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Dowdy asks what it means to father under conditions of patriarchy. He refuses easy answers, turning a critical eye toward both the father acts that shaped him and his attempts to break out of the patriarchal mold and parent his daughter otherwise.
These poems invite us to consider what remains—after violence, after loss. To believe in the lens of poetry is to believe that what lingers beneath individual disappointment and longing is something collective, universal, and even magnificent.
In Gretna, Louisiana, the arrest capital of America, four officers are suing their former police department for using a quota for arrests and tickets.
Black domestic workers have led the charge to put Stacey Abrams in the governor’s mansion.
This year, ballots are a battleground over voter suppression, Jim Crow, and efforts to consolidate GOP control. Here’s a state-by-state rundown of what voters in the South need to know.
