The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. The first, Friendship Baptist Church, was founded before the end of the Civil War and has stood at its current location since 1880. Spelman and Morehouse Colleges were...
Leavenworth newspaper
Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Savannah, or New York, or Providence, or the Ohio River, or better still, on the banks of the Mississippi. —Toni Morrison1Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road," World Journal of...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the public schoolchildren in twenty-one states were eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, a benefit available only to families living in poverty or near-poverty. The report further documents that...
When the Border Crossed Me
...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...depicts Haitians traveling by passenger jet and wooden boat to Miami, framing Rey and Stepick's emphasis on religious exchange and serving as a devotional reminder of the journeys between these...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50 smellin’ like crackers and peanut...
Runaway
Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...himself), the study of Confederate literature illuminates "the still-shadowy relationship between literature and nationalism" by enabling scholars to explore a concentrated, intense effort of novelists, poets, and critics to write...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...Hill (used previously by the Spanish military for the transmission of communications), Armstrong figuratively dominates the landscape by sweeping his arms over the mountains. Later he inscribes relevant cartographical information...