Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
Essay On the first Monday of October 1974, a belligerent crowd of two hundred whites besieged a local school bus filled with African American students attempting to depart Destrehan High...
Glocal Lounge
...heterogeneous and tolerant future." Edward Watts, a scholar of American thought and language, writes that critical regionalism offers students a rich and robust methodology for thinking about globalization. . ....
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Nesbit, Scott. "Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia." Southern Spaces, July 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/scales-intimate-and-sprawling-slavery-emancipation-and-geography-marriage-virginia. Tarasawa, Beth. "New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...In the book's Epilogue, Thompson writes about attending Professor James Cobb's "Understanding Southern Culture" class at the University of Georgia. After class he treats three professors and three students to...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Eric Arnall brought video messages—original songs and spoken word performances—from his students at Westcott Elementary School in Chicago. “As an African American young man,” wrote one seventh grader, about the...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...students and schools, and Sisimpur was also warmly received by parents and teachers. Unfortunately, this project began halfway through BRAC's wider Covid education initiatives, and needed more time and closer...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...LGBTQ History Month. To me, this month is a reminder that we are still fighting, especially here in the South, for students' right to learn basic LGBTQ history in the...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...