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Issue 122, Fall 2023

Toward a Radical Cinematic Horizon

Bambara’s and Naylor’s unfinished film projects remind us that Black independent cinema can do much more than lobby for inclusion.

By Randi Gill-Sadler
Issue 91, Winter 2015

Battle Cry of the Android

We can imagine a fantastical world where time travel is possible, yet we cannot conceive of any point in the past, or even the future, where black...

By Brit Bennett
Issue 118, Fall 2022

Eastman, GA. 2022

We grew up knowing she was from Georgia, and the state therefore held a special place in our hearts.

By Farah Jasmine Griffin
Issue 91, Winter 2015

Nudie and the Cosmic American

Gram Parsons may have been going for an authentic country look, but his suit was equally tongue-in-cheek, like some of his songs.

By Elyssa East

Ballad Recs

Check in weekly for new Ballad recommendations from OA editors and staff!

By Oxford American
Issue 91, Winter 2015

Frontwards Is Backwards

You lose your stinking mind and have to go crazy to remain sane! Things are so backwards here. Frontwards is backwards. You know?

By Lance Ledbetter

“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

A Way Home

By Jay Simple

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

—Dolly Parton

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The fall issue focuses on film of the South in all its bold, complex, and vivid iterations.

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