Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...landscape, I wondered—what's behind that safety door that people trust with their lives? Would I find Jesus, nailed on a wall, under the Earth, ready to protect and be prayed...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...in their school districts and offered alternatives that could reduce any adverse impact. In addition, SEF recommends that the White House, the US Department of Education, and other federal policymakers...
The Liminal Site
...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...
Brushes with War
...to obtain "not less than sixty dollars" for the piece, "as that was what Harper paid him for a full page drawing on wood." Sharpshooter, 1863. Oil on canvas by...
Whiskey and Geography
...Sherwood Anderson pointed out in Kit Brandon, these whiskey rebels had to wonder, “What was all this business about taxes? What had government done for us that we should pay...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
...to a white father and black mother in Baltimore, Maryland, Lynch was trained as a minister at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and then preached in Galena, Indiana until the Civil War. After...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
Review Warning the governor of Kentucky that the white South stood on the brink of destruction in 1860, secession commissioner Stephen F. Hale wrote that Lincoln's election "inaugurates all the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...worker. Confectionery "is the art of creating sugar-based dessert forms, of subtleties."13"Confectionery," Wikipedia, accessed June 30, 2014, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery. Exhibit chief curator Nato Thompson explains that subtleties are "sugar sculptures that...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...Super’s thumb tho when shop stewards hound dues I don’t know what’s what thinkin’ this work here is dues enough what’s a union do for me? Sadie, she took my...