Eighteen Is Enough
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In 2018, bullets have flown on American school campuses 18 times. It’s time for teachers and parents to fight back.
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What Is Southern Beer?
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We love beers brewed in the South. Just because. But what should a Southern beer taste like?
Read MoreHow to Kill a Community
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Having no broadband access can stop the economies of rural communities in their tracks. Just ask the shrinking population of Carroll County, Mississippi.
Read MoreA Second Helping of Generosity
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The annual release of SweetWater’s Second Helping IPA is coming — and with it, another year of ensuring that restaurant workers, who often live paycheck to paycheck, can weather the storms of life.
Read MoreSong From a Birmingham Church
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You won’t figure out why Doug Jones won in Alabama last night by reading news about the election. The answer, for any Southerner who seeks it, lies in our own history.
Read MoreMayor Keisha
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How the juice of hip-hop creators and consumers turned the tide in a hotly contested mayor’s race in the South’s largest city.
Read MorePrinciples for Principals
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How a school principal interacts with students, teachers, and staff has a huge effect on building an ecosystem where students are treated as people, not test scores.
Read MoreTo Ring in Repeal Day, Visit Tampa
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Tampa Bay was a haven for gangsters and rum-runners during Prohibition. Now, its bartending community celebrates the anniversary of the end of the Noble Experiment with a formal ball and conference.
Read MoreComfort Others
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Southern Food columnist, L. Kasimu Harris, has learned that hard way that when you’re broke, depressed, or heartbroken, you still have to eat. And you still need to feed others.
Read MoreInvesting In Neighbors
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Two Morehouse grads leave investment-banking jobs in New York and come home to Atlanta to help small-business owners get investment capital in neighborhood were banks seldom make loans. And it's working.
Read MoreKnock, and the Door Shall Be Opened
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How did people like Danica Roem manage to win in Southern elections last week? They knocked on thousands of doors — and actually listened when they were opened.
Read MoreTank Ball’s Abundant Life in New Orleans
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Tarronia Ball — the Tank of New Orleans’ Tank and the Bangas — reminds us how “freakin’ beautiful” life is.
Read MoreIn Praise of the School Nurse
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Southern Schooling columnists Adam Jordan and Todd Hawley bring in an expert (who happens also to be Adam’s wife, Kasey) to talk about the critical importance of school nurses in public education.
Read MoreA Hip-Hop Mayoral Race
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Atlanta is about to elect a new mayor. What does that mean for a city where hip-hop music and culture are major economic exports?
Read MoreIt Ain’t Just Our Music
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You already know that Southern music changes the world. It appears that Southern music technology is about to do the same.
Read MoreGainesville Says No to Richard Spencer
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It was a lovely autumn day on the University of Florida campus. Mild temps, gentle breeze. A perfect setting for a few thousand people to gather and express a simple sentiment: Nazi Punks, F**k Off!
Read MoreUnsportsmanlike Conduct
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Novelist Thomas Mullen, author of the great “Darktown” series and a lifelong sports fan, ponders whether any of us can “stay on the sidelines” this NFL season.
Read MoreTranslating Bob Corker
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A decade ago, Tom Lee's job was to get inside Bob Corker’s head as he ran for the U.S. Senate. Today, he tells us what Corker really means when he calls the White House an “adult day care center.”
Read MoreArts Dollars Make Business Sense
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After writing a feature story for us about how Knoxville’s arts scene drives the city’s economy, Rob Rushin follows up with a look at the numbers — and some recommendations for communities that want to nurture their own arts economies.
Read More“Like Sonny Liston”: An Appreciation of Tom Petty
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Writing songs that are truly great is a hard enough job. Writing a perfect song is rare indeed. But in this remembrance of Tom Petty, Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood argues that Petty achieved perfection repeatedly, perhaps more than any other Southern-born songwriter.
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