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  • Alabama, ca. 1980

    Originally published on level:deepsouth— for Generation X During the time that Generation X was growing up, Alabama had 3.89 million people living here, more than…

  • Watching “My Name is Pauli Murray” (2021)

    Seemingly overnight, the documentary My Name is Pauli Murray was suddenly everywhere.  I had seen the film among Amazon Prime’s myriad choices, but since I’d…

  • hy pyke in lemora

    A Quick Tribute to Hy Pyke, Gone Fifteen Years Now

    I first saw Hy Pyke as the weird and shifty Mayor Daley in Dolemite. Unlike the latecomers who discovered this blaxploitation classic via Eddie Murphy,…

  • Southern Movie 56: “Poor Pretty Eddie” (1975)

    The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. The…