Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Geography
...years: he’s smaller, his voice lost in the distance between us. 3. On the Gulf and Ship Island Line my father and I walk the rails south toward town....
Elegy for the Native Guards
...monument to some of the dead. Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and brutality. This version of human bondage, nurtured in Charleston and fostered by proponents in the former Confederate states as part of the Lost Cause tradition, has had broad white...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Daniel recalled his time at the plant as a teenager. He was working the skinning line and lost a fingernail. Snatched right off. Another time,...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
Review In May 2015, journalist Steve Inskeep wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that nineteenth-century Cherokee leader John Ross should be featured on the opposite side of...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...