Cameron McWhirter

The Ferguson violence, north of St. Louis, brings to mind the 1917 East St. Louis, Ill., race riot, which sent thousands of black people + Read More

Thanks to TEDx GeorgiaTech 2014

April 8, 2014

Thanks to TEDx GeorgiaTech 2014 for having me speak at the conference about remembering racial violence and how some communities are beginning to mark + Read More

Oct. 12 fundraiser helps in efforts to restore African-American church built in 1919 after riot

October 13, 2013

Great fundraiser to restore Carswell Grove Baptist Church on Oct. 12 in rural East Georgia. The crowd in the old church, built in 1919 + Read More

“Red Summer” talk at Carswell Grove Baptist Church, Jenkins County, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 12, starting at 10:30 a.m.

October 10, 2013

I am looking forward to traveling out to Carswell Grove Baptist Church on Saturday morning to speak at a fundraiser by people working + Read More

Red Summer book talk at Carswell Grove Baptist Church, Jenkins County, Ga., on Oct. 12.

September 20, 2013

I wrote Red Summer in part because I was worried much of this important American history had been forgotten. Almost all of the key + Read More

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on anti-black mob violence in American history

August 5, 2013

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research and the author of numerous important + Read More

President Obama on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case

July 19, 2013

President Obama discussing the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case at a press briefing today: "When you think about why in the African-American community, at least, + Read More

The old Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville Tennessee, site of a major race riot in 1919

June 26, 2013

I recently visited Knoxville for work and visited the old courthouse, to see if one of the worst race riots of the Red Summer + Read More

James Weldon Johnson’s birthday, June 17, 1871

June 17, 2013