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  • Crumbling headstones in a field of golden grass.

    Confronting the Afterlife of Jim Crow

    "The older I got, the more I realized that our acceptance was . . . fragile, conditional. The signs were small but telling.”
    by Brian Palmer via Southern Cultures on December 11, 2024
  • Painting of the Constitutional Convention in black and white.

    Fraudulent Document Cited in Supreme Court Bid to Torch Election Law

    Supporters of the “independent state legislature theory” are quoting fake history.
    by Brian Palmer, Ethan Herenstein via Politico Magazine on September 15, 2022
  • The Costs of the Confederacy

    In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
    by Brian Palmer, Seth Freed Wessler via Smithsonian Magazine on November 28, 2018

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Man walks among worn headstones in Black cemetery.

Black Baptists Discover Lost Cemetery in Virginia

African American church graveyards are disappearing. Can they be saved before it’s too late?
by Nick Tabor via Christianity Today on February 8, 2022
An unkempt cemetery

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
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