The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Farmers and ranchers across the South, Midwest, and West are struggling to bring their crops to harvest and feed their herds. Texas...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
This morning when I went to play the scales the strings of the guitar were so cold they might have slept all night in the Holston's South Fork. And the...
Junction City newspaper
...south has been cruel to the negroes; that they have bulldozed them from the polls with shot-guns and other means. Denial or explanation does no good. The south now sends...
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...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...This further reconfigures the popular perception that slavery was a phenomenon only of the US South. When a marker is installed in the Sapelo Bay area in Georgia, it will...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
Interview Photographer unknown, Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a U.S. base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater, February 1944. Courtesy of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Part...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...2000, President Bill Clinton and Coretta Scott King led a thirty-fifth anniversary crowd of twenty thousand. Urging celebrants to "look at the South on the other side of the bridge,"...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
Introduction: Theorists in Dialogue about Native American Literature, Hybridity, and Tribal Sovereignty Craig Womack: Each of the participants who joined me in the Emory discussion on April 22, 2011—Lisa Brooks,...
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....