Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...
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...
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...
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...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...a broader movement of people who either fled the bonds of slavery or struck out on their own as free blacks to seize a greater range of choices opened by...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2011–2012 and 2012–2013. Even as GOP lawmakers found the funds to create a voucher system for private schools, they reduced the number of openings in the state's highly successful pre-K...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...