Salvation South

Musicians as exciting as Willi Carlisle come along once in a blue moon.

“Salvation.” It’s right there in our name. It’s an elusive state attained via unexpected detours and poorly drawn maps. Willi Carlisle’s second album, “Peculiar, Missouri,” lays bare the peculiar path that this Arkansas man traveled to a place where he can see salvation waiting for him.

An Episcopal priest’s poem ponders what we mean when we ask the question, “And who is my neighbor?”

Atlanta’s Abra Lee is on a quest to recognize Black America’s greatest horticulturists.

A short story about a North Carolina country woman who takes a bus into a better, brighter life — but one that lasts only for a day.

A special message to everyone who’s visiting us for the first time from Georgia Public Broadcasting.

Poet Joshua Lavender, a South Georgia native, brings us verses that resurrect how folks talk in the country.

Last week, Charles McNair brought us the story of the 50-year reunion of the Dothan High School class of 1972, the first fully integrated class in that Alabama town. This week, his friend James “Shack” Thompson brings us a remembrance of the Black high school that closed when desegregation happened.

Dr. Deidra Suwannee Dees ponders the question: How does the money from the offering plate get all the way to God?

Rob Rushin-Knopf examines two books that explore how White-owned news outlets in the 20th century perpetuated Jim Crow — and how Black journalists like Ida Mae Wells and W.E.B. DuBois battled back.

A poem that recounts the remarkable story of the author’s great-grandmother, Alma Davenport, who was born in Pheba, Mississippi, in 1898.

In 1969, the year Charles McNair entered the 10th grade, the Dothan, Alabama, public schools finally integrated. This year, the Dothan High Class of 1972 held its 50-year reunion, where joyous, authentic and honest conversations happened across the lines of race.