Recy Taylor’s bold testimony in defense of her bodily integrity in 1944 will reach a new audience because of Nancy Buirski’s new documentary film, The Rape of Recy Taylor. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It will have...
Take a listen: Courtney B. Vance and I talk about the roots of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. We covered a lot of ground in just 23 minutes! We talked history and the causes and consequences of the largest uprising in American History. It left 43...
I wrote this essay for Bridge Magazine. She reached into the box of pennies and ran her fingers across the mound. She paused, flattened her palm, closed her eyes and exhaled. Then, she scooped up a small handful and let them fall softly back...
Join us for the party! I am still working on my book about the 1967 Algiers Motel murders in Detroit. But you can hear a sneak peak of my findings at the launch party for a new book on the 1967 Detroit uprising. This collection of essays...
This was probably one of the highlights of my career (so far). In this panel put together by the Central Ohio Transit Center, I joined a conversation with SNCC Freedom Singers Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, and Betty Mae Fykes about the...
Listen to an interview between Danielle McGuire and Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY in Philadelphia (2010) You know one story about Rosa Parks, but not this one: The woman who gained worldwide fame when she “refused to give up her seat” on a Montgomery...
Episode 83 I Black History Month – “At The Dark End Of The Street” with Danielle McGuire and Beth Hubbard Author of “At The Dark End Of The Street” Danielle McGuire, and Producer of “The Rape of Recy Taylor” Beth Hubbard, provide a powerful...
I joined “Left of Black” hosted by Mark Anthony Neal at Duke University for a fantastic discussion about the role of women, gender and sexual violence in the civil rights movement. We talked about my book, At the Dark End of the...
Here is my latest opinion piece in the Hollywood Reporter on the new film about Nat Turner. Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation team ask viewers to take history seriously and to grapple with the most painful parts of America’s past...
If you want to contextualize the mass murders at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC to see how this attack was rooted in white supremacy and attacks on black citizenship and humanity, this curated list makes for a good starting...
This lecture was presented as the Belle McWilliams Lecture for the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis. Recorded by Marty Deull in March 2015.
In my acceptance speech for the Lillian Smith Award, I talked about how the Southern Regional Council’s oral history project “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” made me rethink the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the role of women and...
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