Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey has inserted into the American mind, through the channels of the gallery and the museum, indelible images of African American memory. The signature is immediately recognizable. Memory as Medicine—curated...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...That notion was precisely what had stoked the greatest fears of the Charleston "Lynch men": the possibility that abolitionist tracts might incite violent slave uprisings.12Wyly-Jones, "A New Look," 1. William...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...actions.12 Reply Brief for Appellants/Petitioners, Merrill v. Milligan, Aug. 24, 2022, 37–38, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/234404/20220824160744143_Merrill%20-%20Merits%20Reply%20Brief%20FINAL.pdf. This is an old, discredited notion. Segregationists of the 1940s argued unsuccessfully that the Democratic party's primary...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...labels of leisurely consumption. Racial divides further hide this fragmented waterway, and the environmental merges with the Sunshine City's flickering, all-too-easily-denied Jim Crow past. Today only a handful of locals...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...A postcard image, likely from the early 1900s, of a racetrack in Maxwellton, St. Louis, Missouri shows clearly the judges' booths, the fencing that kept spectators off the horse track,...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a genre called Louisiana apocalyptic noir.3Each Louisiana-based HBO depiction offers smart and problematic depictions. Treme, particularly, lovingly (and perhaps cruelly) recreates the immediate years after Katrina, from drooping ceiling fans...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...so later I probably saw the same photograph again, this time as a spread in Life magazine, the only mail I eagerly awaited and poured over, admittedly just for the...