by Jesse Hagopian | Jan 17, 2026 | Coretta Scott King, history, Interview, Liberals, Martin Luther King Jr., Police Brutality, Racism, Segregation, the South, Vietnam War
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids schools, states ban honest teaching about race and gender, and public officials invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to call for restraint and “civility,” King’s legacy is being aggressively stripped of its political substance. Much of the scholarship and public memory of King has long privileged his work in the South, reinforcing the idea that…
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by Lewis Raven Wallace | Oct 31, 2025 | Anti-Racism, Community, Movements, Op-Ed, Racism, the South
Eight years ago, I attended a gathering on my family’s farm in South Carolina on the day of the total solar eclipse. That same week, my grandmother, Sarah Graydon McCrory, went into the hospital with an infection from which she never recovered. In October of that year, just past her 96th birthday, Sarah died — and I got to stand by her on her deathbed as she grappled with connection and liberation…
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