Bodies and Souls
...working in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. One of our primary foci at the time was racial and gender disparities in...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Whiskey and Geography
Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the wounded teenager, later identified as Timothy Weber, died in the local hospital. "That single shot," New York Times journalist Bob Herbert reported in 2007, "set in motion a tale...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...read the late twentieth century writings of Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, and Samuel R. Delany alongside the visual images of early 20th century artists, like Aaron Douglas. Exploring connections across genres and time periods, as...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...crying. By this time friends from other places had taken the kids somewhere else. One of the things that struck me the most when I took the food down was...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...attention on how the “injuries of time and weather” transform both the church and surrounding landscape.8Tom Rankin, “The Injuries of Time and Weather,” Southern Cultures 13, No. 2, (Summer 2007):...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...prosecution of the perpetrators. The case remains officially unsolved. With the emergence of the third Klan, from about 1950, armed whites frequently drove through African American neighborhoods, at times firing shots....