Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...in Illinois's horrific Cherry Mine Disaster in 1909. Organized labor, Dixon emphasized, was a family; working people needed security, safety, and decent pay to keep their children properly fed and...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...cruisy, electric core was the Sweet Gum Head nightclub, where an intoxicating blend of drag, drugs, disco, and revolution had a pivotal role in uniting Atlanta's gay civil-rights movement—and in...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...health infrastructure? How did the politicization of Covid impede mobilization for the crisis, affect vaccination strategies and distribution efforts, and/or shape conflicting narratives of the pandemic in the US and...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...disparities and for dismantling structures of inequality and exploitation. However, most of his remembered experiences with Jim Crow in this book do not directly support his enduring thesis. His argument...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...a highway overpass to disappear in the direction of the Mississippi, hidden by the green slope of the levee. Bridging complex machinery and a powerful river, clashing on the way...
Zircon
...stone found in the family dirt's a kind of clock they say, a register of time from the beginning since it traps uranium and other elements decaying at a steady...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...cases and deaths surged, corporate America chimed in with commercials proclaiming "we are all in this together," a slogan that blithely disregarded systemic, inequitable differences in exposures, resources, and outcomes.8"Every...