Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...p.m. - Arrive at the farm house of Barney Hester, 2932 Hester Town Road. (This is where the altercation occurred leading to the arrest of Roger Malcom, Sunday, July 14, 1946.) 5...
Substantiation
...courthouse windows where the sheriff shuffles cards for a blind man and the defense team. At a levee camp that night he asks for whiskey and she gives him a...
Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...– In this view you can see abrupt transitions between a salt marsh, maritime forest, and artificial freshwater pond, which is in the foreground. 1:11 – A time-lapse of a...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...in poetry Part 6: Morgan discusses the tension between the particular and the universal Poems Terroir That quality that seems unique, as thriving from a special spot of soil, air flow...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. The first, Friendship Baptist Church, was founded before the end of the Civil War and has stood at its current location since 1880. Spelman and Morehouse Colleges were...
Leavenworth newspaper
Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Savannah, or New York, or Providence, or the Ohio River, or better still, on the banks of the Mississippi. —Toni Morrison1Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road," World Journal of...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the public schoolchildren in twenty-one states were eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, a benefit available only to families living in poverty or near-poverty. The report further documents that...