By Paul Horton. This is the fourth in a series. Here are the prior posts: Part 1: Historians and the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy Part 2: The Confederate “Lost Cause” and Southern Women Part 3: Confederate Monuments and Southern Memory: The Case of One Confederate General When Alabama …
By Paul Horton. Part 1: Historians and the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy Part 2: The Confederate “Lost Cause” and Southern Women Part 4: Where “Southern Heritage” Falls Short As calls are made to remove monuments devoted to those who fought against the Union during the Civil …
By Paul Horton. Part 2: The Confederate “Lost Cause” and Southern Women: Strengthening the Bonds of Patriarchy as a Path to Power Part 3: Confederate Monuments and Southern Memory: The Case of One Confederate General Part 4: Where “Southern Heritage” Falls Short Part 1: In town squares and …
By John Thompson. A first post described Oklahoma Christian University’s Complex Dialogues with Bryan Stevenson, and Stevenson’s passionate call for ending mass incarceration. His keynote address followed a series of panel discussionson the criminal justice system that appealed to both our emotions and …
By John Thompson. Former President Barack Obama recently recommended his short 2019 Black History Month reading list: It included classics by and about James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, and Frederick Douglass; and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. The overflow crowd at Oklahoma …
By John Thompson. The famed novelist, Toni Morrison, writes: I’ve been wondering who might fill in the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates’s journey is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. …
By Susan DuFresne. I was there. I was there to hear Bernie speak at Westlake in Seattle yesterday. To get it out in the open, I am a white ally and still learning, still reflecting, still processing what happened yesterday in Seattle, when Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors took over the stage at the Sanders …
