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With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.

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Issue 91, Winter 2015

Searching the Desert for the Blues

Blind Willie McTell simply kept showing up—and showing up under all those unlikely pseudonyms.

By Peter Guralnick
Points South

If You Would Know Us

Notes on the Wilmington Massacre and a live performance by Birds of Chicago in Points South Episode 3, Season 2.
Issue 116, Spring 2022

People Change All the Time

Her hand clamps on to my wrist and I feel her whole weight pressing behind it, using me for balance.

By Charles Ramsay McCrory

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

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If You Would Know Us

KaToya Ellis Fleming investigates the backlash and legacy of violence caused by the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in North Carolina and a performance by the American folk duo Birds of Chicago.

Half My World

Tess Taylor explores Anne Spencer's poetry and a live performance by Lucy Dacus. This episode marks the first time Anne Spencer's voice will be broadcast outside of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum.

The Borderlands

A dispatch from the Rio Grande Valley and a performance by Adia Victoria

Eyes on the South

Fossils of the Future

By Kristen Regan

Hunting for the Archetype

By Julie Dermansky

Between the Magical and the Mundane

By Maury Gortemiller

An Historic Transformation

By Blake Burton

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Eyes on the South

An Historic Transformation

By Blake Burton
Eyes on the South

An Overwhelming Cacophony

By Ian Mahathey
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Believing is Seeing

”Do we simply see what we believe or do we believe what we see?“

By Elizabeth Moran
Eyes on the South

Between the Magical and the Mundane

By Maury Gortemiller

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