Can Teachers Lead a New Revolution Against Racism?
/Todd Hawley and Adam Jordan argue that teachers and parents have a unique opportunity in these troubled times — to lead a new revolution against racism.
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Todd Hawley and Adam Jordan argue that teachers and parents have a unique opportunity in these troubled times — to lead a new revolution against racism.
Read MoreKapri Robinson grew up in Buford, Georgia — and not in a royal family — but now, the young woman wears the crown among Washington bartenders.
Read MoreTardy for repast, and not expecting much else in town, it was a wonderful surprise to find terrific dining options in Columbus, Georgia.
Read MoreMississippi’s Michael Farris Smith is one of the South’s greatest young novelists. His fiction shows us our region and ourselves with a striking, singular voice. He also spends his real life in Mississippi, and makes a strong argument that when it comes to politics, we all live in Mississippi now.
Read MoreSouthern startups are developing wearable technology to monitor head injuries, develop new medical treatments, and even to help dairy farmers keep their herds more productive and happy.
Read MoreMeet Ale Sharpton, who documents Georgia’s craft-beer scene in a language that suits Atlanta perfectly: the language of hip-hop.
Read MoreThe past might not even be past, as Old Bill said, but it clashes head-on into the future at the annual Southern Legislative Conference.
Read MoreThe great Southern musician’s final album comes out today. Chuck Reece interviews Allman’s producer, Don Was, along with Gregg’s manager, guitarist, and best friend about why “Southern Blood” might be the purest expression ever of Allman’s musical soul.
Read MoreOur Southern Schooling columnists — Adam Jordan and Todd Hawley — have some challenges for public-school teachers in our region, who, in the wake of Charlottesville, are wrestling with how to teach about institutional racism and hate groups. They also offer some tools to help teachers get it done.
Read MoreOne of our friends, writer/painter/photographer/historian Amy C. Evans, lives in Houston. She writes today to give us a “tiny taste of how people on the ground are making do.”
Read MoreAfter the Confederate monuments in New Orleans came down, our Southern Food columnist, L. Kasimu Harris, took a road trip with two writing buddies to see if folks in Selma, Alabama, felt differently about the monuments. The rural South, Harris learned, is not always a feast for a food writer.
Read MoreDespite the city’s smaller size, Birmingham, Alabama, barkeeps have built a fine cocktail community that’s homegrown to the core.
Read MoreThe South is built on agriculture. These startups are making sure the fruits of farmers’ labor doesn’t go to the landfill.
Read MoreDr. Joycelyn Wilson wonders what might have happened if James Alex Fields Jr. had been drunk on the raps of Run the Jewels instead of the chants of neo-Nazis?
Read MoreThree members of The Bitter Southerner team look back at the attacks and the murder committed by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read MoreThese days, folks are rethinking the whole shot-and-a-beer thing, coming up with more interesting ways to combine beer and spirits. Bob Townsend examines the still evolving world of beer cocktails with Atlanta barman Greg Best.
Read MoreNew York film director Katherine Dieckmann doesn't take kindly to the disparagement of Southerners. Her new film is a gift to Southerners hungry for an honest movie about real folks.
Read MoreA year after a monumental flood in Louisiana, one of the South’s finest soul bands, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, is teaming up with The Bitter Southerner to put instruments back into the hands of Louisiana school bands.
Read MoreWhen our cars break down, we call mechanics. So, why do we call on politicians who have never stood before a classroom when we talk about our public schools?
Read MoreFor 15 years, bartenders from around the world have converged on New Orleans every July for the world’s largest gathering of bartenders. Some of them wind up face down on the floor in their underwear.
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