Social Justice Environmentalism
...paradigm that emerged in the 1980s expands our understanding of what issues and concerns count as environmentalism. Native American groups lobby to redress exploitation of uranium miners. Organizations such as...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...purposes and created what bell hooks has called "a counterhegemonic world of images" that rebutted the racist caricatures found in popular culture and in the work of some white photographers.3bell...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...PA 4970. It is estimated that by the time of its closing the Burgert Brothers studio had produced as many as 80,000 negatives that documented diverse aspects of life in...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...man sway his sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. Hear ye that mourning? 'Tis...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...tradition but also ensured that gospel remained embedded in African American culture. That embeddedness has surfaced in a variety of cultural contexts and arenas and continues to do so: BET's...
Image Credits
...the public domain. "Love More, Hate Less," Pulse Orlando Memorial site, Orlando, Florida, December 29, 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "No One Stands Alone," Atlanta Pride, Atlanta, GA, October 2017. Photograph by Eric...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...when people look at what we have, most of them would not understand why we would even have a frustration. But it's just knowing what you had and what you...
At Sun Ra's Grave
Birmingham, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...
Frank Willis
...worked for the government — I held his scrawled hate mail to the light. I don't care now that Chuck Colson has a prison ministry, or that G. Gordon Liddy...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...said. "Well, what the hell you going to do with your fish, eat 'em?!" "Something like that," Scott told the man. "I'm down here now seeing what you're doing. I'm...