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horror

What Stories of Scary Plants and Other Botanical Horrors Say About Us

From bloodthirsty orchids to body-snatching pods, fictional flora are often symbols of societal fears.
Kate Golembiewski May 4, 2023
collections

Reclaiming Georgia's Stone Mountain Through Haunting Landscape Images

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright wanted to find a new way of seeing the site and its connection to centuries of racism.
Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing April 21, 2023
Bristol, England

Empty Plinth of the Colston Statue

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.
Tillar, Arkansas

Rohwer Heritage Site

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.
bars

The Triumphant Story of Britain's Desi Pubs

Once places of refuge, these Anglo-Indian bars are now institutions.
David Jesudason April 22, 2022
houses

The Black Woman Who Didn’t Just Open Doors—She Moved Them

Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
Carole Rosenblat March 24, 2022
Milford, New Hampshire

Harriet E. Wilson Memorial

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

A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks

Yale has acquired some of the Black photographer’s best-known images.
April White February 2, 2022
ruins

Podcast: Great Zimbabwe

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team January 19, 2022
Wilmington, North Carolina

Pine Forest Cemetery

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

Malcolm X and Ella Little-Collins House

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.
Washington, D.C.

Evans-Tibbs House

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.
Arlington, Virginia

Hall's Hill Wall

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.
New York, New York

Times Square Station Fake Tiles

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

Robert Smalls Memorial

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

Podcast: Historic Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum & Education Center

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 14, 2021
outsider art

Podcast: The Heidelberg Project

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 7, 2021
science

U.S. Museums Hold the Remains of Thousands of Black People

Cadavers from marginalized communities have been co-opted for collections since the 1700s.
Delande Justinvil and Chip Colwell April 12, 2021