Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...by his continual becoming. Still from Moonlight. © A24, 2016. "Little" is structured around Juan, the first character we meet in Moonlight, stepping out of his bright blue car. As...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...Choice Bills,” Reason, Jan. 22, 2023, https://reason.com/2023/01/22/virginia-is-considering-4-different-school-choice-bills/; Megan Pauly, “Wealthiest Virginians are benefiting most from contributions to school voucher program,” VPM News, July 11, 2022, https://www.vpm.org/news/2022-07-11/wealthiest-virginians-are-benefiting-most*]}*-from-contributions-to-school-voucher/. In Mississippi, once the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Georgia Archives. Colson's crusade against DDT began in 1945, the same year the pesticide emerged from the Second World War as an American miracle. First synthesized by an Austrian chemist...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...with a bloodied nose and blood-stained shirt. He stares straight at Pruitt, wounded but impassive or perhaps stunned to see a camera pointing at him. The white boy over his...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...to the press, including, most importantly, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On January 7, Whitfield and 350 core followers gathered at the Sikeston First Baptist Church to hold...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...extremist National States' Rights Party and the Knights of the White Camellia.11New York Times, October 18, 1958. Role of the National States' Rights Party Founded in August 1958, the National...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...3, 2012, http://3littledigs.com/blog/2012/09/03/studio-life-dee-1/. Dee-1 remembers, Hurricane Isaac, that stuff, that stuff really . . . that stuff was unexpected. My parents lost their house, they lost both of their cars....
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Celestine Sibley was one of the most read writers in the southeastern United States during the last half of the twentieth century. Her columns—some ten-thousand during her career—appeared almost daily...
Race
...the story ends: ivory siblings who would not see their brother without their telltale spouses. What a strange thing is "race," and family, stranger still. Here a poem tells a...