the civil war
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Most Southerners Don’t Support Confederate Symbols but Still Don’t Know Why the Hell the Civil War Happened
A new poll released this week reveals that white Southerners are fairly divided in how they feel about the Confederate flag and monuments that honor the Confederacy—news unlikely to shock anyone who has followed the conversation around these monuments in Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. Are black respondents quite so divided? Of course the hell not,…
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Colorism and the Legacy of Plaçage: The House That Will Not Stand Revisits a History Still Relevant Today
Seven women, a segregated society, and an age-old means of survival. That’s the pretext behind the play The House That Will Not Stand, now in production at the New York Theatre Workshop in New York City. Written in 2014 by Marcus Gardley (whose credits include Showtime’s The Chi) and inspired by The House of Bernarda…