Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
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,...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...connections invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, and patients to submit essays, photo essays, original documentaries, and digital projects for a forthcoming series titled Public Health...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...was not begun to free the slaves." Not much elaboration follows this forthright assessment. Instead, visitors can turn to two multimedia installations on the subject: the first-person "Journey to Freedom,"...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Mississippi Association of Methodist Ministers and Layman) and publications (e.g. The Baptist Record) utilized Biblical narratives as well as the artful crafting and support of state policy in an effort...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...guitarist Matthew Sweet, Oh-OK released Furthermore What, a twelve-inch record, again on the DB label. The notoriously stingy Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau praised this second effort and awarded...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...base at Fort McClellan, one of two US military installations on which the city's economy depended. Highly publicized trials against the agro-chemical company Monsanto for PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) pollution prompted...
How I Shed My Skin
...to attend his fortieth high school class reunion. There, a black preacher first tells a joke at his expense then makes an anti-Semitic comment—southern religiosity (whether black or white) again...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...phenomenon," writes Filene, "is that even as the artists it features gain a degree of fame and fortune and a passel of awards, the revival in several key respects holds...