2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...a part of the Callaloo Conference, which we are hosting this year at Emory, an event that would not be possible without our many generous sponsors across campus, the work...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...an equally parallel hostility to the welfare state. Goetz argues, this "radical remaking of public housing" marked by a turn to market-driven policies heralded "an important watershed moment in American...
Mapping Souths
...on either side of them, diverse, independent, hostile to each other and capable of being at best but 'unequally yoked together,' and yet Mr. Trescott [sic] with great profoundness, announces...
The Cobb County Braves
...Health Image Library, 1485. Originally called Centennial Olympic Stadium—the site was constructed for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics—the stadium hosted athletics competitions and opening and closing ceremonies. S. Zebulon Baker and...
Topeka newspapers
...colored Knights of Pythias of the state, and it was his Knights of Pythias badge that aroused the southern hostility of the Texans. They didn't like to see a "nigger"...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...theological questions. Among her books are Storming Heaven (1987), Saints and Villains (1998), The Unquiet Earth (1987), and Emily's Ghost (2009). Giardina is an ordained Episcopal Church deacon, a community...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Who Can't Be Held'": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia," Southern Spaces, November 8, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/holding-those-who-cant-be-held-reenacting-lynching-moores-ford-georgia. At the time, organizers noted that the motorcade offered protection through potentially hostile...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...and Annie Dillard, as well as ecologist Eugene Odum. This creative initiative also resulted in the Genesis Project, which focused more on the natural sciences and hosted scientists for on-site...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...While four millions slaves all pining And dying 'neath the Tyrant's hand. See the "blood-stained" Christian banner Followed by a host of saints (?)3Question mark appears in the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...fleeting visions of this barnacled ghost ship. If you caught and ate it, they said, you'd gain all the wisdom of a century. It was part whale. Too big for...