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...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
..."there are several million ways to murder."1James Baldwin, "We Can Change the Country," in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Penguin Random House, 2010), 61....
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...y espectadores asumían como suyos los temas del desarraigo y la frustración política. Algo similar sentí con el estreno de Por gusto en Repertorio Español de New York, y eso...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
Endstate ATL's solidarity gathering table offerings including COVID tests and readings on mutual aid. Atlanta, Georgia, January 2023. Photograph by and courtesy of Julian Rose. In May of 2023, when...
The Chesapeake Bay
...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review. Interview with Natasha...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...(2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review....