Testifying and Telling: Frank X Walker’s Poetic Civil War History
In his new collection, the Affrilachian Poets founder gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers and their families, aiming to uncover hidden truths inside Southern history.
In his new collection, the Affrilachian Poets founder gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers and their families, aiming to uncover hidden truths inside Southern history.
After our editor’s mother passed, he relied on his Aunt Mary — the boss of the Reece family kitchen — to show him how to live.
Dee Thompson with a story on her mother’s Easter macaroni and cheese, which goes way beyond al dente.
Old Crow Medicine Show leader Ketch Secor shares his hopes about what the removal of the battle flag will mean for his children.
Fiction writer DC Diamondopolous with a short story about a Montgomery pastor who helps one his of flock back away from the edge of suicide.
Louisiana poet Neema Murimi shares a poem based on her years in New Orleans.
Neema Murimi ponders a 20-hour drive back home to a sodden, dirty South.
An education professor examines how inclusion in the classroom can move the South forward.
In which our Culture Warrior heaves anchor and explores a new album of sea shanties, among other oddities along the passage.
No metaphor represents Southern culture better than a bowl of gumbo.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, pays tribute to those wonderful folks who rescue us from breakdowns, mud holes and scary places in the middle of the night — the tow truck drivers.
For some, the food of the South has always been barbecue. For others pimento cheese, but in certain areas — and in a certain kind of weather — it is always gumbo.