Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...
Work
...changing headings on library cards, and cleaning houses, to working as a chair-side dental assistant, a secretary in an occupational therapy unit, and a counselor to prisoners in a minimum-security...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...filthy Fleet: the open sewer runs foul with "grease, and hair of meazled [leprous] dogs; / The heads, houghs [hocks], entrailes, and hides of hogs."3Jenny Price, "Thirteen Ways of Seeing...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...by muscle car styles which can involve pneumatic operations such as “air rides.” Not driven daily, the club cars are kept garaged or covered. Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams, Homecoming...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...a high chair and toy wheelbarrow signified objects of importance in his life. A woman named "Lize Lundy," who was fond of wearing a new bonnet to church each Sunday,...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...Young reads “Money Road” About Kevin Young Kevin Young is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Book of Hours, which was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air," and...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...medium format camera. When I went to reshoot the 35 millimeter images like this pair, I dug out my old 1980 Nikon F2 and got it cleaned and lubed in...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...breath, not calm, but a sharp and sudden gasp, like the sound of a drowning body finally breaking through the line between water and air. This sound echoes Christina Sharpe’s...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...abandoned. If escape depends on someone who rises above despair and abuse, then most will be stuck. The role of public policy and a political solution to poverty is to...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...sending a fine mist of blood into the air above Patsey's head. As viewers, we see the shot from just in front of Patsey, foregrounding her agony, but not letting...