The hundred-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow. — Nikole Hannah-Jones

White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.

While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened

If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.