Congregation
...watching. I could barely hear the organ, the hymn they sang, but when the congregation rose, filing out of the pews, I knew it was the call to altar. And...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...mayor, and his impact on the city’s topography, race relations, and the development of its artistic community. For more information about the role that art organizations like NEXUS have played...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...procedural rules that give Democrats a strong voice in legislative debates." The North Carolina NAACP has organized a series of protests every Monday since April 29, 2013 in opposition to cuts in...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...in Appalachia marked the anniverary by highlighting legislative efforts with the potential to undermine the law and questioning its fair application. The organization Appalachian Voices published a report today titled...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...session of Camp Fasola Europe, held near Gdansk in northern Poland; and the first Poland Sacred Harp Convention, held in Warsaw. Like the Ireland Convention, these events exceeded organizers' expectations...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...of This Romance on Postwar American Culture and Politics. Her current research investigates the intersection of documentary filmmaking and union organizing in the US South in the 1960s and 1970s....
Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...organization's Board of Directors from 1986 to 1996, and edited Uncoverings, the group's annual volume of research papers from 1987 to 1983. She also edited Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...