“It’s not one thing. It’s the total destruction of Black humanity . . . The only thing that survives, that keeps coming back, is Black memory. We will not die. There are Black people in the future.” Poet Nikky Finney, UNC’s 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, from the panel “‘Blacker than a hundred midnights’: Public History and Memory and the Souls of Blackfolk in the South.” Header image via Wikipedia SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Latest Features Sea Turtle Sonnet March 18, 2024 These Are Revolutionary Times March 18, 2024 The South’s Democracy Struggle Reaches New Urgency March 18, 2024 The Rhetoric and the Reality of the New Southern Strategy March 18, 2024 Voting Rights in Georgia March 18, 2024 Loose Leaf Chatham Rabbits Chose Us December 3, 2020 Crusader for Justice November 5, 2020 The Rug Has Been Pulled May 14, 2020