Black Socrates
…16: In your introduction, you describe a strong personal identification with Harrison, given your own involvement in radical causes, with all its rewards and frustrations. Did this connection shape your…
…16: In your introduction, you describe a strong personal identification with Harrison, given your own involvement in radical causes, with all its rewards and frustrations. Did this connection shape your…
…Tennessee’s 50th birthday this year. Revelatory poetry Folk music icon Joan Baez has been writing poems privately for decades. Now she’s sharing them in the collection When You See My…
…my world, my old school. At twelve years and ten months I’m already becoming nostalgic. But I can’t go back — time is a one-way ticket. Young Robyn adores Bob…
…its details? Ace Atkins: When you live in north Mississippi, Memphis is the unofficial capital and where you spend a ton of time. I’ve been writing about Memphis since my…
…his wife and children and drawn to the power of words on a page, “the honest labor of writing itself.” He’s also deeply scarred by the poverty of his youth…
…sometimes with fists, and once with a gun.” Magee’s powerful enemies included a U.S. senator who later served as secretary of the interior, Albert Fall. You may know that name…