Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic human trade and provide a means for addressing a painful and shameful American experience whose vestiges persist today. These ceremonies feature rituals incorporating representatives of African, Native American, Asian,...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...troubling as that holding is, the opinion also constitutes a major, often ignored long-term impact on school desegregation. Today most students attending private schools are in religious schools, and most...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...Vietnamese products versus the less familiar Bách Thảo. Little Sài Gòn Market remains in operation today, owned by Đỗ Phương Anh Thư and Đỗ Phương Anh Minh, the youngest daughter...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...one. It took about five years of research and production to make the film. Sadly, due to cut-backs in public funding, I doubt that this documentary could be made today....