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07 October 2020 – Marla Miller and Sarah A. Leavitt
environment, government, human rights, politics, preservation, memory, commemoration series, sense of place
The Rio Grande slows to a trickle as it turns north. It’s hardly a picturesque spot, here on the banks of one of the continent’s longest rivers. The scrub is sporadic, the trees are low, and heavily armed security forces from two nations watch you closely. Read More
04 June 2020 – Alaina Roberts 3
Native American history, tulsa, anniversaries, racial violence, television, commemoration, commemoration series, African American history
When HBO’s Watchmen aired on October 20th last year, it introduced millions of Americans to the explosive episode of racial terror that gripped the black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma from May 30th to June 1st, 1921. The TV show dramatizes how white Americans used guns and even makeshift bombs to destroy millions of dollars in property and murdered an estimated 100 to 300 African Americans over the course of three days (the “aftermath” of which is pictured here). Read More
02 June 2020 – Nicolette Rohr
rock history, commemoration series, archives, historic preservation, commemoration, popular culture, music history
As I stood in a small room on Menlove Avenue in Liverpool, England, that had belonged to John Lennon, I bopped my head along to the Del-Vikings song playing, looked out at the blue suburban skies, and imagined John Lennon there, doing his dreaming, in this room at his Aunt Mimi’s. Read More