Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...that I hired to track down historical film and video of Black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at failing to find much archival...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...and inspiration, realizing that they were creating something that other people wanted to experience.1Aku Kadogo, phone interview with author, March 10th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. The students' performances...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
No Place
...Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt's lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...by Copper Canyon Press in 2014. Brown is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Kevin Young Part 2: Kevin Young reads “Ode to Old Dirty...
Place, Time, and Memory
...Alabama—from gourd trees, landscapes, vernacular buildings, and red dirt to the terror of the Ku Klux Klan—to create art that speaks to such broad themes as the depopulation of the...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...they care about you. That’s part of the cultural dimension that’s hard to capture and hard to present. Then you get criticized for showing your dirty laundry. But that was...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...In the bottomland, where the soil is formed by flooding, the endless striations of light and dark colored sediment create moist, rich, and nutrient-dense dirt in which cash crops like...