2017

2016 electoral college map.

Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool

Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.

by Paul Finkelman via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 19, 2016

A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry

You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either.

by Matt Miller via Slate on June 29, 2016

Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls’ cast member A.B. Johnson plays the harmonica.

A Peek at the Golden Age of Prison Radio

"Texas Jailhouse Music" explores a time when Texas prisons promoted rehabilitation through a wildly successful radio show.

by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on May 16, 2016

Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

by Ari Berman via The Nation on February 25, 2015

The Weeping Time

A forgotten history of the largest slave auction ever on American soil.

by Kristopher Monroe via The Atlantic on July 10, 2014

C. L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha.

The Man with the Million Dollar Voice

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

by Tony Scherman via The Believer on July 1, 2013

Income tax form

Tax Time

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

The story of Vinegar Hill, a historically African American neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia.

via Field Studio on May 9, 2011

Black and white divided star on the cover of "Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker.

The American Dilemma

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.

by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on July 16, 1992

Lady Soul Singing it Like It Is

In 1968, Time Magazine searched for the elusive definition of "soul."

via TIME on June 28, 1968

Political cartoon of Freedman's Bureau agent separating angry whites from defensive freedmen.

The Freedmen's Bureau

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth: What shall be done with slaves?”

by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Atlantic on March 1, 1901

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