Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...judge is to interpret and apply the laws as they are written. . . . That's what we mean when we say that we have the rule of law and...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to learn differing local white rules of Jim Crow if and when they moved to new places across the southern states—and even in the same city where rules applied differently...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...development, that were the rarity rather than the rule. As historian Peter Burke predicts, much will be said about ignorance when we look back on the pandemic.6Ana R. Rego and Marialva...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...but the small-town, rural South was the site and subject of their most recognized work. The vivid immediacy of their photographs—and their ubiquity in magazines, books, and exhibits—has made it...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...and she's suddenly back underwater and hears the rush of water against her ears. She tries to hold her breath but her knee smashes against a boulder and she gasps...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...