Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...(16). Here, The Land Was Ours gestures towards African Americans' historic lack of access to state power that made coastal capitalism possible in the first place—a dilemma that undergirds blacks'...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...for an overview of what some singers have regarded as the “Sacred Harp revival.” For many, however, participation in Sacred Harp singing is a choice that has nothing to do...
Image Credits
...the public domain. "Love More, Hate Less," Pulse Orlando Memorial site, Orlando, Florida, December 29, 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "No One Stands Alone," Atlanta Pride, Atlanta, GA, October 2017. Photograph by Eric...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...when people look at what we have, most of them would not understand why we would even have a frustration. But it's just knowing what you had and what you...
At Sun Ra's Grave
Birmingham, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...
Frank Willis
...worked for the government — I held his scrawled hate mail to the light. I don't care now that Chuck Colson has a prison ministry, or that G. Gordon Liddy...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Florida, and parts of Louisiana"—is a "socio-cultural model" that allows her to explore the historical complexities of an increasingly multiethnic space and not "some projection backward in time of what...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...the states surrounding you that your place is more backwards, that you are hicks. And, of course, the media delivered that message all the time about "hillbillies." So I understood...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On March 3, 2013, doctors announced that a baby born in rural Mississippi had been "functionally cured" of HIV infection. The...