Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...and therefore, "there is a clear relationship between tolerance and openness" about one's sexuality.7Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?" Stephens-Davidowitz buys into a narrative with a history. Mississippi has...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...father of Custis, giving him parental advice that betrayed exasperation over the lackadaisical manner in which the boy pursued his studies. With bequests from the Mount Vernon estate, which included...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...they are often given few opportunities to better understand its complicated past. Cuban refugees aboard the Captain Preston who came to the United States during the Mariel Boatlift, Miami, Florida,...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality," she writes.9Regrettably, in referring to the origins of the...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
The Change
...their slaves they brought from Africa when they sold our ancestors as slaves in the Middle East, that then the tobacco was sacred to all of us and we prayed...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...prospered. I could have peeked around a corner and seen them joshing between shifts, throwing cubes of ice, concealed in their pockets, at each other's backsides. At lunchtime, I would...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...
The Black Belt
...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...