Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
..."kith and kin."5Ibid. Clearly, the persecution of the Thornton family by their white neighbors following their story's publication in Life represents limits of empathy in the fight against racism. Mr....
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...
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...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...as a practice, aesthetic, and a subject, and no early band embodied all the aspects of this quality more clearly than Oh-OK. As a practice, child’s play meant the valuing...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami from its early days as a "queer frontier" to how it sustained a reputation as "a site where one could transgress gender and sexual norms."5Capó, 4. The 1950s saw...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...facilities that dotted the South, few were more nakedly unequal or more clearly designed to inscribe white supremacy and black inferiority onto the built and natural environment than public parks....
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Jim Bunkley: He could play. That’s right. Mitchell: What about your mother? Jim Bunkley: She played piano. Mitchell: So you had a whole music family. Lottie Kate Bunkley: Mm-hmm. I’ll...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...predators who would target children, despite the cornucopia of both state and federal laws that are still in effect.218.2-48(ii)(iii), 13.2-61, 13.2-63, 18.2-67.3, 18.2-67.4, 18.2-370, and 18.2-374 (respectively Abduction for Immoral...