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  • Connecting California

    What L.A. and Belfast Have in Common

    Should Two Famously Divided Cities Forget or Remember the Past to Move Forward in the Present?

    by Joe Mathews |

    To govern a divided city, you need to balance your remembering with some forgetting.

    That was my takeaway after moderating a recent public event that used Zoom to link live audiences …

  • Where I Go

    Where I Go: Seeing Panama City Through the Eyes of Elders

    Experiencing the History of Black Life in the Country Where I Was Born

    by Kaysha Corinealdi |

    In 2001, I made my first visit as an adult to Panama City, Panama. The city was both familiar and alien to me. My family migrated to the United States …

  • Poetry

    by Millicent Borges Accardi

    After “One Last Love Poem” by Juan J. Morales

     

    Aside from the time they might’ve
    Been casting curses for others,
    Helping priests for the Inquisition
    Banishment and cleansings
    Bruxaria, …

  • Essay

    In San Antonio, Remembering More Than the Alamo

    Innovators Are Using Digital Tools to Tell Stories of the City’s Black and Latinx History

    by William Deverell, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth Logan, and Stephanie Yi |

    In San Antonio, Texas, one memorial—the church-turned-fort-turned-shrine of the Alamo—dominates the landscape. At the Alamo, the artifacts, images, and captions on display tell a unified story: That martyrs died there …

  • Essay

    The Fireball in Baltimore That Ignited a Climate Justice Movement

    Residents of Curtis Bay Set Out to Save Their Neighborhood. Instead, They Built a Coalition With Global Aspirations

    by Nicole Fabricant and Shashawnda Campbell |

    On December 30, 2021, residents of Curtis Bay, a neighborhood in southern Baltimore, felt a loud boom. The foundation of the row homes and two-story buildings shook as though there …

  • Essay

    When Screenwriters Won an Uncredited
    Victory

    How a Pioneering Producer Fooled the Press, Beat the Blacklist, and Made a ‘Robin Hood’ That Resonated with the Moment

    by Julia Bricklin |

    In September 1955, 67 TV critics got the opportunity of a lifetime: An all-expenses paid trip to London for a week, courtesy of Johnson & Johnson and Wildroot Cream Oil.

    They …

  • Essay

    Invisible Women, Invisible Abortions, Invisible Histories

    One La Jolla Family’s Story Illuminates a Persistent Gap in Our Collective Memory

    by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine |

    In the summers of 1897 and 1898, the San Diego, Pacific Beach, and La Jolla Railroad hired “Professor” Horace Poole to provide Fourth of July weekend entertainment. The spry 20-something …