A City Divided
...the progress of park-neighborhood buying and building. In one of his regular columns on "Atlanta Dirt," real-estate investor and agent George Adair described his drive through Ansley Park, noting its...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Jesse Jackson in 2003 warned against nostalgia, against resting on laurels and letting the memorial rituals displace present-day activism: "Beyond the bridge is crippling poverty, people working without fair wages."5Jannell...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...making a circuit through his neighborhood, beginning at Brighton, then on to adjoining places, Waverly, Fair Oaks, Beau Pres, Forest, and back to Grove. These rebels made some progress in...
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...it tight to reveal the beginning bump of her pregnancy. The three sisters’ faces and Edith’s nightgown evoke the girls these sisters have been even as Ruth’s hair rollers, Mary’s...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Gay Content Link says, "If you read only one book of poetry this year, The Dirt She Ate should be it." Recently Pratt served as the Jane Watson Irwin Chair...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...Black men and women into jail to be used as prison labor on the pretext of being "vagrants" because they had wandered searching for less oppressive landlords or more fair...