End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Programs, which provide household supplies, COVID PPE, and infant essentials including formula, clothing, and sanitary products to caregivers of young children, we seek to step in where the state fails...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...from beach to back-dune meadows to maritime forests; beaches where sand is being actively eroded or deposited by longshore drift; a tree "boneyard" with dead trees on a beach signaling...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. Image © Dawoud Bey. In the almost 160 years since the legal dissolution...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...deposits of sand, silt, clay, and calcareous sediments left by the shifting courses of meandering rivers. Within the Yazoo basin, shallow water frequently covered a sizable portion of the floodplain...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
The Dispossession What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Besieged Terrain
..."A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise."1Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac:...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...and construction, Collier Heights represents more than a hallmark of change. The neighborhood became a sanctuary where black Atlantans claimed a space of their own. As I return to the...