Category Archives: history

Civil rights advocate and friend of the Pilgrimage, Dr. Reavis Mitchell, passes at 72.

One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died...

Dr. Terry Scott Honors the Legacy of Juneteenth

Most people assume that slavery ended with the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, an assumption...

A History of Violence and Activism

“It’s not something you read that causes you to change … It’s when you see...