Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...child, as a high stepping horse moves their carriage, cart, and cargo diagonally toward the edge of the frame, soon to disappear. The action originates in the viewers' space as...
The Black Belt
...sense — that is, to designate the counties where the black people outnumber the white. Black and white portrait of WEB Dubois, ca. 1918. Photograph by C.M. Battey. Courtesy of...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...of color, Dabney exemplified the nexus of race and class in early America and epitomizes "the trajectory of blacks in Georgia" (2). For Jennison, a bifurcated society of white versus...
Unquiet Emmett Till
..."not guilty" verdict, which leads Mace to conclude, "Such letters made it clear that most people were tired of business as usual when it came to cases of racial violence"...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...to push Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, or Delaware out of the Union and it took the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops to cause Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...as in journalistic descriptions and cartoons. Perceived ugliness was one attribute that defined black women's deviance from the category 'woman' and justified their imprisonment and assault during the nadir of...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. In the exhibition catalogue essay "With a Small Camera Tucked in My Pocket," Maurice Berger observes that this...