Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...the end of 2014. Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs. Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...
Editors
...2007), and New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South (University of Georgia Press, 2016). She is co-editor of Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (University of Virginia Press, 2013) as well...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...then the immediate family. It is understood that everyone who ever knew the deceased is expected to attend the funeral. The number in attendance depends on how well known the...
Palomares Bajo
...others have called the worst nuclear weapons disaster in history. It is sparked by new reports showing continuing elevated levels of radioactivity in and around Palomares and with Wiki-leaked cables...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...other men.3Quoted in Robert Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 179. It was against this...
Residues of Border Control
...Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, "Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities," in The New York Times (New York: 2010). Even in terms of the absolute increase in foreign-born population, three...