Memory and African-American History:

Related to The Nubian Message’s critique of media coverage of racial issues, the newspaper’s staff sought to correct over-simplified and reductionist narratives about African-American history. In the eyes of the Message columnists, at the dawn of a new century, collective memory and historical ideas about slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil Rights fed into the contemporary belief that the United States represented a “post-racial” society. As the following articles demonstrate, the African-American student journalists believed that white America needed to reckon both with the horrors of slavery and the radical demands of civil rights activists.