Runaway
Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...entitled Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). McCandless has cleared that same bar with apparent ease. We can only hope that...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...This is not Jordan, only the river DeSoto tossed three hundred souls into, watched the water grow tall as they squirmed like dancing stones, watched the water dark and struggling...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...don't, don't because they know the younger vets shuck off these dark expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...wallow, I can almost see the bottom of the lake, the black bass diving, dividing the darkness in the feathery tissue of its gills, as curl after curl rises from...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...darkness and as she rises her head scrapes against a rock ceiling and all is black and silent and she tells herself don't breathe but the need grows inside her...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...Mississippi. He was investigating the murder of a Negro man by a white storekeeper which had taken place many months before. Many people talked to Medgar that night, in dark...
Substantiation
...knows he's coming since he whistles like a train on the way out of town. * They say it was darker than a thousand midnights in the cabin, that they...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
Howard Dodson, Making Art at the Schomburg: Africana Archives as Sites of Art Making (Part 1 of 3), 2014. Art making has been a critical aspect of the human experience...
Editorial Style Guide
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