Unquiet Emmett Till
...he was murdered look back at his death and the acquittal of his killers as a formative moment in their lives, from Anne Moody to Muhammad Ali, from Stokely Carmichael...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...look like other rural towns in eastern North Carolina, it carries significant histories. Shiloh Landing marks the point along the Tar River where enslaved peopled disembarked into brutal lives of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the liturgy experienced: a confrontation, a reckoning, with real people, with real histories, with real families whose descendants live among us. Until such encounters happen more widely, Americans will continue...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Lancaster County, South Carolina. This account stresses several years of physical and mental decline and, underlying it, a temperament vulnerable to depression. This tendency is reported also in several other...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...French West Indies, although he also worked with Pickering and Adams to support Louverture. Harper introduced Haitian envoy Joseph Bunel to various members of Congress so Bunel could convince politicians...
Atlanta's Black Population
Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...they haunt bronze water cannons, bronze children washed in sodium light. They rake the teeth of cut-steel pinschers, praying change from their metal tongues. One lies beneath a swayback boy...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...with the state government, allowed elites to pursue a path for growth that eschewed heavy industry. As national and global priorities began to trumpet high technology in the 1970s and...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...