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Issue 121, Summer 2023

A Body of Possibilities

Summer reading might bring to mind escape, frivolity. But our contributors paint the South as it is.

By Allie Mariano
Web Feature

Freedom House: A Sonic Bibliography

Before I knew what a poem was, I was a kid who carried around a CD player and clunky headphones, bobbing along to bops.

By KB Brookins
Eyes on the South

The Crux of June

Baldwin’s photos are sun-drenched and peaceful, and evoke an idealized version of a carefree youthful summer in “the crux of June.”

By Isabelle Baldwin
Issue 95, Winter 2016

Dig If You Will The Picture

His songs are this black woman’s anthem. His voice, my respite. His wildness: the power I needed to find my own.

By Crystal Wilkinson

Attend the No Tears Project Memphis

By Oxford American

  

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

—Alice Randall

Podcast

The Joyful Sound

David Ramsey revisits Blackey, Kentucky, where Old Regular Baptists are still singing in a four-hundred-year-old tradition.

If You Would Know Us

KaToya Ellis Fleming investigates the backlash and legacy of violence caused by the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in North Carolina and a performance by the American folk duo Birds of Chicago.

Half My World

Tess Taylor explores Anne Spencer's poetry and a live performance by Lucy Dacus. This episode marks the first time Anne Spencer's voice will be broadcast outside of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum.

Eyes on the South

Dear Atlanta: Manipulation of the Reflection

By Nicole Hernandez

Loud Quiet Loud

By Cory Jones

Atlanta Signage: Looking Up

By EWANG

You are Where you're Supposed to Be

By Billie Carter-Rankin

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