Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...careless that his name is in one pile and not the other."13Matthew Dickman, "Grief," The New Yorker, May 5, 2008, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/05/grief-6 My purple gorilla was a pink flamingo—standing with its...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...in 1892. Instead, "gentlemanly and efficient" railroad conductors would hand "[white] woman after [white] woman from the steps to the stool, thence to the ground, or else relieving her of...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...Coal companies, facing shrinking domestic markets and in many instances bankruptcy, force workers, coal communities, and American taxpayers to bear the costs of their decline. Black lung can only be...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act of 1965. In effect, he rewrites the amendments Congress adopted in 1982 and annuls their purpose of making it easier, not harder, to strike down voter suppression...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...information from CDC responders about the agency's performance. Notably, he doesn't mention any contact efforts or interviews with insiders about CDC's emergency operations. The enormously harmful effects of Trump and his minions...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...office. They burned the offending materials along with an effigy of antislavery activist William Lloyd Garrison. Torch-lit parades to protest these mailings were then held in towns throughout South Carolina.10Devin...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...sections of the public. A growing part of the population is now aware that the preservation of acceptable living conditions on earth will depend on the ability to effectively combat...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...life, longleaf forests grew in many forms and various conditions and soil types across large areas of the southern states. The authors of Longleaf effectively argue that the forests' diminution...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...local representatives that the messages in mainstream Bengali were not effectively reaching the people. Here, the Chatgaya/Chittaingya dialect is the primary oral language. Subsequently, the Cox's Bazar project engaged a...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...