"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
Introduction Map marking Walton County, Georgia For the past half decade I have been fascinated and puzzled by an extraordinary annual event, a reenactment each late July of the horrific...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Yeller (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956). Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows (New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1961). William Armstrong, Sounder (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1969). It wasn't...
Encountering COVID
...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...she is writing her dissertation on post-Katrina hip-hop and recovery in New Orleans. She has worked as a promoter, artist manager, and musician within the New Orleans hip-hop community since...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...in Southern Courts," New York, New York, 1931. Pamphlet by Joseph North. Published by International Labor Defense. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Image...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...the end of 2014. Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs. Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...create new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version....