Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the Unitarian Universalist Association 3 (January/February 1989): 4. Plaza de la Constitution, St. Augustine, Florida, October 6, 2013. Participants placing carnations representing the 55 nations of Africa in a basket...
Writing Appalachia
...the 1930s. Musician Laney Sullivan of the band Høly River looks up at some of the last remaining trees left uncut along the Mountain Valley Pipeline route in Elliston, Virginia,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...aims in terms of "eco-socialism," others will prefer thinking in terms of a "citizen revolution."14For an eloquent defence of the eco-socialist vision, see Paul Magnette, La vie large (Paris: La...
Bodies and Souls
...to Kill one year later. The mayoral race ended in threats of a riot. One year later, a race riot was the climactic scene in A Time to Kill, which...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...application for a political appointment as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 1985, he wrote, "In college, I developed a deep interest in constitutional law, motivated in large part by disagreement...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...state in the nation to relax quarantine restrictions, even as Kiesha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta, sought to retain many protective measures. Initial reporting that the virus would largely...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Emory University. Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, including Ralph David Abernathy, Ella Baker, Joseph E. Lowery, Bayard Rustin, Fred Shuttlesworth, and...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...who worked with Braden across the decades recount stories of her dedication and vision. Brief, laudatory vignettes by Cornel West, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Reverend C.T. Vivian, and Angela Davis underscore...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...2 (2007): 9. Swap out "the United States" for "the US South," and insert some of Evans's contemporaries, including Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Ben Shahn, Marion-Post Wolcott, and Margaret Bourke-White, and...