Vol. 25 No. 1/2 - Spring/Summer 1997

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Southern Media Monopolized

• From the Editor

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• Roundup

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• Followup

  Catfish workers face new challenges. By Michael Flug

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• Who Owns the Southern Media?

  Media in the South continues to go corporate. By Ron Nixon and Jordan Green

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• A League of Their Own

  Angry white academics hope to revive the Confederacy. By Diane Roberts

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• Ties that Bind

  A Southern black woman discovers her past through a song. By Herb Frazier

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• Best of the Press

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• Alabama Forest Cut Short

  Alabama forestry practices short-change the state. By Bill Finch, et al., Mobile Press-Register

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• Ritalin

  Widespread use of behavior drug sparks a debate. By Mary Loftus, The Ledger

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• Between the Cracks

  Mentally ill prisoners behind bars lack proper attention. By John Desantis, The Courier

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• Coal Companies Abandon Worker's Comp

  Coal operators make millions while shortchanging worker's comp. By Paul Nyden, Charleston Gazette

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• Policing the Police

  Despite reports of police brutality, few cops are ever prosecuted. By Elise Ackerman and Michelle Myer, Miami New Times

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• Junebug: Southern Exposure's Storyteller: Silence is Golden

  By Junebug Jabbo Jones

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• Blueprint for Change

  Unions help in Georgia black congressional district. By Lane Windham

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• Voices from the South

  Caroline Barr: Laughing behind the myth of Mammy. By Teresa Washington

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• Fiction: Jack

  By Ruth Moose

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• Reviews of Southern Media

  Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town called Rosewood and the film Rosewood. By Kevin O'Kelly. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. By Katherine M. Mellen

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• Still the South: Wells

  By Mary Lee Kerr

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