During my twenties, I spent all the little money I had in Little Five Points (L5P), one of Atlanta’s most eclectic, colorful neighborhoods. I shopped at Sevananda Natural Foods Market Co-op, spent nights at The Vortex, and afternoons at the purple house on the corner of Euclid and Dekalb—home of Charis Books and More, the oldest independent feminist bookstore...
As we close out the 2020 election, the As The South Votes team reflects on their own political journeys—as journalists, and as active agents of change in democracy. My whole life, I was the perfect example of your stereotypical conservative Evangelical millennial. I dreamt of becoming a worship leader like the ones I watched in admiration as a child—singing songs...
I’m down on Parchman farmI sho’ wanna go back homeI’m down on Parchman farmBut I sho’ wanna go back homeBut I hope some dayI will overcome — Bukka White, “Parchman Farm Blues” Built up in the wake of emancipation, Southern prisons went from being small institutions that primarily housed white people to large institutions...