Submit now for the Hip-Hop South issue, guest ed by Corey J Miles⁠. "The hip-hop South waits for no one.⁠ André '3000' Benjamin didn’t wait for acceptance when he declared 'the South got something to say,' & for the 30 yrs since...the region has spoken." southerncultures.org/cfp-hip-hop/

CFP: In the South we snap our fingers. We trap. We got crunk in our system. We ride and swerve. Submit now for the Hip-Hop South issue with Southern Cultures. We seek work that willingly grapples with the South as a site of creative resistance. southerncultures.org/cfp-hip-hop/

Meet us in Machipongo! Join @scquartely staff on the Eastern Shore next week as we celebrate the exhibition opening of Snapshot: Climate at the Barrier Islands Center. Opening reception: Thursday, June 13, 4–6:00 PM⁠ southerncultures.org/events/snapsho…

On this day in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, weakening a crucial civil rights law. Read Ben Barber article from the Spring 2024 issue of Southern Cultures to learn more about the case and its impact on the South. southerncultures.org/article/the-so…

First piece for Oxford American, and I’m honored the folks at Freedom Org let me write about their really important work building food sovereignty on land most U.S.-ian farmers wouldn’t touch—the floodplain. Black folk never get the “best” land, but they do the most with it.

y’all still have time to get your essays, photos, & other pieces of art in for the Hip Hop South issue. we wasn’t quiet 30 years ago & we aint quiet now. we making noise with this one!!

There's still time. Submissions for the Hip-Hop South due August 19!

Meet the SOJOURNING issue, edited by @alexispauline, Johnica Rivers, & Michelle Lanier. "What you cannot know at the beginning of a sojourn is who you will be on the other side. This is what we want for you." southerncultures.org/issues/sojourn…

Don't miss your chance to submit to this Southern Cultures issue. Amanda Marie Martinez is the perfect guest editor for it - it's gonna be amazing.

So excited to announce our call for papers for a special issue on Country Music's Mythologies, guest edited by Amanda Marie Martinez! Details here: southerncultures.org/call-for-paper…

New call: Katrina's America, guest edited by Andy Horowitz. "Katrina does not appear to be retreating into the past so much as resounding in the future. It is increasingly clear that we live, today, in Katrina’s America." More: southerncultures.org/call-for-paper… Image: Skylar Fein

SC is Asheville bound! Join our executive ed Ayşe E. 👉 @heyayse.bsky.social at the Punch Bucket Lit Festival this weekend on a panel w/ Ecotone Magazine, TheGreensboroReview, & The Rumpus at 4pm. Details! punchbucketlit.org

Paddler Jim Harrison used to have one story he told to recruit students to the small school where he teaches in SWVA. "I might need a new story," he says. "I might need a new story because on September 27, Hurricane Helene ripped into Southwest Virginia." southerncultures.org/article/i-migh…

Photographer Jesse Barber provides an on-the-ground look at what he's been seeing in his home of Western North Carolina. "We will put our home back together. Not by ourselves, but with each other." southerncultures.org/article/not-by…

NC’s rural and low-income voters are expected to have a significant impact on this year’s presidential election, as Benjamin Barber reports in today's feature: southerncultures.org/article/were-g… photo by @katemedley

Before the results came in, we asked @alexispauline to offer words to share following a long, wearying election season. Her advice, drawn from the texts of Black feminist writers like Audre Lorde, is to "stay strong."⁠ southerncultures.org/article/stay-s…

COVER IMAGE REVEAL! Our special issue on Home features "Neighborhood Watch" by Kevin Brisco Jr. Learn more about Brisco's work in an essay by Aaron Levi Garvey: southerncultures.org/article/kevin-…

Meet our new music reader, "Country's Cool Again," curated by Amanda Marie Martinez. 12 classic hits from the archive + 3 new essays, this collection brings country music’s past & present together to consider why country’s cool again: southerncultures.org/reader/country… illos by Laura Baisden