COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...a health risk." King's College London Podcast, June 11, 2020, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-covid-19-has-exposed-racism-as-a-health-risk. Like many Black households in the US, my family had little reason to "trust the science," especially that produced...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...can do better than that. They can make their representatives justify the trust placed in them. They can demand more of their government. They can assert a right to land...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...interest of exchanging ideas and advancing trade.4Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, "2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," US Department of State, accessed December 16, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/index.htm. Rather...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...never lost its original popularity as a pleasure ride. The line was soon increased in extent and branches were built to the Piedmont exposition grounds and other points of interest...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...of Joan E. Biren and the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History. From left to right: Ginny Berson, Susan Baker (not a collective member), Coletta Reid (standing), Rita Mae Brown,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
Video A Reflection by Craig Womack A friend of mine tells a story about his high school days in the greater tri-city area (Wetumka, Weleetka, and Wewoka—Creek names for water...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...burgeoning student population, more students had to travel further—sometimes ten miles or more (11). African American and white school children on a school bus, riding from the suburbs to an...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...a majority of voters in many counties. As the civil rights movement cooled in the late 1960s, the ASCS claimed that it, not civil rights workers, launched the voting initiative...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...