Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...of the dead to "confine their manifestations to the cemetery," rather than haunting the living. On the grave of a "Mr. Johnsing" (perhaps Henry Johnson, who died in December of 1893)...
Frank Willis
I am in the four percent of adults 18-29 who told George Gallup they know "a lot" about Watergate. "Watergate" was the building near the Howard Johnson's where we'd go...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Dr. Kevin Johnson to design the fall 2015 "Collaborative Arts" seminar that culminated in LiFT's #DareToBe event. For her final project, each student created a project to perform or feature at...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...In recognition of how African American migrants fueled Chicago’s economy at the time, John Wiley describes working two jobs for twenty-five years. Bud Billiken parade in "simulated newsreel," Goin' to...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
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...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...folkies found Avalon, drove to Mississippi, and asked at a general store, "Have you heard of a musician named John Hurt?" "Third road, turn right, house on your left, up...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...the principal figures in the South-wide drive for racial justice, including the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and many activist college students, among them Dianne Nash, Bernard Lafayette, and John...
Dirty Little Story
...yes, I've been to New Jersey. Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Trash on a beach on Pickwick Lake, Fish Trap Hollow, Mississippi, 2012. "Litter" sounds like a McDonald's coffee cup on the...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...