Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to such nights, because old as I am I'll still do what they...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It is accessible via a web link, and requires no download. (https://battle-of-atlanta.opentour.site/tours) The event will...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Water Graves recognizes the album's imbrication with capitalist profit—casting Beyoncé as an embodiment of the capitalistic deity Mami Wata—it doesn't investigate how the economic "interests" underwriting her album inflect and/or...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...well as class and color lines, I look for imagined black futures in archival holdings. In addition to my research, I work as an assistant curator for the African American...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...The Hammonds House Museum. But urban hot spots do not emerge in a vacuum. Instead, they often pop up in black neighborhoods, crowding out institutions vital to artistic and cultural flourishing. Take for example,...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...is in public domain. Fermor is not the most important figure looming over Island People. As a Caribbeanist thinker, Jelly-Schapiro is influenced largely by C. L. R. James. In fact,...
Frank Willis
...I dance in toe shoes to the Beach Boys, in shame. Growing up in Washington I rode D.C. Transit, knew Senators, believed the Washington Monument was God's pencil because my...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...protests. Largely ignored by locals and overlooked by tourists, the market sits empty in the center of America’s oldest continuously inhabited, European-established city. Despite its changing purposes, it remains best...