2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...The Best American Poetry, and in Nikki Giovanni's 100 Best African American Poems. Brown holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans,...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
Clipping: "...The establishment of the Atlanta and Edgewood line was soon followed by the organization of the Fulton County Street Railway Company, which in the same year built a single...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...license plate on my car (I sport a Trout Unlimited tag). And I have sought ways to draw my rural roots closer to my city self. Part of staying connected...
Stones and Shadows
...sound of traffic from the highway is insufferable. I smile at my father and try to think of kind things to say to him. He smiles. But driving home, he...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...to rethink our approach to Wikipedia and to train some of our newer editorial associates in best-practices. Then, in the middle of March, I got to be part of a...
Mapping Souths
...on either side of them, diverse, independent, hostile to each other and capable of being at best but 'unequally yoked together,' and yet Mr. Trescott [sic] with great profoundness, announces...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Award for Best Song. Juan Logan, Welcome Home video in its exhibit context, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. The blank silhouette that appears on the Wallpaper of Background...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of Civil War reenactors, at best, and, at worst, modern Kluxers, trying to mainstream. Southern whites have celebrated the family, racial, and historical meanings of the Lost Cause, but these...