Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...The two transformed this raw space into the Ashé Cultural Arts Center to promote, celebrate, and produce works by and about the African and African American experience. Ashé Cultural Arts...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...trains, any shared coach was to be "divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs," while restaurants were subject to still more stringent regulations.19The Code...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
Thursday, September 26, 2024 In Marshall talking with Joel and Josh. Very real concerns about the river, which is at ten feet, fierce, and rapidly rising. The island is already...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...of Delegates announced an effort to promote a "Repeal Amendment" to the US Constitution to provide states with the collective power to nullify any act of Congress with which two-thirds...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...not Crouch himself but his student Marvin Winans. Standing before a grief-stricken audience of family, friends, music legends, and curious onlookers, Winans belted out Crouch's latest hit, "Let the Church...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...teach the latest methods of garden production, with the approval and consent of residents. SECTION 9. If the members of a commons community no longer wish to be associated with...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...of these people who were interviewed in the film would want copies of it. I didn't think they would use it on their website as a way to promote their...