Midway, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2008
Gulf Coast highway, Orange Beach, Alabama, 2006
Cypress swamp, Galloway, Arkansas, 2010
Substantiation
And the way the jury chose to believe the ridiculous stories of the defense. . . —Mamie Till, 1955 . . .with truth absent, hypocrisy and myth have flourished. ....
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the Forsyth and Son Grocery on the Birmingham Highway, Route 202, about five miles west of Anniston, one attacker hurled a firebomb into the bus. The riders trapped inside the...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...site above McRoberts, Kentucky, 2005. The Old Road had once been the only way to Charleston, before the four-lane highway — still new to Lydde — went in. They wound...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...and Indianans for the most part found ways of avoiding conflict. "Because the Ohio River was a shared space," Salafia writes, "a highway that united residents and connected them to...
When the Border Crossed Me
...marketing that there was no way I could pick everything I could sell. Orders had piled up, and the farmers' market was just a few days away. The small group...