Co-hosted by Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams and Kelli Lemon, After the Monuments captures the zeitgeist of a nation struggling to move from symbolic to substantive change on racial issues.
In this episode, Kelli and Michael Paul talk with Kristin Szakos, a former member of Charlottesville City Council who recommended the removal of the city's Confederate monuments during her 2013 election campaign.The podcast analyzes current events about race through a historical context, examining the ideas of leading Black thinkers over time, and encouraging broader and deeper insights into racial tensions, divisions and reconciliation.
People are also reading… Columns of RTD's Michael Paul Williams that won him a Pulitzer Prize Star contributors Williams: 'The Lost Cause is dead.' Let's dismantle its legacy beyond the symbols. The original opponent of the Robert E. Lee statue issued a stern prophesy after the monument was erected in 1890.
Star contributors Williams: Richmond's monuments to oppression need to be gone, but not forgotten. Christopher Columbus survived multiple voyages across the high seas. But his Richmond statue met an inglorious end at the bottom of a Byrd Park lake. Star contributors Williams: 'Ignorance is no longer in season.' It's time for Hanover to reject its Confederate school names. Hanover County appears intent to live on in infamy as the Prince Edward County of the 21st Century.
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