Facing South

March 17, 2023 - The Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of Southern Exposure, a groundbreaking print journal of radical reporting, writing, and oral history about the region. Co-founder Sue Thrasher discussed how the idea for the project began with a conversation she, SNCC Communications Director Julian Bond, and Howard Romaine, one of the founders of the underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird, had on a porch in Atlanta.