Ashley Farmer's 'Queen Mother' honors Queen Mother Audley Moore, finally
Given Moore's position as both a cultural and political figure of high regard, who is widely known amongst students of the Black Radical Tradition and in Black Nationalist and reparations-centered organizing spaces, she has been minimally studied with the degree of rigor she deserves.

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Southern politics
Fighting Zombie Laws: Inside Fund Texas Choice v. Deski
Soon after Paxton's advisory, many Texas abortion funds went dark. One by one, the organizations that made up the Texas abortion access network stopped answering requests, stopped booking travel, and stopped funding healthcare.
Arts & Soul
Why I started a record label (and other people should, too)
While DIY music culture has typically been credited as being pioneered by the white- and male-dominated punk and later hardcore scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, independent (or DIY) labels have been historic markers in the fight for creative and financial independence for artists of all genres—particularly Black artists—since as early as the 1920s.
Race & Place
Seekin' Freedom: The Hidden Curriculum of the Sea Islands
On the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, enslaved men and women built something that has never fit comfortably into the standard account of American religious history: a private course of study, weeks or months long, that a person had to complete alone before a congregation would accept them. It was…

