LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...writers gain from such a physical and/or imaginative movement. What do those writers or thinkers "beyond" gain from this movement? The book lays "out the myriad ways the 'South of...
Frank Willis
I am in the four percent of adults 18-29 who told George Gallup they know "a lot" about Watergate. "Watergate" was the building near the Howard Johnson's where we'd go...
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...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...local whites flew thickly. In a 1914 letter to The St. Augustine Record, J. Gardner writes, I have seen the legend of the old slave market. I want to state...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...and villains, courageous activists, recalcitrant bureaucrats, and corporate profiteers. Health care workers run the gamut from eugenicists to environmentalists, from misogynists and racists to strong proponents of social justice who...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...garden as well as an outdoor pleasure park named for the Polish nationalist, Louis Kossuth. There were ornamental French gardens of Euclidean beauty, and English gardens that imitated nature instead...