MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...the first black-owned comic book series to reach national acclaim, Brotherman sold approximately 750,000 issues worldwide on the independent circuit. Before Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone Comics made a splash by adding numerous black...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...the June 17 massacre in Charleston's Emmanuel AME Church? Wesley Hetrick, Confederate Statue Protest, Gainesville, Florida, July 9, 2015. Used under a CC-BY-NC license. Historical Background: Race and Roadways Long...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...creatively examining real and imagined spaces and places to address questions of spatial justice. We provide a public, open access platform for work engaged in nuanced discussions of race, space,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...not address the fact that, if whites in El Paso "wanted to preserve" segregation, they must have shared the mayor's "southern" views—irrespective of their sectional origins. (When another mayor—this one...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...longer articles and media productions, that address the continuing public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Queries and abstracts are also welcome. Southern Spaces is an open access,...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...added). What follows is excerpted from Padgett's "Preface" and a glimpse into Bill Smith's participation in the first Atlanta Pride march on June 27, 1971. This is one of the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...a contract. Still, he added, this strike isn't getting the press attention it deserves. Not just newspapers, but unions too need to go back to educating Americans about economics. The...
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....
Failed Memory Exercise
...eyes Where I must have thought I'd spy the brain itself Before my gaze dropped to seize on missing tiles, A blond curl, a plate engraved ACME MFG., INC —...