Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Alexander Murray's collection. Henry Proctor Slaughter's collection figured prominently in the development of Atlanta University's Africana Collection. Jesse Moorland's gift to Howard University sparked the development of the Moorland-Spingarn Research...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...media, as compared to working-class queer issues, economic struggle, and religious persecution. RuPaul came out of the Atlanta drag scene, and we now have eleven seasons and countless tie-ins and...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...surrounding countryside and Alabama's largest city (let alone larger cities like New Orleans, Miami, or Atlanta). Reed suggests that "Alabama" causes McLemore's loneliness far more than any of his idiosyncrasies...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, Civil and Human Rights Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, on view March 14, 2015; "Gregory and Wife Guilty in...
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...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...Out Until Tomorrow" by Brother Theotis Taylor. This was recorded live by George Mitchell in 1976 or 1977 at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival at the Atlanta Civic Center. And...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Steve Bransford lives in Atlanta with his wife Amy and two-year-old son Miles. He recently completed his PhD in American Studies from Emory University and is currently serving as visiting...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Author Michael Moon grew up in rural Oklahoma in the 1950s and '60s, and since then has lived for extended periods in New York City, Baltimore, Durham, NC, and Atlanta,...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...is vice president of the Atlanta-based Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Suitts' previous essay for...