Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...child, as a high stepping horse moves their carriage, cart, and cargo diagonally toward the edge of the frame, soon to disappear. The action originates in the viewers' space as...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Photograph by Beth Maynor Young. Reproduced by permission of the University of North Carolina Press. Once full of diverse plant and animal...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. In the exhibition catalogue essay "With a Small Camera Tucked in My Pocket," Maurice Berger observes that this...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Coke is an award-winning poet and author of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese ancestry. Her poetry ranges from North Carolina where she worked in tobacco fields, to California where she worked...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...build networks of activism and care (13:40). Part Five Bridgforth on growing up in Los Angeles, raised by people from Memphis, and New Orleans, listening to stories, and writing to...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...time recognized this; civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, for instance, called lynching not a southern, but a national pastime).2Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America," January 1900, accessed October...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...October 11, 2007–February 3, 2008 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 2–June 8, 2008 "It's interesting that as soon as you start telling the story of racism, you start reliving...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...