"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
Introduction (Given by Margaret Rose Gladney) Minnie Bruce Pratt was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, in the hospital closest to her hometown of Centreville. She graduated from Bibb...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...The Selected Shepherd, you present a generally equal number from each of his six collections, with a little bit more from Angel, Interrupted. What were you looking for as you...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...Language Association (MLA) announced that its journals (PMLA, Profession, and the bulletins of the Association for Departments of English and Association for Departments of Foreign Languages) have adopted new "open-access-friendly"...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...she traverses the squishy soil around her claptrap, rickety house. In the film's opening scenes the screen floods with light when the Bathtub's bright revelry spills over and neons the...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...State Commission of Forestry. Courtesy of Black and white negatives of South Carolina State Parks, 1934–1967 collection, Open Parks Network, Clemson University and National Park Service. By the late 1930s,...