Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...A Review by Gwen Ottinger Pipeline and River Road, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 2010. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...couple of hours setting up the machines Monday night, I was back at the precinct at 5:30 a.m. Interesting, but not fun—and that's not just because of the long hours...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...the Oakhurst Community Garden, had asked us to develop a two-hour workshop. That October, we offered the first "Chicks In the City: Keeping an Urban Flock for Eggs, Compost, and...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Lubaina Himid, Harris Art Gallery and Museum. Photograph by Flickr user drinksmachine, October 6, 2007. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Guarracino's point about "Western cultural hegemony," had summed up, accurately,...
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...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...p.m. - Leave Barney Hester’s House 5:15 p.m. - Arrive at the Old County Jail, 203 Milledge Avenue, Downtown Monroe. (This is where Roger Malcom was held for 11 days.) 5:30 p.m. - Leave...
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...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...