The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...that state park agencies should do much more to acknowledge and reckon with the history and legacy of Jim Crow. As evidenced by the paltry numbers of black visitors to...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...with Warren Court decisions, particularly in . . . reapportionment."3Mark Sullivan, Memorandum for Mark Levin, Dec. 12, 1985, https://www.archives.gov/files/news/samuel-alito/accession-060-97-761/Acc060-97-761-box1-Alito.pdf. It was in the same application in which Alito that he...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
Commentary An online search using the keywords "COVID-19" and "lessons" turns up an astonishing volume and assortment of information: thousands of commentaries, news stories, scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The...
Editors
...Alabama, Klibanoff joined Emory in 2010 at the close of a thirty-six-year career in newspaper journalism in Mississippi and at The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...effort. Even though most residents had no idea what purpose their work served, billboards, posters, and other propaganda warned them to remain tight-lipped. The local newspaper, the Oak Ridge Journal, ran a...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Everyday Black Creativity and its Relationship to Political Change," Feminist Arts News Vol. 2, no. 8 (1988): 8. Imoinda might easily not have survived into the twenty-first century. I had...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...