The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...places on petitioners’ exercise of their religious beliefs.”5Bob Jones Univ. v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983). But barely a year after the Bob Jones decision, the Supreme Court slammed...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...prison; by the 1990s, the incarceration rate had more than doubled, making African Americans seven times as likely as whites to do jail time.5Christopher J. Lyons and Becky Pettit, “Compounded...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...the audience, especially from Bradd Shore, Lynn Linnemeier and Kevin Sipp and am grateful for insights into ritual and reenactment from Pete Richardson and Rick Parmentier. I also am grateful...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
Review In 1971, a Walker Evans retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art inspired critic Hilton Kramer to reflect on the Evan's enduring influence: "For how many of us, I...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...