"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...works include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014) and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
Presentation Part 1: Tom Rankin introduces the life and work of Paul Kwilecki and his relationship to Decatur County, Georgia. Part 2: Rankin discusses the evolution of Kwilecki's photographic style...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...walking in terrible darkness here, and this is one man's attempt to bear witness to the reality and power of the light (xv). James Baldwin New York, April, 1964 ...
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Submission Process
...Does the piece traffic in new and progressive ideas about US Souths or southern distinctiveness and nostalgia? Permissions: Would using the content or suggested media require extensive, expensive, or impossible permissions?...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Simone has also published two collections, On Common Ground: Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South...