Racism

This bronze statue commemorates the life of the first Black American to publish a novel in the United States.

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.