Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...in 1955, the town served as a safe harbor when Black reporters came to Mississippi to cover Emmett Till's murder trial.4Olive Arnold Adams, Time Bomb: Mississippi Exposed and the Full...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...and Act (New York: Random House, 1964). From the outset, poet and some-time novelist Allen Tate questioned the appropriateness of the word "renaissance," concluding that this literary outpouring "was more...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...people even at a time when nationalism may be viewed warily. Lisa Brooks is also the author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (2008),...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...read the late twentieth century writings of Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, and Samuel R. Delany alongside the visual images of early 20th century artists, like Aaron Douglas. Exploring connections across genres and time periods, as...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...a capital letter." Recognizing, however, that in 1912 the word was considered by some a term of contempt, she hoped that in time "our whole race will feel it an...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...prosecution of the perpetrators. The case remains officially unsolved. With the emergence of the third Klan, from about 1950, armed whites frequently drove through African American neighborhoods, at times firing shots....
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...significant number of requests." Further, all members participate on a volunteer basis, spending much of our time otherwise as graduate students, teachers, doulas, herbalists, and nonprofit workers. Over the last two...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...less in these geographical facts than in their process and practice of return and the way their works layer space and time to evoke loss. All photographs play with time....
Gold Records in Deep Space
...isn't so much about the lives and times of these bluesmen, as it is about their archival traces. Interviewed for The Soul of a Man, blues aficionados Steve and Ronnog...