History repeats itself, but you haven't heard these stories before.
Tarana Burke on the Birth of #MeToo, Letting Black Girls ‘Just Be,’ and Leaning on Her Faith
A chat with the activist and writer. Self, September 16, 2021.
Textbooks Watered Down the Civil Rights Movement. They Could Do the Same to Black Lives Matter.
What will children's instructional materials say about The (Contemporary) Struggle? Gen, August 26, 2020.
Universities Are Playing Fast and Loose With Students’ Health
Covid on campus. The Nation, August 17, 2020.
Durham Isn't Burning. But Don't Light a Match.
In a summer of protests, an uneasy "peace" in my North Carolina city. The Nation, June 12, 2020.
The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past
The 2000s will be remembered for repeated battles of monuments — and not just the ones you're thinking of. Gen, December 20, 2019.
How Do You Reclaim a Massacre?
Greensboro, North Carolina and Tulsa, Oklahoma were the sites of terrible violence, decades apart. But not everyone has agreed on what to call the bloodshed. GEN (a Medium publication), November 5, 2019.
How History Textbooks Reflect America’s Refusal to Reckon With Slavery
Textbooks have long been a battleground for contested ideas about slavery and the status of Black Americans. Vox, August 26, 2019.
Beyond Black History Month: Carter G. Woodson’s West Virginia
The scholar who gave us Black History Month was a pioneer in studying Appalachia. Rewire.News, March 6, 2018
A Senator Speaks Out Against Confederate Monuments … in 1910
Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol. Smithsonian.com, October 18, 2017
The Word Is 'Nemesis': The Fight to Integrate The National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C. Longreads, June 2017
America the Ahistorical: Ben Carson and the Dangers of Willful Ignorance
There’s a cautionary tale in this we should heed if we don’t want to validate revisionist history that makes slavery seem like an undesirable minimum wage job. Rewire.News, March 10, 2017.
On The Battle to Desegregate The Nation's Libraries: When the Public Library Wasn't So Public
Literary Hub, July 5, 2016.
Pregnant and Punished: How Our Drug Policies Hurt Women
The sad truth is that pregnant women with drug problems are overwhelmingly likely to be criminalized rather than getting the help they need. Rewire.News, April 21, 2016.
Charleston's History of Hellish Violence
Dylann Roof fits into a long tradition of violent racism in South Carolina. Rolling Stone, June 19, 2015.
Riots and Research: What a 1968 Report on Urban Unrest Has to Do With Ferguson
More than 40 years later, the Kerner Report proves to be prescient in its observations about unchecked police power, problematic in its embrace of notions of Black pathology, and simultaneously hard and soft on white racism. Rewire.News, September 2, 2014.
