LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Museum serves as one of Atlanta's premiere institutions of African American and African diasporic art. The July 12, 2015, event was titled #homeplace, an homage to bell hooks's essay about black women's homes as sites of resistance and to Hammonds...
Local Color
...often used dialect to achieve less patronizing, more flexible versions of life in community. African American men and women also wrote about a racialized social politics (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...
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...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Kennedy, Jr.'s posters and artists' books memorialize and celebrate African American history and culture. His work, housed in the Kennedy & Sons Collection in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book...
Confederate headstone in American cemetery, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil, 2010
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...January, Tim Scott will be the only African American in the Senate and just the fifth to serve since Reconstruction. Scott is the first African American Senator in South Carolina's...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets in 1989, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature in 1991....