Writing Appalachia
...supports the Confederacy. References to incest abound when Kenneth is around. A clearing in the mountains, Sapphire, North Carolina, ca. 1902. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy of the Library...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...the participants share the same world view, and they can have different religious or philosophical convictions. Their concern for the environment can proceed from different sources and they can follow...
Bodies and Souls
...was filmed entirely on-location in Canton. It wasn't until Bodies and Souls that I returned to Mississippi with a camera. Jonestown residents and patients of the clinic, Bodies and Souls, 2005....
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...In 2019 the Court held in a case concerning North Carolina's Congressional reapportionment that federal courts cannot become involved in partisan gerrymandering since it would involve the courts in allocating...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...obtain the funding necessary to provide care. Following the global outbreak of COVID in 2020 many governments created temporary measures to extend aid to vulnerable populations. In the US, these...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...plywood town, Abernathy and many others were arrested during a sit-in in front of the Capitol. Although Resurrection City had ended, the Poor People’s Campaign would be resurrected for several...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...peer from below and behind the scaffold, including through a courthouse window where, in one case, the camera's flash caused a man's eyes to emit a spectral glow. Hudson calls...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...enormous human cost of our national obsession with cars and car culture, an aspect of American life that has flourished in the US South and in popular culture representations of...