In the US, is black history merely a sad prelude to the present, or an ongoing nightmare of discrimination and violence?


Leigh Raiford is Associate Professor of African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle; and co-editor with Renee Romano of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory.
In the US, is black history merely a sad prelude to the present, or an ongoing nightmare of discrimination and violence?
