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Where We Go From Here

Looking back through decades of struggle, uncertainty, and hope

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Erik Peters brings us a small piece of fiction about a small gesture — and how such gestures can mean so much.

In West Virginia, the state with the nation’s highest rate of death by overdose, faith communities answer urgent callings from any and all.

From Washington, D.C., three poems honoring ancestry and excavating history.

Three verses that take us from the gorges of western North Carolina to that mess on the front porch.

The Ring Shout — an ecstatic and transcendent spiritual dance rooted in West Africa — rose historically through the South as a tool of Black resistance. Today, its cultural significance and power serve the purpose of collective healing and the expression of Black joy.

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A North Florida cattleman looks back and wonders, what happens when you can no longer afford to love the thing you love the most?

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