Editors
...among the Highlander Center, Southern Regional Council and CROW, financed by the Ford, Rockefeller and C.S. Mott Foundations. Smith is the author or editor of four books, more than forty...
Huntsville, Alabama images
...incorporated town in the Alabama Territory. Tourists and Rockets, U. S. Space and Rocket Center The U.S. Space and Rocket Center opened in 1970 on land donated by the U.S....
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...became a gospel song writer and businessman along with Ruebush (50–51). In 1866, the pair created "Ruebush & Kieffer," a gospel tune book publishing company at Singers Glen, Rockingham County,...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...was empty sky. Reluctantly Lydde dropped her eyes, lower, lower, to a vast plain of grass and rock. Where the crest of Fallam had been, past where Black had been,...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Brown's Clotel or; The President's Daughter, and Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative. Images are in public domain. Although little known in its era, "The Mulatto" presents the binary of submission and rebellion that...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...refused to punish Walker. Otis distanced white Bostonians from Walker's radicalism and condemned his pamphlet, but this proved cold comfort to agitated slaveholders who "cared very little for Bostonian sympathies"...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
"Aint that Something?"
...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and while we are presented with a couple of scenes of slaves ministering to each other's wounds, sleeping, and talking about their awful conditions, there's very little of the mundane...