Tag: Alabama

Alabama

Alabama

Natalie Chanin

Excerpt from "Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and the School of Making" by Natalie Chanin.

Riot and Reclamation

Riot and Reclamation

Micah Khater
Snapshot: Haiku, 2019

Snapshot: Haiku, 2019

RaMell Ross

For this short “Snapshot” feature, photographers selected one of their photographs and wrote a short reflection on what it shows us about the ever-shifting relationship between people and place in the South.

It Was A Place of Infamy

It Was A Place of Infamy

Pete Candler
Jazz and the Magic City

Jazz and the Magic City

Burgin Matthews

This is the story of jazz in Birmingham, and of Birmingham in jazz—of how Alabama's "Magic City" helped create some of the nation's most swinging and celestial sounds, and of how that city, in the process, came to create itself.

“Sing It So Loudly”

“Sing It So Loudly”

Julia Cox

Reflecting on her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, folk icon Joan Baez was underwhelmed by the resurgence of protest music. “There needs to be more. It’s terribly important, because that’s what keeps the spirit,” she told Rolling Stone. “Carping and shouting, as much as it gets stuff off your chest in front of 100,000, you really need something uplifting . . . The problem right now is we have no anthem.” Baez’s definition of useful music—something uplifting, preferably an anthem—summarizes her own canon of protest music and history with activist movements.

Masters of What Would Not Be Discussed

Masters of What Would Not Be Discussed

Dawne Shand
Clark and Pritchett: A Comparison of Two Notorious Southern Lawmen

Clark and Pritchett: A Comparison of Two Notorious Southern Lawmen

James Reston Jr.
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and: Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (Review)

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and: Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (Review)

Steven F. Lawson
Follow the Money

Follow the Money

Natalie Davis
A Nine-Year-Old Boy’s Memories of World War I

A Nine-Year-Old Boy’s Memories of World War I

Floyd Waldrep
Images of Scottsboro

Images of Scottsboro

Lynn Barstis Williams