Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
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...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...opaque than popularly portrayed today but also was not "merely about white supremacy for its own sake," Reed writes. "It was the instrument of a specific order of political and...
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....
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...tossed them into the air to see where they’d land. Here was the last vestige of the Key West that Jimmy Buffet immortalized. Here were today’s pirates and renegades, misfits...
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...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...professing Christianity, the discriminating conditions under which the Negro is living today in Atlanta, Georgia—supposedly one of the most progressive cities in the South." Julian Bond: It caused a shock...
"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa
People frequently experience Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as the home of the University of Alabama and its sports teams, or a series of well-marked exits that they pass as they barrel down...