Finding Media
...MARBL to locate drawings of the Scottsboro Boys for an article by Ellen Spears. Other libraries and archives have also been great resources; the Virginia Historical Society provided images of visitors to...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...or stucco walls; and other architectural targets of opportunity that converted homes into billboards. The linear reporting within neighborhoods offered by the markings offers a unique Katrina narrative. Although the...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...organization's Board of Directors from 1986 to 1996, and edited Uncoverings, the group's annual volume of research papers from 1987 to 1983. She also edited Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...do we choose the narratives that affect our future? What price do we pay for allowing our memories, our environment, our places to be dismantled one step, one mile, nine...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Cane ("Cane"), revisiting the activist legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer ("95 South: All of the Places We've Been"), reflecting on the oral traditions of his grandmother ("Hello Sunday! Hello Road!")...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...personality, "I came to your house two Sundays ago to see you. I asked your daughter to tell you to call me, please. . . . My plan is to bring...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...be precleared by the Department of Justice or federal courts based on historic voting rights violations—was unconstitutional. As a result, the capacity of the federal government to challenge changes to...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...form to make sense of the tragicomic reality of human existence. As I reflected on what gospel music has meant to African Americans, my thoughts often turned to the song...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...maze of backyard overgrowth, accessible only with permission. To trace the creek now is to trespass. Care falls to individual whim or the conscience of private owners. One particularly zealous...