Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...and of life-size sculptures made out of molasses-covered resin. The exhibit offers no flyers, captions, or explanations, only a release form informing us that we enter the building at our...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...study the National Park Service commissioned on LGBTQ historic sites. I contributed a chapter on Miami that narrated existing (surviving) physical sites. This work challenged me to think very differently...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...cadre of African American elected officials built alliances that helped bring attention to the ecological crisis and advance environmental reform. Following a path pursued successfully by civil rights advocates, environmentalists...
Encountering COVID
...was really impacted our healthcare workers and public health officials. I interviewed people who had significant responsibilities, including top public health officials in major metropolitan areas, and they stepped away or are in...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...approach to releasing prisoners, one that offers educational, residential, and employment opportunities, would ensure that no ex-inmate is overlooked and has an opportunity to become a contributing member of society. ...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...shaped questions about culture, education, identity, and labor as experienced by Latinos living and working in various locations across the US South. “The history of Latino people offers a new...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...that she compiled for the Sounding Spirit publishing initiative. Fulton turned to The Emancipation Car as Sounding Spirit searched for words from historical composers and hymnwriters in expressing our solidarity...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...campaign against the amendment. Ballotopedia offers a helpful overview of the amendment and the groups campaigning on both sides of the issue. The North Carolina Board of Elections maps the official...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a genre called Louisiana apocalyptic noir.3Each Louisiana-based HBO depiction offers smart and problematic depictions. Treme, particularly, lovingly (and perhaps cruelly) recreates the immediate years after Katrina, from drooping ceiling fans...