"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...(35). John Egerton, "Possum on Terrace" with handwritten notes, 1987. Popham became a leader of a group of who called themselves the War Correspondents, white men who made their careers...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the story," the African American artist Kara Walker has said about her art. "You keep creating a monster that swallows you." In a mid-career retrospective currently on tour, Walker's subject...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...and Democratic National Conventions held in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina respectively. The Huffington Post reported that many of the workers responsible for cleaning up after convention-goers at...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...prison than out. "The most dangerous woman in America," one prosecutor called her; "She is a wonder," her friend Carl Sandberg wrote; "The walking wrath of God," Upton Sinclair declared....
Dirty Little Story
...A Plan B is a wonderful thing at such a moment. We all pile back into the car. The weather is like October. The lake water is warm. The sky...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
A Sleight of History: Film and Essay Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium. A short film by Sarah Melton and Marshall Houston, 2009. My fellow filmmaker Marshall Houston...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...March on Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 13, 2016. Photograph by Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...the punitive carceral system, and the many ongoing injustices that Black people experience in the US and across the globe. We understand, as James Baldwin writes, that under white supremacy...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...a family member who died of AIDS in 1989 and hinted that I might face a similar fate. We carry queer trauma in our bodies. All of us—straight, gay, cis,...