Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...present from the young judge's in-laws. Known for her exceptionally large feet, Grace would assume the slave–nanny role and exert a large influence in the twins' family, nursing all of...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...
Congregation
...chorus of marquees: God is not the author of fear; Without faith we is victims; Sooner or later everybody comes by here. Tower This week they are painting the...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...although some chapters have to be taken cum grano salis (of which, more later). Everyone Drinks Cafe Au Lait at the French Market, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans....
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Heavy thread work suggests layers of architectural and cultural history on a typical street corner. The featureless figure of a musician propped against a street lamp stands in as a...
The Liminal Site
...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...at large and to make a contribution to Atlanta's media landscape, so people who are interested in history and politics can have a new source for commentary, analysis and information,"...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Public Health 106, no. 10 (2016): 1734–1737, https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303422; Russell Rickford, "'We Can't Grow Food on All This Concrete': The Land Question, Agrarianism, and Black Nationalist Thought in the Late 1960s...