Southern History and Landmarks

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

“Just because I’m a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one!” These words were uttered more than a century ago by a...

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

When they say literature liberates, surely they were talking about Freedom Dreams. Maybe it was love, maybe it was their dimples dancing, the way one...

How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

The Mississippi summer project was a coordinated effort among four civil rights organizations—SNCC, the Congress of...

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