Louis Venters
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Have book (and timely message), will travel!
Now that the public health situation in most areas is permitting more in-person gatherings, I'm eager to return to talking with people...
Louis Venters
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
Restoring penn center, Reclaiming Black history
Congratulations to Mr. Bernie Wright, fellow-member of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, who will serve as interim...
Louis Venters
- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Seeing is believing: Understanding Empire and Early Abolitionism in Portuguese History
It was the map, overlaying the enormous countries of Angola and Mozambique on Europe, that initially intrigued me. Sometimes you really...
Louis Venters
- Oct 8, 2019
- 2 min
"Bind Ye the Broken with the Hands of Justice"
A couple of weeks ago at an interesting forum hosted by the SC Human Affairs Commission and the SC Collaborative for Race and...
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
- Oct 1, 2019
- 2 min
Have Book, Will Travel!
The History Press released my new book, A History of the Baha'i Faith in South Carolina, at the end of February, and I'm excited about...
Louis Venters
- Aug 31, 2018
- 2 min
"At War with Ourselves"
In recent days the sitting governors of South Carolina and Florida have each referred to their political opponents as animals. It is no...
Louis Venters
- Jul 11, 2018
- 1 min
"White People Us," by Justin Blackburn
Whoa! I'm not a poet, and I try not to curse quite as much as this guy, but his analysis of whiteness is pretty spot-on. I've been...
Louis Venters
- Jan 31, 2018
- 1 min
READING LIST: Steven Hahn's "A Nation Without Borders"
This arrived in the mail yesterday, and after perusing the prologue just now, man oh man, am I looking forward to reading this! I...
Louis Venters
- Sep 27, 2017
- 1 min
How's This for a Patriotic Display?
Good gracious God! Looking for a quick and easy way to tell if NFL owners really care about black lives or are just in it for the money?...
