Consolation
If we could take them back, swinging by the Little Kitchen's shadow on Jefferson Street and waving them in as they were, Livingston, Alexander, Britt, and York, piling together on...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...widow to no one's surprise, and she buried him close beside the one whose sons clung to her at the funeral tighter than her own children. But little of that...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...Pallet on Your Floor," "Casey Jones," "Creole Belle" — and return to Mississippi and die. He was a little man, but cathedrals lit up in his hands. When Segovia heard...
Darkly
...condemn is easy, you said, to condemn is to turn away where no one will ever understand. So, I go back, downtown, to Jefferson Street, though their haven, their Little...
Like Father
...band binds the morning paper. My father's embrace tightens. Grits Stiffen. I hug back Like a little boy, gripping To prove his handshake. Daddy squeezes me close, But I cannot...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Just as abolitionists understood themselves within a worldwide network in opposition to bondage, slaveholders envisioned their...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...had already conducted on the mid and late twentieth century. SOLOMON: What personal pathways led you to this project? Casimiro González (left) and Manuel Rodríguez (right), a gay couple that...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...in the early 1930s. In fact, Louisiana started permitting and regulating oil exploration as early as 1939. The discussion in 1953 about how Tennessee Gas's proposed "Muskrat Line" natural gas...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: W. Morrow, 1986). To be sure, many clergy north of the Mason-Dixon line risked...