Forget The Alamo – History Surfacing
History, it is said, is written by the winners. Well, not always. The history of the Alamo, as it has …
Category Archives: Race
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E Baptist
The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden …
“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South
Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the …
Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out …
Black Boy – Richard Wright
It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it …
James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …
“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin, …
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? a documentary ….
Travis Wilkerson’s new film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, is having a few, hard to find, viewings in the …
James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a …
Movies: Documenting the Black Experience
Two documentary films from 2016 have made important splashes in the sea of movies available this year, not as big …
Movies: Black Fiction, Black History
What a great couple of months it’s been for movies about the African-American experience. The African-American Film Critics Association calls 2016 …