An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...very fast. It's a bloodbath, but it's interesting to watch. Dimmitt: This is kind of grim. This is 2004 and 2022. Martin: The total loss of the canopy is so...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...metro region is large, growing rapidly, and under-studied," says Allen Tullos, co-director of ECDS. "The Atlanta Studies project offers a unique site where shared research and discussion about the region's...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...of the New Deal, and the great majority of them did not participate in the 1938 primary elections."78Sullivan, Days of Hope, 66. Roosevelt's candidates lost the primaries, while Roosevelt himself lost...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...to justice. The world then lost track of Northup, as the date, place, and manner of his death remain unknown. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, 2013. © FoxSearchlight. Like McQueen's...
"Aint that Something?"
...drinking water, caused flash floods, forced people to leave their ancestral homes, and cut jobs (since mining companies have mechanized, they need fewer miners). Despite the loss of jobs and...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and Last Objects, Left on Porch of Evacuated House address particular issues of loss—the loss of a place to worship and pray; the loss of a place to socialize, drink,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...week after I bought it, while it traveled between Herman Wallecki & Sons of Los Angeles and southern Illinois, I dreamed of a guitar so old it had weathered gray...