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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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The South Just Has a Thang

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Watching Willie’s Back

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The Muse of Memphis

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Eartha Kitt, Coming Home

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—Dolly Parton

Issue 111, Winter 2020

Nina Is Everywhere I Go

Nina teaches me how to carry my anger, how to pour the pain into a poem, how to enrapture an audience, how to carry myself like a Black queen even when I feel shattered.

By Tiana Clark
Issue 111, Winter 2020

R.E.M. for the People

By sometime in the middle eighties, R.E.M. found themselves occupying that strange rock & roll realm where they were idolized by people who, in...

By Elizabeth Wurtzel
Issue 111, Winter 2020

Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)

By Kiese Laymon