How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Midway, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2008
Gulf Coast highway, Orange Beach, Alabama, 2006
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the Forsyth and Son Grocery on the Birmingham Highway, Route 202, about five miles west of Anniston, one attacker hurled a firebomb into the bus. The riders trapped inside the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....
Cypress swamp, Galloway, Arkansas, 2010
Inside Poor Monkey's
...reads "For Sale" on one side, and is flipped over to reveal "Private Property." Another reads "Beer Drinkers Make Better Lovers," with "3 Way or 4 Way" on the reverse. ...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...prevent us from the familiar condition that when at home the protagonist so often wishes to be away, and when away the deepest wish is often to be at home....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...with other men. He faced his world and lived in it—and in doing so, he proved in some ways resourceful and thoughtful, in other ways close-minded and even racist; he...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...