Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...be "the president of all the people." But most of the people in this seventy-percent African American city demonstrated their solidarity by staying away. "McCain's policies unify us," said lawyer...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...City Writers Project, 2008) and Circling Home (University of Georgia Press, 2007). He is a frequent guest blogger on The Best American Poetry, and one of his poems, "The Truth...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...York City: Penguin, 2011) and are reprinted here courtesy of Penguin Books. "Heaven" and "Rearview Mirror" appeared in Sigodlin (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990) and are reprinted here courtesy...
City Hall sleeps, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...models because of its non-hierachal emphasis on mutualism rather than models that maintain divisions between givers and receivers. Mutual aid is rooted in reciprocity. Endstate ATL took advantage of these...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...highway in an unexpected and sudden manner. Although a few mark locations where individuals died as a result of roadside gunfire or attack, the majority of shrines commemorate loss of...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...inner city school, Charlotte, North Carolina, Feburary 21, 1973. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/ds.00762. As new schools opened, the...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Tennessee Tri-Cities area (Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City). Starting in 1994, I began photographing, interviewing, and collecting objects to document the cutting of a nine-mile stretch of...