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...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the rise of recorded music and his acknowledged influence on British and American rockers, the names of blues queens alone—Ma Rainey (billed as "Mother of the Blues" and "Songbird of...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...the Battle of New Orleans, where he defeated the British, but his earlier command of militia in the Creek War of 1813–1814. In this brutal conflict, Jackson suppressed Creek nativists...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales, 1976. Video still from Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Keep Your Eye upon the Scale opens...
Mississippi Delta
...They practiced small-scale farming and took part in a commercial hunting economy with whites after their arrival around the turn of the nineteenth century. The Delta became officially open to...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...While the district did experience more public discussion around policies designed to keep Wake County schools economically and racially diverse, it remains an open question whether the 2009 election marked...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...Experimental and Documentary Arts program. Below is the job announcement for the open director position: The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University seeks a director with proven leadership skills...