Cameron McWhirter

A part of African American history has been lost. The Carswell Grove Baptist Church, in rural Jenkins County, Ga., burned to the ground this + Read More

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

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

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

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., 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 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