Off-Season
...the city sprawled out like scattered masonry and split rails, Raleigh, smoked factory winds and speak easy halls. A white chicken fell off a Tyson rig, just a bit ahead...
Consolation
...the back bench seat of some Rambler or Packard or 56 Chevy we've found just to take them back, maybe Boyett, too, maybe Boyett in front, beside the wheel, cruising...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...flat. I says, "Roland? There was just one way left, for me to be ahead of you and stay ahead of you, by Dad, and I just taken it. Now...
Anniversary
...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...that of a "fledgling ethnographer," and his cutesy, near-humorous conclusions remind me of a plethora of reality television shows. I just wish for much more reality and a lot less...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Richard Greatrex became a successful cinematographer, nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Shakespeare in Love. Helen Lewis authored important scholarship on labor and social justice in Appalachian...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the track, and placed his chin just over the first rail. When the train rolled over that stretch, just a mile and a half north of the Jerome, Arkansas, concentration...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...and riddled them with bullets. It was the first triple lynching in the state since 1888, and the second lynching in Rowan County in just four years. In 1902, the...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...Walker deconstructs. Her brilliance sees the ways the old white supremacist romanticism haunts and distorts the new history, too. Just because something is dead as serious history, does not mean...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...became not just a means of getting from one side of the river to the other, but a site where a people crossed out of repressive racial territory and into...