Residues of Border Control
...the United States, or suggest journeys truncated by border enforcement violence.1All photographs: Susan Harbage Page, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Copyright © 2009 and 2010. All rights reserved. Susan Harbage Page, Path...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...exclusively on a fluid population of bound workers. "Indeed," as Pargas notes, "no studies have attempted to compare the experiences of interstate, local, and urban slave migrants" (4). Pargas draws...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...been enslaved by Creek slaveowners—was particularly painful. As J.P. remarked, "So many thousands gone from here. We had hoped our kin, though in bondage to the Creek, would have finally...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...and why. Cover of Michael Lewis's The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (New York: W.W. Norton, 2021). A case in point and cause for concern is Michael Lewis's bestselling The Premonition: A...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) was established in 2011 to honor and commemorate the two million captive Africans who died during the Middle Passage from Africa to the...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...en commun of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's party La France Insoumise. In their programme for l'Union Populaire in the 2022 presidential elections examining the major challenges today, the party advocates a radical...
Bodies and Souls
...immersive style for Bodies and Souls. My goal was to allow the viewer an opportunity to feel part of Jonestown, to feel immersed in the fabric of the community, to...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...video, Gainey’s gardens become fields of memory. He participates in seed saving movements that value heirloom plants, both botanically and culturally. He sees plants as part of larger historical narratives,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...with Warren Court decisions, particularly in . . . reapportionment."3Mark Sullivan, Memorandum for Mark Levin, Dec. 12, 1985, https://www.archives.gov/files/news/samuel-alito/accession-060-97-761/Acc060-97-761-box1-Alito.pdf. It was in the same application in which Alito that he...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...COVID-19 Pandemic," Georgetown University Beeckcenter, October 4, 2022, https://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/four-key-takeaways-from-mutual-aid-organizing-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/. Georgia has similar organizations. Community Movement Builders developed stabilization programs that include rent/mortgage payments as well as groceries in their efforts...