Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland. Eight locations are planning for ceremonies and/or marker installations: Boston (scheduled for August 23, 2015); Bristol, Rhode Island; Annapolis, Maryland (scheduled for February, 2015);...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...present.8Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses," Critical Inquiry 35 no. 2, (Winter 2009): 212. The Anthropocene is a term coined in the 1980s and later popularized by the...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Act's Section 2 to make it more difficult to win a case challenging laws that restrict voting procedures.1 Steve Suitts, "Undoing the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, July 12, 2021,...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically “female” positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
Review Released on July 1, 2012, Anne Braden: Southern Patriot examines the remarkable life of civil rights activist Anne Braden in the context of the social justice movements of her...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Inc., Publishers, 2001); Rob Amberg, Sodom Laurel Album (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002); Rah Bickley, "Sam F. Vance, Jr. 'Character-Taker': The Faces of Small-Town and Rural North...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...life in a motor vehicle crash or accident. One commemorates the loss of a beloved pet. Tom Zarilli, Wilting plush toys, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. These memorials remind us of the...