by giavanni.washington | Mar 1, 2024 | News
Getting Under My Skin: Reckoning with My White Confederate Ancestor My essay seeks to move discussions of race, both past and present, away from partisan and ideological frameworks and toward the living dynamics of a particular family. Tracing my own efforts to...
by giavanni.washington | Feb 8, 2024 | News
A Way Forward (podcast on 1898 Wilmington Massacre) In November 1898, an armed White supremacist mob—supported by most White elites in North Carolina—murdered untold numbes of Black Wilmington residents and drove the city’s elected Fusionist government from power,...
by giavanni.washington | Jan 19, 2024 | News
Building a bigger table to dispel false historical narratives Recently, GOP presidential nominee Nikki Haley has been making comments about race that promote false narratives about America’s racial history. According to Haley, “America has never been a racist...
by giavanni.washington | Jan 15, 2024 | News
Southold Celebrates Dr. King’s Message Of Nonviolence “As a national poll by the Public Religion Research Institute in October of 2023 showed 25 percent of Americans believe “patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country,” a Beloved...
by giavanni.washington | Nov 9, 2023 | News
The 1898 racist massacre and coup still reverberates through Wilmington, N.C. Two activists with longtime ties to Wilmington reflect on its past and how it might move forward 125 years after a murderous insurrection led by white supremacists. “Nov. 10 marks 125...