Chris Hamby recounts miners’ fight for health benefits in Soul Full of Coal Dust
…the legal battles disease-stricken miners waged against their wealthy employers for modest monthly payments of $500 to $800. The weapons lawyers used when they worked for companies like Massey Coal…
Writers of color consider what it means to belong in the South
…and Modern Day Slavery in the ‘New’ South,” Cleveland describes her awakening to the profound inequality baked into “the racial and religious power dynamics” of NCAA basketball at Duke University….
The meaning of the Southern Festival of Books in a season of loss
…I had wanted to say: Yes, it was sad to be reminded that my friend was gone, but it was also a joy, because in a real way I got…
Lisa Donovan’s memoir is never short of passion
…— in the tradition of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential — Donovan’s testimony is beautifully written, fresh, and powerful, not to mention aptly named. She describes her hunger to move beyond…
Connor Towne O’Neill grapples with America’s legacy of white supremacy
…Yeah, right. I’m a good white liberal Yankee. But as I traced 150 years of history in four American cities, I had to grapple with the history of slavery —…
Greetings from New Nashville considers the city’s transformation and its future
…are getting exponentially richer — in some cases helping corrode democracy by allowing misinformation to proliferate through massive networks at the same time. Seems bad! I will say this: Cool…
