“I listen for the night:” Two Poems by Destiny Hemphill
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New poetry from Destiny Hemphill, the featured poet in our Summer 2019 print magazine.
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Memory, Myth, and Legend: Missing Brushstrokes
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They’ve been called the last great American art movement of the 20th century. But the story of the Highwaymen—South Florida’s self-taught, Black painters—isn’t complete without one singular voice: that of Highwayman widow Doretha Hair Truesdell, an artist in her own right.
Florida
In the living room with Aretha and James and C.L.: Review of Amazing Grace
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Antonia Randolph reviews Amazing Grace, a recent documentary on Aretha Franklin, examining the quiet omniscient gendered boundaries that attempted to contain Aretha’s earth-shattering talent.
Art & Music
20,000 AT&T workers in the South went on strike—and won
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Union organizing isn’t impossible in right-to-work states. In fact, Southern labor movements are on the rise.
Capitalism
A Black kingdom in postbellum Appalachia
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The Kingdom of the Happy Land represents just one of many Black placemaking efforts in Appalachia. We must not forget it.