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Issue 128, Spring 2025

The Machine in the Garden

After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.

By Jordan Blumetti
Web Feature

The Rush to Archive America’s Diversity Programs

“We knew it was going to happen.”

By Caroline McCoy
Web Feature

Willie Nelson’s Potluck for a Cause

East meets West at the musician’s tenth annual culinary festival

By Oxford American
Issue 128, Spring 2025

In the Streets with the Krewe of Mung Beans

What could be a better delicacy with which to celebrate the new year than rice and mung beans, those reliable and sustaining things?

By E. M. Tran
Issue 115, Winter 2021

The Watts Miracle

As ravenous as anyone else, the thing I had most wanted to see in Amazing Grace was Franklin calling Lazarus.

By Zandria F. Robinson

Dirt Track Sundays

By Paul O'Mara

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

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Web Feature

A Quiet Ruckus: Community Reflections on Now Closed Louisville Publication

Ruckus remains a dynamic time capsule

By Ian Carstens
Web Feature

The Corpsewood Manor Murders

“Once you reach that road—you’ll feel it.”

By Luke Gregson
Web Feature

Loss at the Buffalo National River

“The jobs weren’t reviewed before they were terminated”

By Caroline McCoy
Web Feature

Willie Nelson’s Potluck for a Cause

East meets West at the musician’s tenth annual culinary festival

By Oxford American

Eyes on the South

Dirt Track Sundays

By Paul O'Mara

Time Is of the Essence

By Katie Kehoe

A Way to Get Gone

By Darryl DeAngelo Terrell

A Way Home

By Jay Simple

I-10 Runs Through It

By Johanna Warwick

“God bless America and God bless the Oxford American…”

—Dolly Parton

Podcast

Points South

Daisy Bates in Mitchellville

Join producer Christian Leus for part two of our story about Mitchellville, Arkansas, as she explores the history and legacy of the Mitchellville Self-Help Project, led by Daisy Bates.
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Foundations of a Black Town

Producer Christian Leus travels to Mitchellville, Arkansas, a small Black town close to the Mississippi state line. Mitchellville’s story is little...
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Points South Live: Otis Redding Foundation and Macon Music Revue

Our 25th annual Southern Music Issue is on newsstands now! Join us for a special celebration of one of the South’s greatest balladeers: Otis Redding....

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Ballads Music T-Shirt Bundle

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Kentucky Derby Bundle

Includes the Kentucky Music Issue #99, Faith and Doubt in Kentucky #33, & New South Journalism Issue #78