S03E18 | Not Just in February: Black History Month Interview with Prof Mari Crabtree

This week we have a double episode release for Black History Month! Historian Mari N. Crabtree is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the College of Charleston and works on lynching, narrativity, and memory in the South. She researches and teaches Black history not far from Emanuel AME Church, the site of the massacre committed by Dylann Roof, and in South Carolina, where Bree Newsome took down the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds. We talk with Professor Crabtree about how the past collapses into the present amidst the protests against and counter-protests for Bree Newsome's talk at the College for Black History Month. Mari, Liz Wayne, and Xine Yao discuss Dr Martin Luther King Jr, the institution of Black History Month, the North/South dichotomy -- and how Mari is teaching a class based on our episode about Asian American and African American crosscultural influences! Mari Crabtree's reflections on Black History Month: http://blogs.cofc.edu/aast/2017/02/21/reflections-on-black-history-month/ More on Professor Crabtree: http://african-american-studies.cofc.edu/program/faculty-pages/crabtree-mari.php