A Little Early Spring
It has been a miserable winter for the eastern half of the United States (obviously). But over the last week or so spring has begun to peer through the trees, giving […]
Tag Archives: Mississippi
Musings on the Step-Motherland
I think some people have a bad habit of arguing that American born blacks, the descendants of slaves, have no home, that we’re displaced because we can’t trace our origins […]
Blues Murals
As a prelude to traveling the entire Mississippi Blues Trail this summer, I decided to show some images of some murals that I took while visiting home.
The Joy of the Vest
Grandma’s Stolen Opportunities
I remember going home to Leland sometime near or immediately after my undergraduate graduation. My grandmother, who has been a domestic worker for my entire life, drove me to meet […]
Day on Deer Creek
On my last day in Mississippi before heading back to North Carolina, I decided to go hang out on Deer Creek with the ducks, the last remaining wildlife from what […]
My Family History Through MS Delta Plantations
Plantations have played an integral part in Southern history and the development of Southern culture, but these particular plantations are special because my family sharecropped here, and still lives in […]
