Ernest Crim III writes a personal newsletter on untold Black history, racial justice and education, pairing conversations with community figures and reflections on his Emmy nominations and work as an independent educator. Readers get interviews, first-person commentary on Black history being restricted in schools, and updates on his projects.
Website: https://mrcrim3.substack.com
Essays on photography that examine how photographers learn to see, how inherited conventions shape the gaze, and how Black photographers and subjects are represented and remembered. Readers get reflective, argument-driven criticism built around specific images and questions about who defines the frame.
A Black history and current-affairs newsletter that decodes American history and race through a personal, unfiltered voice, with pointed essays on racism, survival advice and the legacy of slavery and segregation. Readers get historical context framed around lived Black experience and sharp commentary on present-day politics.
A personal history newsletter that recovers suppressed accounts of Black and brown Americans, including lynchings and their family's experience of racial terror. Issues also mix in commentary on polling, pop culture and podcast appearances.
A personal essay series by a writer revisiting the 1927 'Good Darky' statue at the LSU Rural Life Museum and linking it to the 1995 Million Man March. It asks who gets to define good Black manhood and what responsibility means today.
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