Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...was easier to find work, especially physical labor jobs, that required little to no English. My father’s family was convinced that moving to Nashville was their best plan of action,...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...film crew that afternoon. We elected to call his bluff, which proved to be all it was, but by that time Cabrini was not a place to take threats lightly....
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...but that's not how she would do it.” And I was like, “Okay, I get that that's not how you would do it. But the way that you would do...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...image haunts, that of broken sidewalk tile, an apt metaphor for what Waisman has catalogued: the bombardment of a community that will end in permanent exile. About the Author Lee...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...added). What follows is excerpted from Padgett's "Preface" and a glimpse into Bill Smith's participation in the first Atlanta Pride march on June 27, 1971. This is one of the...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...landscape, I wondered—what's behind that safety door that people trust with their lives? Would I find Jesus, nailed on a wall, under the Earth, ready to protect and be prayed...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...I was, but that was my life for several months. Morris Dillard: It wasn't a one-time shot and that's what Lonnie was telling us early on is that you've got...
"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...