Deep Ellum Blues
...taken, and we approached Oak Lawn along the unaccustomed route of Hall Street, which looked devastated in this neighborhood — one or two stores hunched forlornly among vacant lots. Just...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...ordinance thrown out because of its ambiguous wording, Roswell adopted language that bans (noisy) roosters and bases the number of birds per residence on lot size. And who was the...
Remnants of Flannery
...Drago's story is based is startling in its simplicity—a solid background with a black-ink drawing in the foreground—and as such, Drago's story follows an age old plot: two friends go...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...adult libation in hopes of learning more about his set plot of secession. "Although the night hadn't produced the secession quorum I'd be angling for," he muses, "in an unexpected...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, a lot of water has passed under his bridge, and a lot of other stuff too. Still, there stood the senator on the Selma...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...Hannah C. Griggs, assistant managing editor: I've been reading a lot of Audre Lorde's essays from the posthumously published Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Though I'd recommend anything written...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Jim Bunkley: He could play. That’s right. Mitchell: What about your mother? Jim Bunkley: She played piano. Mitchell: So you had a whole music family. Lottie Kate Bunkley: Mm-hmm. I’ll...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...