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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...question of how—not if—the current US Supreme Court will reduce federal protections for Black and other minority voters. A case argued in October 2022 concerning Congressional reapportionment in Alabama reveals...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

..."Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US," JAMA Network Open 5, no. 1 (2022), https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2788286. A survey published in January 2022, found that COVID-19...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...Choice Bills,” Reason, Jan. 22, 2023, https://reason.com/2023/01/22/virginia-is-considering-4-different-school-choice-bills/; Megan Pauly, “Wealthiest Virginians are benefiting most from contributions to school voucher program,” VPM News, July 11, 2022, https://www.vpm.org/news/2022-07-11/wealthiest-virginians-are-benefiting-most-from-contributions-to-school-voucher/. In Mississippi, once the...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...Extended For 2022," Stanford Giving, March 14, 2022, https://giving.stanford.edu/stories/cares-act-not-extended-for-2022/. Because ESA puts money "directly" in the hands of marginalized people, such direct contributions to individuals are not tax-exempt. The COVID...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...McEwan's novel, Lessons (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), is scheduled for September 2022. CDC Main Campus, Atlanta, GA. Image in public domain. From my perspective as a recently retired...