COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...numbers of people who survived the acute phase of their infections are affected by long-term sequelae. Perhaps we now know better the enormity and implications of what was missing in...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...here in the different city, bathing in the yellow light as the river slips beneath the bridge, flickering like a candle or like the body or like the bodies lit...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...the inequalities within this imagined society; inequalities that become apparent as the characters visit different districts. In the following clip, Dawud Anyabwile describes how Big City can be interpreted as...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...experienced an influx of Latino immigrants after 2000, as the overall Latino population of Durham grew rapidly. With a mix of single-family homes and apartment complexes built during different periods, the...
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...of Congress's Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, I thought that these images of Floridian workers packing and canning grapefruits and oranges were dramatically different than other,...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...of street life. As for hip-hop, most of the nationally famous artists in that genre have emerged from some sort of local scene that, while aesthetically different from DC's go-go,...