The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...no misunderstanding about what this case means in regard to religion: states are now free to finance private schools that discriminate against students on the basis of students’ religions. As...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
Review Cory Doctorow, Roped-up Satchmo statue, Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010. Area closed off since contractors poured pavement with bad cement and damaged the statue. Just across Rampart...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...credits of the broadcast would often indicate the source, and in some cases, the name of the producer. In most instances it proved impossible to track down a broadcast-quality master....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...states, with Florida falling just outside the list. Among the states that will be hardest hit, all except New Mexico have or are currently considering ESA voucher plans. Replacing $41.5...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...to the significance of Raboteau's text in setting the methodological agenda for many subsequent studies. For more on the influence of Raboteau's study on studies of US African American religious...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...traumatic and horrific for him to recount, my grandfather’s stories and experiences in those camps are lost to time. Yet, the terrors he saw there would manifest perniciously. Years later,...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...their arms. "For six long hours, Georges walked without a rest; at last he stopped, a few steps from a hut built in the deepest heart of the forest; you'll...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Opossum Farm," Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, OH), Dec. 19, 1889, 4, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028296/1889-12-19/ed-1/seq-4/. John Rand's ranch in Louisiana, in 1892;55"State News," St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA), May 7, 1892, 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1892-05-07/ed-1/seq-1/. an...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...