Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...could be completed within a fixed period—say, five years, as the Evansville, Indiana, school system had done in 1949–1954—but the Nashville board wanted a slower pace of one grade a...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Her travels have inspired different bodies of work, such as "Children of India" and "Rooftop Bee Keepers" (an ongoing project starting with New York City). This project takes her back...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on National Public Radio, asserts: "Basically, it was blood sugar . . . like we talk about blood diamonds today, there were pamphlets saying this sugar has blood on its...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...analyses of state power, advanced capitalism, and criminal justice in order to better understand the world we live in today.7Saskia Sassen has written a particularly provocative book using the logic...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Story of Emmett Till (Mound Bayou: Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership, 1956). Mound Bayou continues to exist today, though it grapples with the numerous contemporary challenges facing rural southern...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Loss in Louisiana." Today, public debate centers on the industry's legal liability for coastal erosion given the lenient rules governing the peak of extraction operations from the 1950s–80s. State regulators...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...in 1954 after two seasons as head coach at Mississippi State. He remained at the University of Minnesota through 1971 and is remembered today as one of the first coaches...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...needs often receive the least support, and are now a majority in the nation's public schools. The South and the nation are today a part of a new global economy...