The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...due to both budgetary constraints and lack of prosecutorial resources. Today, approximately twenty cold cases remain open and unresolved. While one re-opened case has resulted in a successful prosecution, the...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...white supremacy was central to everyday life, carried out consciously and (at times) unwittingly by mainstreet individuals and their religious and civic institutions.2See for example, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home:...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...for what had been lost, and to work toward a better life here in this world by singing of their pietistic hopes for a brighter day hereafter" (53). The songbooks...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...
"Aint that Something?"
...when she thinks about her papaw Houston: "I could see him in my mind, surrounded by his music, fire going in the stove, not like pioneer days, not that old...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
The Boatloads
...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...delivered "Praise Song for the Day" for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She is also the first recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that "contributes to...
History: The Parlor
...machine during these evening gatherings would probably have been seen as disruptive in more traditional households. Women may have been more likely to use sewing machines during the day and...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...including some that had not been flooded. Many other units searched, especially in the earliest days after the levees broke, including National Guard units, police and fire department representatives from...