His Truth is Marching On: In an Axios interview in early August, President Trump declined to comment on the legacy of the recently deceased Rep. John Lewis, and even went as far as to imply that he had done more for Black Americans than the late leader of the South’s civil rights movement of the 1960s. (“Nobody has done more…
Life of a Klansman: What can we learn about racism in 2020 by studying the origins of the Ku-Klux Klan? Edward Ball answers that question with his new book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy. Ball, who is a direct descendant of 19th century Louisiana slaveowner-turned-Klansman Constant Lecorgne, tells us right out of the gate…
Memorial Drive: Natasha Trethewey, along with writers like Jesmyn Ward and Greg Iles, has been a twenty-first century torchbearer for Mississippi’s literary legacy. Her book Native Guard earned her the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and she was named United States Poet Laureate in 2012. Her new memoir, Memorial Drive, is by far her…
The New South Rising 