Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Restraints: Open and Hidden" however, these seemingly prosaic images prompted threats and persecution from white townspeople as well as local officials, and cost one family member her job. The calm...
Aftermath
...hawk has taken back the air above new grass, and the doe again can hide her young. I can tell you now I crossed that field, weeks before the first...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Gal Blues Come From Texas Jack of Diamonds Good Morning, Lil School Girl Hard Luck Blues The Howling Wolf Oh, Red Rocking Chair Blues Segregation Blues So Sweet Them Greasy...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...City,” Huntsville, this was a region without gigantic airports, gleaming bank headquarters, tangled roadways, and spaghetti junctions. By the 1970s, when several band members reached high school, it was a...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...did you start playing guitar? Jim Bunkley: I came up, my brothers had one, and me and my sister used to get up on a chair because we couldn’t hold...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...turns of phrase and in their relationship to the popular tunes with which Simpson chose to pair them. Simpson notes that "To the White People of America" should be sung...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
How I Shed My Skin
...and partial desegregation" (40) of their sixth grade classroom in rural Jones County, North Carolina, where public schools officially desegregated under a begrudging gradualist "Freedom of Choice" plan. Describing himself...