Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...was many things to us," he recalled. "Preacher, prophet, picker, poet. He had an uncanny way of making whoever gathered around him feel like they were part of the mix,...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...my way out, I was struck by the last photograph positioned to the right of the exit: a dim shot of Lake Erie, its grey waves rolling into the horizon....
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...the group tambourined their way to the park and called to motel balconies: "Join us!" "This is just like the early anti-war marches," one straight-identified protester marveled, "the way passers-by...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Studying As the Time Roll On Strutting That Thing Tin Top Alley (Yonder Goes My Baby) Warren, J.W. (1981, 1982) Blue Hawaii Careless Love Corrinna Highway 51 Hoboing My Way...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Goetz, "displaced an estimated one million people from the time of its enactment in 1949 to 1965… So, too, the development of the interstate highway system, as it carved its...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...area because the new road is one way of getting from Johnson City to Asheville as fast as you can. The people that are passing this road (Highway 23) right...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...right-wing think tanks and "public interest" propaganda outlets. After crushing a number of moderate North Carolina Republicans over the last ten years by funding their more conservative opponents, he gained...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...New Orleans artists and personalities like Kenneth "DJ Chicken" Williams Jr. and Wayne "Wild Wayne" Benjamin started internet-based radio and mixtape projects geared toward those trying to find and/or reconnect...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...farmers could borrow from banks, struggling farmers often turned to the FHA, the lender of last resort. County FHA supervisors had absolute control over which farmers received loans, and their...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...