COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...was struck by just how much everyday people, within social movements and as part of civil societies, called on the Brazilian state to manage and provide healthcare access. With this...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
As part of the "Appalachia Rising: Voices from the Mountains" conference held in September 2010, protesters participated in a day of action in the nation's capital to increase awareness of...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...loosely interconnected vignettes depicting a day in the life of Austin, Texas, where Linklater still lives. Morning turns to night and then to a new day, and for all we've...
When the Border Crossed Me
...my piece of land more profitable. The disparity began to weigh on me. Thirty years later, I look back to the day the border first crossed me. That day I...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young black men riding through Alabama on the Depression-era rails from Chattanooga to Memphis in search of work are often obscured today and absent altogether from many high school...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the South"), Bessie Smith ("Empress of the Blues"), Billie Holiday ("Lady Day")—frame Faulkner's South as "birthplace" and wellspring rather than the tonal dearth of art that he and Mencken conjured....
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...