Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...
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...
Anniversary
...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...ways, but it was also often accomplished through overt tactics such as racially restrictive covenants that simply stated 'said property shall not be sold to nor occupied by Negroes, nor...
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...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
"A flurry of patents [for roller coaster designs] issued in 1884 coincides approximately with Thompson's ride at Coney Island. The patents of Wood (US #291,261 Circular Gravity-Railway) and Stevens (US...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...and weekly practice offer immigrants "…a way to recreate social ties and generate narratives of self-worth despite structural challenges to individual and collective mobility." The cornerstone of the collusio—harnessing and...