Louis Venters
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
UPCOMING: Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) conference in Charl
This week I'll be attending my first conference as a member of the venerable Association for the Study of African American Life and...
Louis Venters
- Jul 7, 2017
- 1 min
White Americans: There Are No Innocent Bystanders
My friend, a young African American man, was beaten up by police and arrested yesterday in the Charleston area after being stopped for...
Louis Venters
- May 30, 2017
- 2 min
What Kind of Country?: Redsicovering the Interracial Heart of Memorial Day
Yesterday among the many Memorial Day tributes I saw on social media, I was particularly struck by one from the Reconstruction Era...
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
- Jan 15, 2015
- 3 min
One River, One Boat: When Have We Ever Heard So Much about a Gubernatorial Inaugural Poem?
South Carolinians are used to hearing plenty of less-than-positive news about their state in the media, local and national. Some of it is...
