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By Harrison Scott Key

A REVOLUTION

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  I listened to “Just Like You” by Keb’ Mo’ over and over again the same way I did when I was working at a coffee shop when I was in college....

By Leesa Cross-Smith

ONE HURRICANE SEASON

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. My first full hurricane season in the Bahamas in over twenty years found me struggling to ensure we were storm ready while adjusting to our...

By Tamika Galanis

THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION AND THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  San Antonio is the patron saint of lost causes, and Rolando created a statue of him in faux-marble white with the Alamo perched like a hat,...

By Bárbara Renaud González

OXFORD AMERICAN’S 2018 NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC ISSUE CELEBRATION

The  Oxford American magazine’s celebration of its twentieth annual Southern Music issue, this year featuring  North Carolina, will be held  Monday,  November 26 – Saturday,...

By Oxford American

THE SOUTH END

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  I’ve long struggled with my feelings toward the South End, having never loved the place the way I thought I should. Both my parents...

By Frederick McKindra

LASTING PEACE

A Conversation with Dr. Terrence Roberts and Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe My commitment to non-violence is not shaped by the actions or attitudes of others. It is my firm conviction that membership in the...

By Sara A. Lewis

CONSEQUENCES FOR A THIEF

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  “Be careful you’re not romanticizing it,” my husband said a few days later as we talked through the experience. I knew what he meant, but it...

By Meghan Tear Plummer

THIS SMALL CORNER

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  I felt many days like I was no one and like nothing mattered and that I couldn’t write myself out of it. I wanted to be someone or something...

By William Boyle

THE WARS LOST AND WON IN TEXAS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Because of her story, I’ve seen the way that wars secure land at the cost of great violence, hate, and marginalization. Sometimes the...

By Bárbara Renaud González

MEN

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. In the early episodes of  MEN, co-host Celeste Headlee and I dive into history and science to explore questions like, How and when did men...

By John Biewen

MISFITS ON THE SOUTH’S FRONTIERS

A dialogue between Sarah Viren and Clinton Crockett Peters I’ve always been drawn to the misfits because they’re not beautiful, because they’re stinky, because people kind of hate them and dislike...

By Sarah Viren and Clinton Crockett Peters