Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...celebration of Biggers's thirtieth anniversary at TSU, a number of former students wrote to express gratitude to their teacher. "Thanks for being a guiding light for young black artists," wrote...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...tons of toxic coal ash from wet-storage impoundments near the Wateree River. The company must move the coal ash into lined landfill storage away from the river or have it...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expected of us in the academy. While "Making Art" is in some few ways similar to our New Orleans "summit," we, during this conference here at Emory University, want to...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...a way to defund reform that might provide citizenship to anyone not lawfully in the US. Hostility to immigrants has a long tradition in the white South, but it remains a...
#209, Long Meter
...our best spices flow abroad To entertain our Saviour God; And faith and love and joy appear, And every grace be active here. From Lloyd, Benjamin,...