Zircon
...be a token from the planet's fiery birth. For zircons are almost as old as earth's creation in the conflagration from debris that formed the galaxies of suns. This tiny...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...a Guatemala, el hermano que le sigue, quien había terminado recientemente el colegio en la Ciudad de Guatemala, comenzó a hacer planes de emigrar a los Estados Unidos. Siguiendo los...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...University of Texas at Austin. Since coming to Mississippi in 1999, he has worked on a number of photographic projects, including "Local Legacies: the First Monday Sale and Trade Days...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...Republican lawmakers in the state also plan to introduce an "omnibus voting bill" in the next few weeks that would decrease the number of early voting days and eliminate Sunday...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
As part of the "Appalachia Rising: Voices from the Mountains" conference held in September 2010, protesters participated in a day of action in the nation's capital to increase awareness of...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young black men riding through Alabama on the Depression-era rails from Chattanooga to Memphis in search of work are often obscured today and absent altogether from many high school...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...was struck by just how much everyday people, within social movements and as part of civil societies, called on the Brazilian state to manage and provide healthcare access. With this...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...singularly most direct antecedent. Both are "pitched neither strictly at scholars nor at holiday makers" but at a general readership (Island People 11). Jelly-Schapiro returns to The Traveller's Tree throughout...