Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a documentary film based on Campbell's life. It was produced at the University of Alabama and broadcast on PBS. Campbell is survived by Brenda Fisher Campbell, his wife of sixty-seven...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
Atlanta Temple Bombing On the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, shortly after 3:30 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Reform Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Although no one...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to maintain their Lowcountry labor requirements.43Mart A. Stewart, personal communication, August 2009. A motion picture film that dealt with the Vietnam/Cambodia war popularized the term "killing fields." In his environmental...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...to include in their curricula courses in the fine arts, such as film, creative writing, visual art, music (its history, composition, and performance), theater, etc. Then, too, I am convinced...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...that there were some inequities there…. I learned that at a very early age."2"The Revolutionary Will Not Be Televised: A Film About Gil Scott-Heron," 2009 (unreleased). Scott-Heron's love and respect...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...there's the newer mobile home, trailer, against the falling-down row of old camp houses with the mountain in the background. That picture is useful in showing the difference. Aging coal...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
Review In 2001, lifelong Anniston, Alabama, resident Ruth Mims was called to testify in a lawsuit against the multinational corporation Monsanto. Monsanto had owned and operated a chemical manufacturing facility...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...stamp collecting as well as a casual mention of marijuana smoking, see "Just What Is Dishonesty," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), July 1, 1923, sec. One-B; "Literature—and Less—Comments on the Books of...