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Mabel O. Wilson

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A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History

How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.

by Mabel O. Wilson via Hammer & Hope on October 31, 2025
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

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A black man peeking out from behind a door with bullet holes by a broadside schedule of Black Panther Party events.

Landmarking The Black Panther Party

In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

by Zach Mortice via CityLab on February 24, 2024

Diagram relating to Black population and diagram of Georgia occupations by race

The Color Line

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 5, 2021

Equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt on a horse accompanied by an African man on foot, outside the American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History Grapples with its Most Controversial Piece

Museum visitors, as well as scholars of art, history, and African and Native American studies, discuss the sculpture’s intended and perceived meanings.

by Reniqua Allen via Aeon on August 4, 2020

Roosevelt statue

Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.

by Nick Mirzoeff via Hyperallergic on June 30, 2020

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