Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...& Culture, accessed July 19, 2022, https://blackhistorypendleton.org/about. Former location of The Pendleton Messenger, across the street from The Farmers’ Hall, December, 2022. Currently an office of Senator Lindsey Graham and an...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...question of how—not if—the current US Supreme Court will reduce federal protections for Black and other minority voters. A case argued in October 2022 concerning Congressional reapportionment in Alabama reveals...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
..."Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US," JAMA Network Open 5, no. 1 (2022), https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2788286. A survey published in January 2022, found that COVID-19...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...Choice Bills,” Reason, Jan. 22, 2023, https://reason.com/2023/01/22/virginia-is-considering-4-different-school-choice-bills/; Megan Pauly, “Wealthiest Virginians are benefiting most from contributions to school voucher program,” VPM News, July 11, 2022, https://www.vpm.org/news/2022-07-11/wealthiest-virginians-are-benefiting-most-from-contributions-to-school-voucher/. In Mississippi, once the...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Extended For 2022," Stanford Giving, March 14, 2022, https://giving.stanford.edu/stories/cares-act-not-extended-for-2022/. Because ESA puts money "directly" in the hands of marginalized people, such direct contributions to individuals are not tax-exempt. The COVID...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...garden, or they might be permitted to purchase their freedom in installments or conditionally, including in return for certain services. To judges' and governors' minds, such equity-based rulings placated the...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...racial order of the Jim Crow South. Reed considers himself a southerner with "a small asterisk."1Reed, Adolph L. Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (New York: Verso Books, 2022),...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...McEwan's novel, Lessons (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), is scheduled for September 2022. CDC Main Campus, Atlanta, GA. Image in public domain. From my perspective as a recently retired...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Press, 2022). Decades in the making, Hudson's extraordinary book explores the life and work of Otis Noel Pruitt (1891–1967), a white Mississippian who between the 1920s and 1950s served as...