LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...development projects that map new bastions of commerce onto existing urban footprints. Many mixed-use projects include residential neighborhoods replete with spaces targeting Atlanta's young creatives: performance venues for live music and art shows, community...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
Review Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor's The End of Consensus is a thoroughly researched, multidimensional look at popular support for student assignment policies in the Wake County, North...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...hands, and ultimately, lives, in the plantation machinery of sugar-cane slavery and sugar processing as though in a sacrifice devoid of sacredness and rituals. French philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvetius proclaims in...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...was when O'Connor lived there with her mother Regina Cline O'Connor. It has two large front parlors with a central hallway on the ground floor. O'Connor's bedroom and writing place...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...an Emory professor, I will add that it is the first and foremost language of the campus where I teach. Creek people lived at Emory's exact location prior to the...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...
The Border South
Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...the narrative he crafts. He writes: "As for me, [the book is] something of a memoir. In many ways, John and Bill and I have lived the same life, in...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...that would feed and train them to become more self-sufficient—financially and politically—on the land where they lived, worked, and sought to thrive was a radical feat reshaping what freedom could...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Percy was "sexually sequestered" and "closed his eyes to the cultural maze in which he lived." Richard King reads Percy's writing as revealing "a man divided within himself and unable...