Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Just as Sure
...bad he didn't get that through my brother Willie's head. That fool found his level in the lowest places. Through all the bad, Daddy said still he was his son....
Image Credits
...logo, from the west side of the Berlin Wall, Germany, August 2, 2008. Photograph by Rory Finneren. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. #DCRainbowCrosswalks, June 10, 2017....
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Their bodies were bullion. There were others of them, wild ones, who lived in the open waters of the river to the west. They sometimes got caught on the trotlines...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Eric Arnall brought video messages—original songs and spoken word performances—from his students at Westcott Elementary School in Chicago. “As an African American young man,” wrote one seventh grader, about the...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...acompaña desde entonces. La historia se repite A boat crowded with Cuban refugees arrives during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, Key West, Floria, ca. 1980. Photograph by Robert L. Scheina. Courtesy...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
Quilting Conversation
...West Coast quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins, with paintings by avant-garde artists such as Al Loving, Mary Heilmann and Howardena Pindell, Outliers emphasized the formative influence that quilts had on artists...