California Creek, North Carolina
...I-26 West, near mile 7, California Creek, NC 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "I really can't comprehend the road or what it might look like years from now. I've...
Scarecrow
...cling to your journey — A long walk on yellow brick, two taps From a wizard's wand. I like to think Of these cornrows as a kind of maze, Imagine...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...tribe is strong behind our drums and sliced trees. We are strong against these whites with sticks like dirty breath, these silly children snatching toys. They do not see me....
At Liberty (1964)
Louis Allen, 31 January 1964, Liberty, Mississippi The morning train is turning like a compass needle now the night has folded all its schedules in the stands of pine...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...my forgetting The love of a hand Hungry for reflex, a hand that took No thought of its target Like hail from a blind sky, Involuntary, fast, but brutal In...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Like Men': The Deacons for Defense and Justice," Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 38, no. 1 (1997): 43. Roadways remained dangerous spaces throughout the civil rights...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...documentary scene a dream-like quality that blurs past and present. The photograph does not so much revel in nostalgia for a lost world as it disorients the viewer’s sense of...
Birdhouses
...a nuthatch. But as one said when I asked why he creates birdhouses and places them in his yard, "I guess I just like the idea of birds." Pines in...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the standard for courage and constancy, would first support Hillary, then switch to Barack Obama. For Hillary, observed an NPR commentator about this latest "battle of Selma," it's "almost like...
When the Border Crossed Me
...farm. As I reached to shake their hands, I felt a powerful sense of relief wash over me. I felt like crying. I had been successful enough with my farm...