Darkly
...if light swept from the channel or the opposite shore. The sky is empty, and the river's bent like a question too close or too far away to read. "Darkly"...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...Bastard” Part 3: Kevin Young reads “Ode to the Harlem Globetrotters” Part 4: Kevin Young reads “Ode to Chitlins” Part 5: Kevin Young reads “Bereavement” Part 6: Kevin Young reads “Charity” Part 7: Kevin Young...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Covid-19 Commercial is Exactly the Same," Microsoft Sam, April 15, 2020, YouTube video, 3:40, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3J9jDoaTA. As COVID-19 variants emerged and disease waves swelled, public health officials justified shifts in their...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...claims clothes were shed by a man and woman wed less than a month, who let hoe and plow handle slip from hands, left rows half done, crossed dark waves...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Opening Title Sequence Concept," (Proposal presented at the Original pitch proposal produced by Elastic.tv and Antibody for the title sequence from True Detective, March 9, 2014), http://www.scribd.com/doc/211405775/Original-Pitch-for-Title-Sequence-from-True-Detective. An oil refinery...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...of regional history. The Burgert Brothers archive is no exception.1The photos in this section can be found at the library website, although in many ways this archive made by a...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...Doing to Protect Miners from the Resurgence of Black Lung Disease?" YouTube video, 2:58:39, June 20, 2019, House Committee on Education and Labor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJUDcTf0a_g. Other physicians in the coalfields, such...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...ask for the death penalty? Because they knew that no white jury would send the defendants to their deaths. They argued the case with the very opposite of indifference, with...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Television Network, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCZOHQ7fCE. Top and bottom, Tour of the ruins of Ed Scott's catfish processing plant with Daniel Scott, Leflore County, Mississippi, 2013. Photographs by Julian Rankin. © Julian Rankin....