Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...time being the bounty of lessons suggests that COVID-19 is America's Teachable Moment Pandemic.4Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Second Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003),...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
There is no place where I can go, or where you can go, and think about, or summon the presence of, or recollect the absences of the ones that made...
Writing Appalachia
...supports the Confederacy. References to incest abound when Kenneth is around. A clearing in the mountains, Sapphire, North Carolina, ca. 1902. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy of the Library...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...the participants share the same world view, and they can have different religious or philosophical convictions. Their concern for the environment can proceed from different sources and they can follow...
Bodies and Souls
...was filmed entirely on-location in Canton. It wasn't until Bodies and Souls that I returned to Mississippi with a camera. Jonestown residents and patients of the clinic, Bodies and Souls, 2005....
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...obtain the funding necessary to provide care. Following the global outbreak of COVID in 2020 many governments created temporary measures to extend aid to vulnerable populations. In the US, these...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...plywood town, Abernathy and many others were arrested during a sit-in in front of the Capitol. Although Resurrection City had ended, the Poor People’s Campaign would be resurrected for several...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Birmingham News, and the Louisville Courier, to investigate case after case of racial injustice in the South and the nation. Her 1948 marriage to Carl Braden, the son of recent...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...peer from below and behind the scaffold, including through a courthouse window where, in one case, the camera's flash caused a man's eyes to emit a spectral glow. Hudson calls...