An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...heard of the place, nor had my brother. We drove up from Clearwater, got in his little jon boat and didn't do a lot of exploring, just fished. I had...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Texas. . . . We deserve the freedom to make our own laws, and we deserve not to be insulted by a Justice Department committed to scoring cheap political points."18Charlie...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Reckoning with Enslavement
...offered forgiveness to the Jesuits, but she sought justice. Thomas spoke for all of the descendants who thirsted for an acknowledgment of their family's particular enslavement, and after she finished...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Roberts was a law clerk to Justice Rehnquist in 1980. With the ascendency of Justice Rehnquist as Chief Justice and the appointment of other justices across more than three decades,...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...buttressing the argument that these strands of environmentalism are deserving of a longer history, and were not just a product of the environmental justice movement of the 1980s. In addition...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...The situation frustrates me because, whether the bodies have been identified or not, the people within these grounds did not leave records that allow doing justice to their memory. We...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Monsanto acquired the Swann Chemical Company plant, located just west of Anniston, in 1935. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 60. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. The concealment of such "toxic knowledge"...