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Aram Goudsouzian

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  • 2 months ago | chapter16.org | Clay Risen |Sara West |Aram Goudsouzian |Maria Browning

    Almost two years ago, Yolanda Pierce moved to Nashville to become dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. This was and is intensely good news. In Dr. Pierce, Nashville is met by an activist scholar who is also an accomplished administrator and a renowned public intellectual.

  • Feb 21, 2025 | chapter16.org | Aram Goudsouzian |Ed Tarkington |Kashif Andrew Graham |Clay Risen

    FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review was originally published on September 5, 2018. ***The young woman and the old man shared clingstone peaches. She brought him a Virginia ham and a ripe watermelon. Once they feasted on a “marvelous mess of blue crabs.” When the old man felt like it, he told her stories of his life—of Africa, of the Middle Passage, of slavery and freedom, of resilience and heartache. Nearly a century later, we have Barracoon, his remarkable and painful memoir.

  • Feb 14, 2025 | chapter16.org | Aram Goudsouzian |Melinda Baker |Bradley Hartsell |Maria Browning

    FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on October 15, 2018. ***Even a seasoned historian might not recognize the names of Amy Ashwood, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen, and Amy Jacques Garvey. But as Keisha Blain demonstrates in Set the World on Fire, these women shaped the discourse of black nationalism in the era before Black Power. With creativity and pragmatism, they altered the trajectory of American politics.

  • Jan 30, 2025 | chapter16.org | Aram Goudsouzian |Maria Browning

    Every year, the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis bestows an award for a nonfiction book that best furthers understanding of the American Civil Rights Movement and its legacy. This year’s winner is Tanisha Ford’s Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, an engrossing story of a Black socialite who raised the funds that fueled grassroots struggles for racial justice.

  • Jan 21, 2025 | chapter16.org | Aram Goudsouzian |Maria Browning

    In the 1990 hip-hop anthem “Fight the Power,” Chuck D of Public Enemy slammed Elvis Presley. Elvis may have been “a hero to most,” but for the militantly conscious rapper, that “sucker” was a “straight-up racist,” lumped with the conservative icon John Wayne. The lyrics evoked the long, complicated debate over Presley’s legacy: Did his music bridge a racial chasm, or did he steal from Black artists? In Before Elvis, Preston Lauterbach flips the frame on this question.

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