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...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...published in 1852, and Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter’s Northern Bride (1854). All of these novels were written (or revised) within the shadow of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and they can...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...enormous human cost of our national obsession with cars and car culture, an aspect of American life that has flourished in the US South and in popular culture representations of...