Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...food and nourishment motivated sharecroppers, farmers, and rural working-class families on the periphery of Black life in the US to “[pave] the way for new articulations of civil rights activism.”4Smith,...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...away, yielded nothing. Not a clue. John Howard, Cemetery at Rowher, Arkansas, concentration camp, 2004. A full day after he'd gone AWOL, John Yoshida had gotten little further than a...
Geography
...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else. 2. At...
Letter: Blues
...And Washington, and you, Love — states away. The clouds are flat. The sky is going grey. I'm fiddling with the juice jug, honey pot, White chrysanthemums that I just...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...graduate, Dowda frequently presents throughout the Atlanta metro area. Dowda's work has appeared in Oxford American, Bad at Sports, ArtsATL, BURNAWAY, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Atlanta Magazine. She has exhibited...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...students and schools, and Sisimpur was also warmly received by parents and teachers. Unfortunately, this project began halfway through BRAC's wider Covid education initiatives, and needed more time and closer...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway. The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Piedmont Blues
...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....