Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...were low-income. The nation's second highest rate was found in New Mexico, where 68 percent of all public school students were low-income. This defining moment in enrollment in US public...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of Fermor's classic.10Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Introduction," in The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950, 2011), ix–x. The genealogical link is apparent....
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...low vantage point positions him as the pinnacle of a pyramid made up of two young boys and a megaphone at the base and a Confederate flag at right. Electric...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...they didn’t get paid very much.” The SOB Band demonstrates the power, excitement, sexuality, and humor of classic Chicago blues. They were not just another act recycling familiar material to...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
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...
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...
And the Prize Goes to...
...its contest winner. Journals used in Engelhardt's class, courtesy of the author. Throughout the semester, the class read one to two books weekly (all published after 2010), working collaboratively to...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...US consumers' "addiction to oil." Maps highlight altered bird migration patterns due to wetland loss and the oxygen-less "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Graphics also call attention to...