Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...explicit commentary than most of the photographs selected for his photo essay, indicating his intention to elicit empathy over outrage. However powerful Parks's empathetic portrayals seem today, Berger cites recent...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
Mapping Souths
...his map of the South, too, terminates in a project of warfare, this one to suppress the South's revolutionary intentions. Today, the positions staked out by Trescot and Marx seem...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...the Super’s flood lights now circling us and flashin’ like a prison yard counter escape warden super packin' something else we’re past and out I look at Sadie she whispers...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
From Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968): I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. Images of all...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...are vast tracts of land that aren't going to be destroyed, at least not anytime soon, and I can escape into those. That helps to ameliorate the pain I feel...