There is something mesmerizing, yet indescribable about New Orleans. For as many times as I have been, I still don’t understand it. Yet, it’s one of the American cities I enjoy most. Whether it’s folks calling me “baby” or the ever-present Bounce remix thumping from sound systems worth more than the vehicles they’re in, ain’t nothing like… Continue reading Uncle Shadow and the Crescent City
Author: Charles H.F. Davis III, Ph.D
Charles H.F. Davis III is a traveling artist and academic whose work engages the social and cultural expressions of the Global South. He is particularly committed to conducting research on and using new media to document contemporary activism and social movements as forms of resistance to race-related systems of oppression.
Black in Alabama
Mine is the story of a boy who spent his childhood summers becoming black in Alabama, wrestling dirt in the whispering winds of Wetumpka out back of a one-room shack in which his great grandmother raised 15 children. It is the story of a boy who spent time with an old man, fishing the broken… Continue reading Black in Alabama