Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...of African Americans from the South played football in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Southwest Conference (SWC), leaving the best African American high-school players...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...their best friend they called him. But 1966, you know, that was two years before they even admitted the first black student to study on this campus. They'd happily plant...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...to form families, and had entered "the best years [of their lives] from an economic standpoint." All of them needed medical attention; none were in a position to pay. Such...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...laying out the history of the city’s best known squares—Jackson, Lafayette, and Washington, even the trapezoidal Coliseum Square—and useful accounts of how and when the town’s multitudinous vegetable patches gave...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...The Best American Poetry, and in Nikki Giovanni's 100 Best African American Poems. Brown holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans,...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...cigarettes to Dominick Potania—"a member of one of New Orleans' best families"—as Potania was leaving the restaurant, giving them reason enough to enter.60"Restaurant Man Sold Marihuana, Police Charge," Times-Picayune (New...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Most critics panned it. New York Rocker captured the prevailing sentiment: "This best-dressed act doesn't know what to do for an encore." Still, a lot of Athens folks headed down...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...help young people out of poverty and extreme poverty. The education of extremely poor children also can be one of the best investments for advancing the entire country's future quality...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...