An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...river. What you get is an increase in algae that grows really fast and then blocks sunlight because these are large mats of algae on the surface of the creeks....
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...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Robbie Ethridge, Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Smithers makes a promising start when he grounds his study in two...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In the aftermath of Tyler's conviction, outrage emanated throughout the country, from college campuses in Southern California to the street...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...May 31, 1955, p. 6. Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive, Rhodes College. The few attempts by states to provide equivalent facilities for blacks generated white anger and hostility. When the...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...