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...
And the Prize Goes to...
...asked many of the scholars on the syllabus to share their top five "tips" for best reading practices. The students also gathered hints from others who need to read quickly...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...The Best American Poetry, and in Nikki Giovanni's 100 Best African American Poems. Brown holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans,...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...sense, Black Geographies fundamentally asks what may count as a “real” map and, more importantly, what forms of power and privilege the designation of “map” bestows on the objects it...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Shady Patterson and event coordinator Miriam Denard where each performance might best be stationed to facilitate a "walking tour" performance event. Working in collaboration with LiFT, the students gained encouragement...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...