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...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...that state park agencies should do much more to acknowledge and reckon with the history and legacy of Jim Crow. As evidenced by the paltry numbers of black visitors to...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...writers, artists, and musicians to submit essays, photo essays, music essays, original documentaries, and digital projects for a new series "Music and the US South." From Nick Spitzer's "Creolization as...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...safeguard the private schools’ discretion to choose whomever they wish to admit as students. Already twenty-six of the fifty states have yielded to school choice advocates by enacting a variety...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
..."Ballad of Thunder Road" written and recorded by Robert Mitchum. Audio Samples Like much of the United States, the South became increasingly car-centered in the second half...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...as evidenced by the exceptionally devastating and inequitable toll that COVID-19 has exacted, much of which was averted or more proficiently mitigated by other countries, including nations in the Global...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...appointed federal judges) that would permit Alabama's Black voters—one-fourth of the state's population—an opportunity to help elect a candidate of their choice in two (not just one) of the state's...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...