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A Southern Movie Bonus: Three Deep Southern Documentaries

I discovered back in 2009 and 2010, during my “Patchwork” project, how the national media is only really interested in telling stories of the Deep South when they regard college football, political chicanery, and weirdo-freaks. (To test this hypothesis, I recently started getting a daily Google Alerts again, with the keyword Alabama, and that trend still holds true.) However, there are so many stories from the region that are worth telling, that are worth hearing, and that lend themselves to a more accurate picture of how we struggle with poverty,… Read more A Southern Movie Bonus: Three Deep Southern Documentaries