The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...“People believe wholeheartedly that God doesn’t want us to mix.”1Steve Suitts, Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2020), 71. Whatever their purported...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...The Most Dangerous Woman in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), and most recently, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)....
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...Language Association (MLA) announced that its journals (PMLA, Profession, and the bulletins of the Association for Departments of English and Association for Departments of Foreign Languages) have adopted new "open-access-friendly"...
The Change
...to transplant those seedlings to each hill in the field, the space for that particular plant and we watched as they would grow. Before all of this new age, new...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...structures around them had not changed; because reform laws would get repealed by a shift in the larger forces of power; because they themselves would forget what they knew, under...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...before, a marine, and he knew how to fight. Like the spark of life the female blue crab carries in her orange sponge, an idea began in him. The voice...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
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...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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