Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Dolores Lewis, "Philly Date Line," Philadelphia Tribune, December 7, 1957; "Queen Lane Apartment Group [photo]," Philadelphia Tribune, December 7, 1957; Jimmy Rivers, "Crickets' Corner," Philadelphia Tribune, January 21 and April...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...South is neither monolithic nor static but a geography constantly responding to new political forces and new social realities. North Carolina Beginnings John Prince Kee was born on June 4,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zone.” Clothesline, Winter's Bone, 2010. Director Debra Granik (b. 1963) grew up in suburban Washington, DC, and is a graduate of the NYU film program. Winter’s Bone is her...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...the park cut off an irrigation line, however, the newly planted trees dried up and died. This story is nothing new. Landscape theorist Anne Whiston Spirn recounts similar frustrations with...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...David Twine and his wife Caroline Gray Twine, both free persons of color in the District. David Twine was interred in Mount Zion in 1894. A member of Metropolitan A.M.E., David...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...chicken laws for the new municipality — it had occurred to no one to write them into the original code. As of this writing, they need only one more City...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...phrase "no waste in material" support one of the traditional values associated with quiltmaking: thrift. The pattern name and the label suggest that thrift is the predominant value expressed by...