Mississippi: State of Confession
...their lives in the southern civil rights movement. Such heroic feats, however, can exaggerate the difference between the religious ethos of northern and southern white Protestants, establishing the popular impression...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...rights movement, careers in social work and business, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Magee lived most of her adult...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...O'Reilly as Dewey Dell Bundren, 2013. Photograph by Alissa Whelan. © RabbitBandini Productions. Because the film focuses more on the journey to bury Addie's rotting corpse than the inner lives...
Besieged Terrain
...plants, and unique ecosystems. Native Kentuckian Reece knows natural history and is committed to specific places he lives in and loves. Krupa has the writing skills and broad knowledge to...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...to "Harlem, USA"; the poem is explicit about this—has at stake a concomitant refusal to let Paul continue to live as a white man in Oregon. One can only imagine...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...government to ensure that these new entitlements were annulled in the South, where close to ninety percent of African Americans lived during the last half of the nineteenth century. In...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
..."I feel like there is more of a chance of an honest discussion here than any place else I have lived." About the Author Ellen Griffith Spears was a visiting...
Work
...home, with voices carried in your head of who you leave behind. Here you live out your path with collective memory. Veneer line — I worked for three months between...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...landscape, I wondered—what's behind that safety door that people trust with their lives? Would I find Jesus, nailed on a wall, under the Earth, ready to protect and be prayed...