Social Justice Environmentalism
..."community control" in urban areas. In their call for self-determination, black nationalists took up the slogan, "Free the Land."4Alondra Nelson, "The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter," American Journal of...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...County Livestock Auction sat just south of Marshall, the county seat. Tony Bratton, a local farmer, opened the auction in 1947. Jack Simpkins bought it in 1955 and ran it...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...see their loving-struggle alongside other forms of loving we still debate, and whether we can accept the lives their loving created as lives equal to all others. For us, then,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...documentary film about mountaintop removal in West Virginia called Black Diamonds – she lived in Baltimore while she made it and lives in Philadelphia now, but she feels a profound...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...expansion, the region's largest landowners succeeded in persuading Congress to facilitate development on the alluvial floodplain with investments in flood control structures. Federal participation did not come easy, and representatives...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...band music and ballad singing were white sounds, and musicians, whatever their race, moved between styles and genres depending on their skills and what their paying customers wanted to hear....
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...put the family’s house and land up as part of his bail bond. Ree’s determination to find her father, dead or alive, enrages some of the meanest members of the...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...States. It lives in people, some of whom have no knowledge of its origins but cope with the ever-present longing and lack it causes."1"Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope," Georgetown...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...made, however, still stand in the Presbyterian churchyards of specific communities. Their dated stones memorialize particular people. Elsewhere the lives of these people and their neighbors are more fully recorded....
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...