Mississippi: State of Confession
...Mississippi Association of Methodist Ministers and Layman) and publications (e.g. The Baptist Record) utilized Biblical narratives as well as the artful crafting and support of state policy in an effort...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of the enslaved. Another screen drops to ground level, cutting back and forth between close ups of the lush green grass and sharp stalks of sugarcane leaves piercing from the dirt...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...the university’s expansion efforts during the early and mid-twentieth century, emphasizing the conscious effort to improve its research capacity and capture federal research and development dollars in the 1950s. The...
Zircon
...The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, is forthcoming in April 2016. In addition, Morgan is author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays,...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...sometimes draw between human and animal worlds. Central to the concept of coexistence is modifying the behavior of both human and animal, requiring an ongoing effort to sustain a dialogue-of-sorts...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...was not begun to free the slaves." Not much elaboration follows this forthright assessment. Instead, visitors can turn to two multimedia installations on the subject: the first-person "Journey to Freedom,"...
Bricking the Church
...a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, North Star, is forthcoming in 2015. In addition,...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...guitarist Matthew Sweet, Oh-OK released Furthermore What, a twelve-inch record, again on the DB label. The notoriously stingy Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau praised this second effort and awarded...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...base at Fort McClellan, one of two US military installations on which the city's economy depended. Highly publicized trials against the agro-chemical company Monsanto for PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) pollution prompted...