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A year ago, on October 21, 2022, Sophie Kloppenburg, a former student at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon, Indiana, and current student at Columbia University, unveiled her passion project—a memorial bench and historical marker commemorating the scene of seven African American lynchings/murd
People have long left toys and cards for a girl named Nannie. After Juneteenth, those gifts were found destroyed.
Emory sits on land that belonged to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and enslaved people constructed buildings on the university’s original campus. “In the Wake of Slavery and Dispossession,” a symposium Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, examines Emory’s history and journey towards restorative justice.
“All That She Carried,” by the historian Tiya Miles, digs deep into a singular object given by an enslaved woman to her daughter in the mid-19th century.