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President Obama on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case

President Obama discussing the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case at a press briefing today: “When you think about why in the African-American community, at least, there’s a lot of pain around what...

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on anti-black mob violence in American history

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research and the author of numerous important works on African American history and...

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Red Summer book talk at Carswell Grove Baptist Church, Jenkins County, Ga.,...

I wrote Red Summer in part because I was worried much of this important American history had been forgotten. Almost all of the key sites of bloody 1919 remain unmarked and unknown. I started the book...

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“Red Summer” talk at Carswell Grove Baptist Church, Jenkins County, Ga.,...

I am looking forward to traveling out to Carswell Grove Baptist Church on Saturday morning to speak at a fundraiser by people working to restore and preserve the historic building, built in 1919 on the...

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Oct. 12 fundraiser helps in efforts to restore African-American church built...

Great fundraiser to restore Carswell Grove Baptist Church on Oct. 12 in rural East Georgia. The crowd in the old church, built in 1919 on the wreckage of the previous one destroyed by a white mob, was...

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Thanks to TEDx GeorgiaTech 2014

Thanks to TEDx GeorgiaTech 2014 for having me speak at the conference about remembering racial violence and how some communities are beginning to mark past racial violence with events, markers and more.

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Ferguson mayhem, near St. Louis, echoes 1917 East St. Louis, Ill., race riot

The Ferguson violence, north of St. Louis, brings to mind the 1917 East St. Louis, Ill., race riot, which sent thousands of black people fleeing across the Mississippi to St. Louis for safety. Click...

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Historic black church featured in Red Summer destroyed by arson

A part of African American history has been lost. The Carswell Grove Baptist Church, in rural Jenkins County, Ga., burned to the ground this weekend. Investigators have ruled arson was the cause of the...

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Is 2016 our Red Summer?

In the summer of 1919, race riots, lynching and other violence swept the U.S. from big cities like Chicago and Washington to small towns like Longview, Tex. and Ellisville, Miss. It was so terrifying...

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Baltimore and the legacy of American riots

So Baltimore happened. Rioters destroyed businesses and automobiles. Police officers were injured. Fires were set. The violence arose from the death of Freddie Gray April 19 while in police custody....

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