Louis Venters
Oct 2, 20192 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20153 min read
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...
