A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...became glaringly obvious during the pandemic and contributed to numerous missteps in the US response to COVID-19."2Daniel Pollock, "COVID-19 Lessons in Ignorance," Southern Spaces, April 28, 2022, the first in...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...each visual artist produced work that interpreted homeplace. Stephanie Alvarado offered a spoken word performance about the challenges of finding "home" as a South American émigré to New York City. WERC Crew's...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
Today’s post is the first in an ongoing series compiling links related to news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...then shipped to the South where it was used . . . to package the cotton [and] to secure bales of cotton to ships. . . . Those ships would sail out...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...is that monster, the horrifying and grotesque, and yet also strangely romantic space of American racial fantasy. Like anyone else who has studied the history of the US South, when...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...the importance of organized labor to today's workers, we encourage you to read (or reread) some of our pieces on labor in the US South like Fran Ansley and Anne...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...is asked or what individual song, or portion of song, may be playing. While there are indeed many similarities to rap performance as evidenced in other southern black centers like...