"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Uprising in the early morning of June 28, 1969, when LGBTQ+ people—particularly those who were Black and Brown—fought back.15Although the most well-known, the Stonewall Uprising was not the first instance...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...process could be limited in some such areas, see Yesenia Barragan, Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) and "Commerce in...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...perpetrated against the dead, but in this instance the violation of their graves involves the destruction of a monument to evolving free black culture in the District of Columbia." Female...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
Opening Cover of Southern Changes, Summer 1996. If International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch's address to the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games is remembered at...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
Introduction On January 15, 1909, US President-elect William Howard Taft attended a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce along with "the cream of Atlanta and the south's commercial factors, professional...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 17, 2021. Photograph by Jae C. Hong. Courtesy of the Associated Press. SARS CoV-2 is not the first viral respiratory pathogen to emerge and spread...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...in the shade. The first picture (on top) is 1987. The second picture (bottom) is 2021. So that's thirty-four years. That's the same cabin and that's the same dock with...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...moments of personal narratives and public events through media of performance, installation, and projection. Memory Flash begins in the Old Fourth Ward, moves to Ponce de Leon Avenue at the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...Union generals, freed people who had been held as slaves began to occupy and farm independently some of the land of the white slavocracy. For instance, the 10,000-acre plantation of...