An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...coming from the east and you have the sea level rise coming from the west. Those two are coming together in the same place and having this devastating effect. Dimmitt:...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...in telling ways. He rightly challenges assumptions that the West was a racial utopia that differed markedly from the racist reality to the East, as "the western frontier did not...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...2: Gadsen discusses segregation and the Tuskegee Airmen as well as the NAACP’s efforts to desegregate the military Part 3: Gadsen explores the significance of Tuskegee as the location for...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...symbolic significance for many infrequent visitors and residents alike has acted as both a blessing and a curse. Watts and Porter offer grounded theory as well, encouraging creolization and diaspora...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...southern identity as much as I have hoped for at least a temporary ban on men in cowboy hats recording songs about the joys of small town southern life. This...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...than 2.4 million extremely poor children—42 percent of the nation's total—lived in the South. Ten of the eleven states in the nation where at least one in every ten children...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
Essay Al Clayton, Will Campbell, 1975. The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a "renegade" Baptist preacher whose unorthodox ministry to a far-flung parish of unchurched souls was the signifying hallmark of...
Anniversary
...York reads the poem "Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road." Poem text. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the Alabama Department of Transportation, describes the significance of the attack near Anniston: "The incident served to strengthen the resolve for the civil rights movement."3Historical marker placed by the Theta...
The Change
...burned in fires, at least to the third degree, when the raw, oozing, hives that covered ninety-eight percent of our bodies from the sprays ordered by the FDA and spread...