Dirty Little Story
...have government so broke at every level—federal, state, and county—it can't afford to keep its nice places clean. TVA doesn't enforce its no-littering policy. Probably doesn't have the manpower. The...
Local Color
...a powerful tool through which American women could develop a distinctive, even heroic vision of lives too often pejoratively labeled "ordinary" and "small time." Through local color fiction southern women...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...place forgotten since the mid-1960s by the GOP, except when persecuting voting rights activists. With McCain's dismal civil rights record throughout years in Congress, including his (later retracted) opposition to...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
"Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield, recorded in Plains, Georgia, 1976. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. [Acoustic...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. George Mitchell: Where were you born? Jim Bunkley: In Talbot County. Mitchell: In Talbot County. Right around here. When...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
Call for Submissions Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, activists, media producers, community organizers, and patients to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as...
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)....
Work
...Louisiana State University Press. What Travels With Us is the winner of the 2005 Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College, as well as the Southern Independent...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...advocacy. Beginning in 2022, the series expands to include 1000-word blog posts, as well as longer commentaries, essays, articles and media productions that address the public health and political implications...