The Bulletin—November 1, 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...
The Bulletin—August 21, 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...
Public Health in the US and Global South
..."the scourge of the South," panicked urban populations, discouraged immigration, and disrupted commerce. The yellow fever epidemic of 1878–1879 that swept across the Gulf States and up the Mississippi claimed 16,000 lives. Malaria,...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...surrounding communities of Germantown, Tibwin, Pinelands, Buck Hall, and South Santee have a predominantly African American population of about three thousand. Most of the the families have lived in the...
Dirty Little Story
...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the courts and jails, some for long periods of their lives. In the 1930s, as mass pressure was forcing an end to public lynching, the treatment of the nine defendants...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...key natural resources. These measures should bring about a radical decentralization of power in order to give local people and communities greater control over their lives and prospects. All these...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...the University of Georgia Press in 2008. Hill is an editor at Broadsided Press. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. More information, as well as poems, can be found at his...