Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Charleston County in 1963, which initiated desegregation throughout the state nearly a decade after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. The steeple of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church,...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...portrait of the nineteenth century intellectual giant and his era. Douglass's early years and later family life are chronicled, along with a meticulous account of his public presence and evolving...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...nor answer. Instead, it leaves us with a relentless urge to question topped by an indigestion. While Walker is clearly critical of Domino Foods, and, by extension, of slavery, economic,...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...the group tambourined their way to the park and called to motel balconies: "Join us!" "This is just like the early anti-war marches," one straight-identified protester marveled, "the way passers-by...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...Early in the COVID-19 epidemic, BRAC teamed up with Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) and Bangladesh Baptist Church Fellowship (BBCF) to train their directors on best practices. Local representatives of UNICEF,...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and English colonization of Sapelo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries heavily modified the local ecosystems. Following the American Revolution, alteration of the local environment continued throughout the early to...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, details the role of plantation politics, food scarcity, and Black autonomy across the Delta from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. In...
Bricking the Church
...wash of gravestones west, they've buried the wooden snow that answered sarvis in bloom and early morning fogs, in brick, a crust the same dull red as clay in nearby...