"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the Scottsboro Boys, 1935. Courtesy of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Local speakers acknowledged the racial injustice done to the nine teenagers. With a powerful statement, the...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...is the origin of the Callaloo Conference. Dancing in the Streets, collage montage on museum board by Jean Lacy, 1976. Photograph by the Tyler Museum of Art. Back cover art...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Orlando1Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1956), 78. Sankofa: go back to fetch it. The implied subject is the imperative "you," as in "you go back to fetch...
When the Border Crossed Me
...me, let alone foreign workers. Yet, on that hot afternoon thirty years ago, I joined the thousands of farmers and other business owners who have hired people who have traveled...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the murdering, but who was only a relative of one the real masterminds: a cabal of politicians, nonprofit leaders, businessmen, police, and meth cookers who stage gruesome murders, kidnap children,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...visual media.8Ibid. 28, 78–82, 121–133. Still from Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, 1968. Image depicts Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro, and Eric Emerson. Andy Warhol Lonesome Cowboys, 1967–68 16mm film, color, sound,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...to portray all the heroic feminine characters of Shakespeare." (Boston Traveler, January 25, 1904). From her childhood in Savannah, through her drama studies in Boston and New York, Adrienne held...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...law. Catalina "CJ" McCormick is also a 2009 graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in communications and business. She works in Chicago at a public relations/branding firm....
Editorial Style Guide
...in Windows by pressing Alt + 1 5 1. There is no space before or after an em dash. Some of the images are disturbing—and moving—like quilter Gwen Magee's Southern...