Louis Venters
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
Publisher's Sale on No Jim Crow Church
In honor of Black History Month, the University Press of Florida is offering a substantial discount on titles related to African...
Louis Venters
- Sep 29, 2016
- 1 min
The Slave Dwelling Project: Shining a Light on Our Hidden History
I was really sorry not to be able to make it to the third annual conference of the Slave Dwelling Project earlier this month in Columbia,...
Louis Venters
- Sep 21, 2016
- 1 min
Fellow White Americans: Search Deep, and Grow Up
Fellow white Americans: By every conceivable measurement of human well-being, the lives of my two sons--and those of all others who look...
Louis Venters
- Aug 4, 2016
- 2 min
Opening of FMU's New Center for Health Sciences and Hopes for a Better Florence
This morning, Francis Marion University hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Luther F. Carter Center for Health Sciences in...
Louis Venters
- Mar 15, 2016
- 2 min
On My Reading List: New Novel Evokes Jim Crow-Era Charleston & Interracial Cooperation
I just saw this glowing review of Michele Moore's The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston (University of South Carolina Press, 2016) in...
Louis Venters
- Feb 19, 2016
- 1 min
Announcing Michael Twitty's New Book on the Culinary History of Black Southerners
Culinary historian Michael Twitty has just announced that his new book, The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary...