The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...the IRS, charging that its standards and procedures were inadequate to fulfill its obligation to deny tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools. In 1984, the US Supreme Court held...
Residues of Border Control
...crossers to hide their identity, practices that will continue to characterize their lives as undocumented immigrants in the United States. The violence involved in border control is narrated through its...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...is history's waning attention to the enslaved. Less interested in the process of internal migration than in slaves' experiences, Pargas positions slaves at the center of an economy built almost...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. (W.E.B. DuBois, "Of the Sorrow Songs," The Souls...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the journey. There is no small bench by the road, there is not even a tree scored and initialized that I can visit, or you can visit, in Charleston, or...
Bodies and Souls
...located in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Created by Wikimedia Commons user Arkyan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. After making Waking in Mississippi, I moved to Boston where I spent four years...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...successful landscaper in the 1980s. He is renowned for pairing English garden aesthetics with native plants of the southeastern United States. As is evident in the introduction of this short...
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
...the pandemic, but their work became much more indispensable in its wake. The increase in groups doing this aid work was significant, especially in red states where Republican leadership champions...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...including the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the...