Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...1961. Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying seven Freedom Riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled south from Atlanta...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Boatlift, the UMAPs work camps, the Grey Period, and the Special Period of Peace). The Mariel Boatlift consitutes the single largest mass migration from Cuba in its history. From April...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Zircon
...The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, is forthcoming in April 2016. In addition, Morgan is author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays,...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Emma Lirette, "Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters," Southern Spaces, April 17, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/blog/category-3-gentrification-new-orleanss-population-trends-and-hostility-internet-commenters. Campanella's characterization of black New Orleanians is as...
Work
...Lejeune and a year in Irmo, South Carolina. On April Fool's Day 2000, she married a cowboy and moved to middle Tennessee, where her husband encouraged her to ride horses...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
Bangladesh. Map by Mysid. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license: CC BY-SA 4.0. As the world moves into its fourth year since the advent of COVID-19, the pandemic remains...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...flow before premiering The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey at a festival in South Carolina in April 2018. Ryan Gainey made and collected beautiful things. We are...