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Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Story

Memory and the Lost Cause

by Danielle Jackson December 27, 2018October 19, 2022

An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Theater of Forgiveness

by Hafizah Geter November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Theater of Forgiveness

by Hafizah Geter November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice

by benhuberman February 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking

by benhuberman February 15, 2018October 19, 2022

Historians of African-diaspora cooking have considered hill rice a mythical, long-extinct staple. Then, one of them stumbled on it while walking in the Trinidadian countryside.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof

by Matt Giles August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s harrowing feature explores not only the background of Dylann Roof, who murdered nine parishioners of Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in 2015, but also the racial and social identities that still prevail throughout the South.

Posted inNonfiction, Uncategorized

The South Carolina Dylann Roof Knew

by Matt Giles August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

For GQ, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels through the state that taught Roof a perverted viewpoint of the antebellum period.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

‘We Have to Do Better’: A Reading List on the Charleston Church Massacre

by Emily Perper June 19, 2015October 19, 2022

We have to demand accountability from one another and stand up for people of color—in the streets, in our Facebook feeds, in our offices and homes.

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