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Mississippi Is Enough

May 15, 2013 By Robert Reece Leave a Comment

love of place, home, homesickness, The South, African Americans

Robert Reece quit looking for his roots in distant lands that have not affected him so deeply as the history, culture, and people of Mississippi.

Filed Under: Quitting, Rural Black America, The Good Life Tagged With: acts of resistance, Africa, African-Americans, American history, ancestry testing, ancestry testing criticism, biological race, black Americans, Black heritage, Black History, Black pride, Blues Music, Caribbean, civil rights, courage, Dorothy Robert, family ancestry, family history, Fatal Invention, home, homesickness, Joe Pullen, love of place, Mississippi, motherland, Personhood Act, plantations, race, race myth, reproductive rights, resistance, Rudy Shields, sharecroppers, slavery, the South

The Invisible World of Rural Black America: Part 2

February 25, 2013 By Lola Rainey 3 Comments

Join Lola Rainey on a guided tour through American history with her father and uncle, sons of a Texas sharecropper.

Filed Under: Featured Content, On Race, Rural Black America, The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: 1956, 1964, African American service men, American culture, American interstate system, American society, anti-discrimination, arizona, Black America, black families, black men in military, brothers, Central Texas, Civil Rights Act, convenience stores, corruption, country life, discrimination, Driving While Black, East Texas, family history, family trip, fathers, Federal Aid Highway Act, highway robbery, institutional racism, interstate highways, mom and pop stores, New Mexico, nieces, poverty, President Eisenhower, public accommodation, racial integration, Racism, Ralph Ellison, road diners, road trips, segregation, sharecroppers, shotgun shacks, small town life, social justice, Southern America, Texas, The Great Depression, the invisible man, the South, traveling during segregation, uncles, US Air Force, USAF

Full Blast: G. Bruce Boyer & Rev. Gary Davis

July 31, 2012 By John Tinseth Leave a Comment

The recorded music of the late Reverend Gary Davis, an itinerant, blind street musician of the Jazz era, “simply sears my heart,” says G. Bruce Boyer.

Filed Under: A&E Tagged With: Afro-American music, Baptist preacher, Big Bill Broonzy, blind, blues, Brownie McGee, Buddy Rich, Cocaine Blues, festivals, folk music, G. Bruce Boyer, Gibson guitar, gospel, guitarist, holy blues, itinerant musicians, music festivals, musician, preacher, recordings, religious street musicians, Rev. Gary Davis, singer, South Carolina, street musicians, The Reverend Gary Davis, the South, The Trad

Memories, Real or Imagined, Haunt Us the Same

November 28, 2011 By Julie Gillis 4 Comments

Sometimes all you need in order to move on is to distinguish the real from the intangible.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Male Heartbreak, Recent and Recommended, Sex & Relationships Tagged With: dreams, ghosts, heartbreak, Julie Gillis, lover, Sex and Relationships, sexual desires, suicide, the South, true love

Guestpost #32: Liz Jukovsky – Ten things I’ve learned from being an American ex-pat in Canada

April 1, 2011 By Josh Bowman 1 Comment

Short Bio: Liz Jukovsky is an improviser, comedian, writer, and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. She studied Anthropology at the University of Toronto and has lived in Toronto for five years. You can find her profile and upcoming improv shows at http://www.impatient.ca/people/liz-jukovsky/ or check out her twitter @Eljukjuk. Note: Liz is a very talented improviser, despite being American [...]

Filed Under: Ten Things I've Learned Tagged With: America, Canada, Health Care, patriotism, privilege, stripper, Sweet Caroline, the South