"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
Introduction Map marking Walton County, Georgia For the past half decade I have been fascinated and puzzled by an extraordinary annual event, a reenactment each late July of the horrific...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version. Click...
Encountering COVID
...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...she is writing her dissertation on post-Katrina hip-hop and recovery in New Orleans. She has worked as a promoter, artist manager, and musician within the New Orleans hip-hop community since...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...in Southern Courts," New York, New York, 1931. Pamphlet by Joseph North. Published by International Labor Defense. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Image...
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...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices in the United States, Leavell published Forever Green: The History and Hope of...
"Aint that Something?"
...a misfit: "Willet stood in front of me, breathing through his mouth, and I wanted to squeeze his big soft head. The feeling was new and strange" (258). "A hole...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...