Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...October 11, 2007–February 3, 2008 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 2–June 8, 2008 "It's interesting that as soon as you start telling the story of racism, you start reliving...
Birth Right
...Statistics. Infant Mortality Slideshow. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Public Health, 2008. Advocates assert that midwives could also help lower the state's high infant mortality rate of 9.5 deaths per 1,000...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...were characteristic of the generations before them."16Beverly Patterson. The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches. University of Illinois Press, 1995, 166-167. As folklorist John Bealle has...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...a sense, the study of race has no geographical limits. The force of racism is global. The specific impact of race, however, will vary nationally and regionally. In the United...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...vaccines available for over two years. Shutdowns and enforced quarantines ended, even in holdout nations. The WHO's announcement signaled that other countries, including the United States, would follow suit if...