The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...predators who would target children, despite the cornucopia of both state and federal laws that are still in effect.218.2-48(ii)(iii), 13.2-61, 13.2-63, 18.2-67.3, 18.2-67.4, 18.2-370, and 18.2-374 (respectively Abduction for Immoral...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...to track along gender and racial lines in the U.S. Eileen Patten, "Racial, gender wage gap persists in U.S. despite some progress," Pew Research Center, July 1, 2016, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/01/racial-gender-wage-gaps-persist-in-u-s-despite-some-progress/. Though...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Washington, DC, Martin Luther King Jr.'s grave at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Boston Children's Museum. Much to my parent's dismay, I was much more interested in...
Finding Media
...seem daunting. (Though I highly recommend the Center for the Study of the Public Domain’s graphic novel Bound By Law for an entertaining explanation of fair use.) We have a...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...a Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Bricking the Church
...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church" from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...as the region’s unique “spiritual geography.”7Tom Rankin, Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 7. Rankin’s three photographs in the “Outlands” exhibit chronicle the...