Finding Media
Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...reachable on the newly-laid Richmond-Danville Railroad. In 1889, Mary Louisa Snoddy married Dr. H. R. Black in the parlor of Mary's parent's home and set up housekeeping in nearby Wellford....
I-26, Corridor of Change
...do we choose the narratives that affect our future? What price do we pay for allowing our memories, our environment, our places to be dismantled one step, one mile, nine...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Campos Torres," "South Carolina (Barnwell)," and "On Coming from A Broken Home." Scott-Heron's South was neither monolithic nor static, but a geography constantly responding to new political forces and new...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Dolores Lewis, "Philly Date Line," Philadelphia Tribune, December 7, 1957; "Queen Lane Apartment Group [photo]," Philadelphia Tribune, December 7, 1957; Jimmy Rivers, "Crickets' Corner," Philadelphia Tribune, January 21 and April...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...South is neither monolithic nor static but a geography constantly responding to new political forces and new social realities. North Carolina Beginnings John Prince Kee was born on June 4,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zone.” Clothesline, Winter's Bone, 2010. Director Debra Granik (b. 1963) grew up in suburban Washington, DC, and is a graduate of the NYU film program. Winter’s Bone is her...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...chicken laws for the new municipality — it had occurred to no one to write them into the original code. As of this writing, they need only one more City...
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