Monzur Patwary of the Task Force for Global Health presents an array of tailored cultural responses to COVID-19 developed in his native Bangladesh. Underfunded centralized health services collaborate with NGOs in the creation of lively public service announcements in local dialects, video endorsements by faith leaders, and works of popular theater, art, and visual culture.

Illustrated with a six-stop video tour, maps, and images. Urbanized streams take us into the heart of a city's history. When a creek becomes a culvert, protections disappear. St. Petersburg's Salt Creek, a fragmented stream that feeds the Gulf coast of Florida, flows northwest from the Pinellas Peninsula into Tampa Bay. This culverted and fragmented waterway runs counter to a tourist destination's official story, providing a study in the recovery of urban environs. If we can reconnect a disjointed creek, can we also heal the rifts in our human communities?

<!-- wp:paragraph --> Scott L. Matthews reviews Berkley Hudson\'s<em> O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble &amp; Resilience in the American South </em>(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022). <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

In 1849 a mob of white supremacists eager to seize anti-slavery mailings attacked the US Post Office in Pendleton, South Carolina. They burned leaflets and letters in a bonfire on the village green to make clear their stance against incendiary ideas. This essay explores the context of these events by considering an initial spate of mailings that happened in 1835. This examination includes: their author, William Brisbane; the Calhounist culture of Pendleton that fueled this demonstration; the sad fate of the young man, John Barrett, who was arrested for the distribution of such materials; and those held captive in the middle of it all, the enslaved African Americans of Pendleton.

In this media-enhanced excerpt from <a href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674052819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound</em> </a>(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021), Daphne A. Brooks delves into Zora Neale Hurston\'s 1939 experiences as the only Black woman on the staff of the Federal Writers Project\'s <em>Florida Guide. </em>A keen listener, interviewer, and ethnographer, Hurston, as heard in these recordings, was also a sonic interpreter of vernacular voices and performance styles.

Combining materials from the Carolyn Weathers Collection in the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives and a 2015 interview with Weathers herself, Amanda Mixon sketches queer experience in early 1960s San Antonio, Texas. Mixon revisits gay bars, community formation, racial dynamics, policing practices, cultural representations, and military suasion to highlight the ongoing need for further exploration and study of historic gay spaces across Texas.

Profesora e investigadora con especialización en culturas y literaturas latinoamericanas, Bridgette W. Gunnels dialoga con dramaturgo Abel González Melo, autor de más de veinte obras de teatro. [Read the English translation of this interview here.]

On July 1, 2021, in the case of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Supreme Court issued eighty-five pages of opinions concerning a new interpretation of a 1982 amendment to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Steve Suitts, who was involved in the Congressional hearings and debate that led to the renewal of the Voting Rights Act in 1982, provides this primer on what the majority opinion holds, its contradictions and shortcomings, and its dangerous implications for voting rights.

Kofi Boone describes three towns founded by freed Black people who endeavored to create their own communities. Excerpted from "Enabling Connections to Empower Place: The Carolinas" in Black Landscapes Matter (University of Virginia Press, 2020). Courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.