Wallace Harkins was assured of being a contented man, by and large. When troubles came, even small ones looked bigger than they would to anyone with large ones. Yet he often puzzled over...

I juxtapose American Indian and Southeastern cultures because, despite their elaborate costumes of distinctiveness, I can’t really see the difference between them. Both are communities...

When I would sit and talk with Vollis Simpson at his repair shop, near Lucama, Wilson County, North Carolina, he would often voice his irritation about folks who littered and wasted. He...

In our multi-cultural college town, Mardi Gras is more about saying goodbye to winter austerity than hello to forty days of Lent. We are way overdue for a feast!

Afterwards he feels light. He feels like celebrating. If he knew where to find a bar in Greensboro he could go out for a drink. Just one, and feel even lighter.

The shotgun house form, in single and double units, is the ubiquitous New Orleans house form and is also common throughout the Gulf South and Caribbean with roots in Africa and the ancient...

Those chains connect us all: West Africa, Haiti and Havana, North America, England and Europe – we are all connected, and have been for centuries.

Growing up in South Africa was a dislocating, almost schizophrenic experience. Living in a society that reserved jobs, land, and education for a minority of people, I was deeply struck by...

Some Single Girls Are said to possess psychological problems this is not a third world phenomenon

The house became a person we knew. A third member of our marriage. Every repair revealed a layer of the house's history. A flaw, a stroke of genius, a work of slipshod make-do.

Cam had heard the story countless times of the tumultuous voyage on the South China Sea. Despite the tragedies that befell them, Daddy believed that, thanks to the goddess of mercy, they...