"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...localized Covid pandemic response projects should complement conventional approaches to preparedness. Community Support Team Dhaka (CST Dhaka) and Community Support Team Cox's Bazar (CST Cox's Bazar) are two projects implemented...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, An Exhibit with an airplane made of cigars at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida, 1941. Catalog no.: B29-f-00003493. Burgert Brothers, A man serenading a señorita at the Davis...
Finding Media
...helping authors find usable photos, video, and audio clips. This is not always an uncomplicated task: discerning which media are in the public domain or eligible for fair use can...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the United States, rose to address the descendants. He wore a plain black business suit and Roman clerical collar. With an air of earnestness, he spoke slowly, like a pastor...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Fernando Ortiz, El Taino y la yuma, José Martí, Carpentier, Batista, Che and Castro, have a "love affair with spandex" (113) and phallocentrism, meet Eleggua and Abakuá, Antonio Maceo and...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignities, lay within their own segregated communities—especially in Black churches and schools where few whites often entered. As a child living in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Reed had contact with hardly...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Plantations, and Black Hunger: On Food Power During and after Reconstruction, the sharecropping system continued to support the hierarchy and politics of the plantation ruling class in the Deep South....