Sapelo Island Flyover
...the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Michael Page is lecturer in geospatial sciences and technology at Emory. Shannon O'Daniel is an educational analyst with Emory's Library and Information Technology Services....
Quilting Conversation
...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
Introduction The soil in the Mississippi Delta has everything a planter needs. Rooted in shallow soils, elm, cottonwood, and pecan trees line the hilly landscapes of eastern and southern Mississippi....
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, developed by professors David Eltis of Emory University and P. David Richardson of the University of Hull, the remembrance ceremonies at these ports present the history of the...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...level. This allowed organizations like ESA to continue our mutual aid work. But when the US announced the end of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Declaration on May...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...and narrow windows, and the blasts of thunder shaking the walls evoke the history of slavery. Like naïve Hansel and Gretel, we seek shelter and sugar. Walker describes her work...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Charles, there was John Greenwell, who ran away from Alabama to Atlanta and found a new home at the Sweet Gum Head. John became Rachel Wells—and Rachel became a drag...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...troubling as that holding is, the opinion also constitutes a major, often ignored long-term impact on school desegregation. Today most students attending private schools are in religious schools, and most...