On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some recommended reading: the special Katrina issue of Southern Cultures, cover to cover. Amazing stories, including a riveting first-person account, from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, of taking the high ground in an elegant, "safe" old inn, being engulfed in water up to the second floor, floating out into open sea, holding on for dear life to the limbs of a live oak tree, and more.
An update to their story: the live oak tree has since died, and it's been refashioned into angels standing watch where the old inn used to be.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
WCOM documentary
Via Orange Politics, a wonderful little documentary produced by some students at Elon University on Carrboro's community radio station, WCOM. (Low power to be sure, but if you're reading about it here, you can stream it from anywhere!)
I'm proud that Tucker was one of the founding DJs of "Teen Spirit" (Sunday afternoons, 1-3) and has gone on to create and co-host a new show, "Pirate Radio" (Saturday afternoons, 1-3). I enjoyed being interviewed about homelessness on Audrey Leyden's show. And I really love the Sunday jazz programming: great music from 3 p.m. to midnight.
Long live community radio!
I'm proud that Tucker was one of the founding DJs of "Teen Spirit" (Sunday afternoons, 1-3) and has gone on to create and co-host a new show, "Pirate Radio" (Saturday afternoons, 1-3). I enjoyed being interviewed about homelessness on Audrey Leyden's show. And I really love the Sunday jazz programming: great music from 3 p.m. to midnight.
Long live community radio!
Friday, August 22, 2008
"Traces of the Trade" in Hillsborough Sept. 6
A couple of months ago, Al blogged about "Traces of the Trade," a documentary made by a descendant of the DeWolf family of Rhode Island, "the largest slave trading family in U.S. history" according to the film. The documentary follows the steps of the filmmaker Katrina Browne and a handful of other descendants as they retrace the paths over which this trading took place: from Bristol, Rhode Island to Ghana to the Caribbean.
The film premiered at Sundance and has been shown on PBS (see trailer). And because the family included a good number of Episcopal priests, it has been taken up by the Episcopal Church nationally as part of the church's ongoing work of reconciliation with its complicity with slavery and racism.
On Sept. 6, as part of a conversation sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina at St. Matthew's church in Hillsborough, the film will be shown. After the film, I'll be part of a panel discussion--in which I'll be bringing our own Thomas Ruffin to the table.
The film premiered at Sundance and has been shown on PBS (see trailer). And because the family included a good number of Episcopal priests, it has been taken up by the Episcopal Church nationally as part of the church's ongoing work of reconciliation with its complicity with slavery and racism.
On Sept. 6, as part of a conversation sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina at St. Matthew's church in Hillsborough, the film will be shown. After the film, I'll be part of a panel discussion--in which I'll be bringing our own Thomas Ruffin to the table.
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