Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of minutes, the chaotic scene turned deadly. Steps away from his mother, a thirteen year-old-white boy lay motionless on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. A few hours later,...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...to rethink the geography, chronology, and social relations" of lynching practices (7), it does not quite succeed. The best essays examine lynchings and responses to lynchings outside the South, not...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
Old oak, Conway, South Carolina, 2008
Midway, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2008
Gulf Coast highway, Orange Beach, Alabama, 2006
Cypress swamp, Galloway, Arkansas, 2010
Substantiation
And the way the jury chose to believe the ridiculous stories of the defense. . . —Mamie Till, 1955 . . .with truth absent, hypocrisy and myth have flourished. ....