Curtis Wilkie reveals the story of a brave man who informed on the Mississippi KKK
…and illuminates the heroics of a martyred civil rights activist and a courageous FBI informant. While chronicling the carnage and folly of far-right extremism and racial injustice, it casts shadows…
Kim Ruehl explores the life of activist Zilphia Horton in A Singing Army
…spirit. Although “social justice” and “the South” are still often seen as oxymoronic, Ruehl illuminates a time and place when people were trying to make them synonyms. Zilphia’s accidental death…
A white priest’s experience of the civil rights movement in Alabama
“Strange the crevasses racial superiority sinks into — hiding until perhaps years later it is flushed out,” writes retired Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter in his memoir of the civil…
Book Excerpt: I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites
…historically, Nashville’s diverse musical culture rivaled that of any city in America. Indeed, although there has long been the presence of great musicians in Nashville, it is only since the…
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist John Archibald wrestles with his father’s legacy
…parable is enough. Sometimes the world requires a rhetorical baseball bat.” A prominent pastor and church official in Alabama, the late Rev. Robert L. Archibald Jr.’s career coincided with the…
Kristy Dallas Alley delivers a dystopian coming-of-age story in her debut novel
In The Ballad of Ami Miles, debut novelist Kristy Dallas Alley pens a coming-of-age story against a backdrop of a post-apocalyptic America where few women can still bear children. Ami’s…
