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  • Southern Movie 24: “Black Like Me” (1964)

    Southern Movie 24: “Black Like Me” (1964)

    The stark black-and-white 1964 film Black Like Me offers a choppy and vague purview of the substance in the 1961 book of the same name.…

  • Disrupters & Interlopers: James Saxon Childers

    The Disrupters & Interlopers series highlights lesser-known individuals from Southern history whose actions, though unpopular or difficult, contributed to changing the old status quo. Writer,…

  • At the 2018 Alabama Book Festival, April 21

    As we have every year since 2007, my creative writing students and I will be displaying our wares in the exhibitor area of the Alabama…

  • Twelve-and-a-Half Years

    Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed outside his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. He was there to assist the…