COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...Constitution), disagree.11Vincent Bevins, "Despite Bolsonaro, Brazil Has Barely Any Anti-Vaxxers," Intelligencer, November 10, 2021, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/despite-bolsonaro-brazil-has-barely-any-covid-anti-vaxxers.html. Not only is the state obligated by law to distribute free services and pharmaceuticals, but...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and McLane note, "The dramatis personae of the Flaherty films are the nuclear family structured along conventional lines."7Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, A New History of Documentary Film, (NY:...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...film and record separately, which occasionally created a feeling of artificiality for him and, especially, for Roscoe Halcomb. When Cohen first arrived at Halcomb's house, he recorded "Across the Rocky...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...and Joanie Greve, “Koch network laying groundwork to fundamentally transform America’s education system,” Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/01/30/daily-202-koch-network-laying-groundwork-to-fundamentally-transform-america-s-education-system/5a6feb8530fb041c3c7d74db/. Consider the voucher advocates who believe in economist Milton Freidman’s vision...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...until their commercial appeal declined precipitously.85Fruitema and Zoetmulder, The Panorama Phenomenon, 28. The mammoth canvases were particularly vulnerable to rapidly increasing competition from motion pictures. Movies were more easily distributed...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...it among the colored passengers." The food they sent, Pickens noted bitterly, only added "indigestion to insult." For seventy-five cents, you could get "a quarter of an impenetrable dried hen...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...on. It bears multiple viewings. There are more things you can find, not only related to the South but to global capitals' mediation of "Southernness," especially Londoners, especially film and...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr., at the signing of the Voting...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...raised early alarms about COVID-19's potentially devastating impact on the United States. High among their recommendations for thwarting a rapidly spreading contagion were school closures, which Lewis describes as one...
Encountering COVID
...leaned into heavily was the performing arts because they rely on a live audience. And other vocations that really had a hard time. I overloaded those a bit because they...