Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
"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...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...specializes in work that documents diverse, underrepresented voices and that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. The new director should have significant experience as a practitioner, teacher, and leader...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...journal The Camp Merton Chronicles in November 1995. Peel's project centered on the renovation of Atlanta's John Howell Park and a new statue to be installed in it. Titled Hope...
"Little Switzerland"
...entertaining in every way than all the others. The very best people of Atlanta visit it and the universal exclamation is, 'Oh, how beautiful! How gorgeously grand! I never knew...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week's featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta's east side. With its perilous, narrow...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Photograph by Maik. Courtesy of Maik, CC BY-ND. In her April 2015 Southern Spaces publication "Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility,"...
Vestibule
...of skin, but on the grace of the heart beneath. It was the only homily we knew, and our souls were beatified. And if you say sentiment and cliché, then...