Brushes with War
...their own soil. Michael D. Fay at work at a big airbase called TQ (Al-Taqaddum), Iraq, March 2006. Photograph courtesy of the artist. Life in Camp, Part...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...it tight to reveal the beginning bump of her pregnancy. The three sisters’ faces and Edith’s nightgown evoke the girls these sisters have been even as Ruth’s hair rollers, Mary’s...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Gay Content Link says, "If you read only one book of poetry this year, The Dirt She Ate should be it." Recently Pratt served as the Jane Watson Irwin Chair...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
The Liminal Site
...from Jefferson County's annual landfill digs. Closer to the terraces are my wife's rosebushes (increasingly shaded out as the woods behind continue to grow) and a pair of fastigiate Graham...
Mississippi Delta
...Jim Crow caste system. Aaron Henry, chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, speaks before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22,...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...Black men and women into jail to be used as prison labor on the pretext of being "vagrants" because they had wandered searching for less oppressive landlords or more fair...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...effort by then seems to have focused on locating bodies and identifying hazards such as instability in waterlogged structures and toxic air quality inside flood-marinated buildings. The discovery of bodies...
Topeka newspapers
...putting on such "airs," and proceeded to adopt the regulation Dixie method for teaching the negro his place.... Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...