southern exposure
November 16, 2023 -
On a panel at the Southern Exposure 50th anniversary event this spring, Sue Thrasher, Leah Wise, and Bob Hall talked about launching the Institute for Southern Studies and Southern Exposure magazine in the 1970s. Listen to the panel on SLSA’s Working History podcast and read the transcript.
June 21, 2024 -
On the sixtieth anniversary of Freedom Summer, read a collection of work from Southern Exposure about the Mississippi Movement and its aftermath.
May 1, 2024 -
A collection of Facing South and Southern Exposure’s past coverage of militarism and state repression of protest in the South, created for the students, community organizers, faculty, and staff protesting the U.S.-backed destruction in Palestine in cities and on campuses around the country.
April 1, 2024 -
The former Southern Exposure editor and Institute for Southern Studies staffer reflects on his work on the Southern Exposure digital archives project over the last two years and his career at the Institute.
September 27, 2023 -
Facing South is republishing a piece from the 1985 Southern Exposure issue, “We Are Here Forever: Indians of the South,” with an introduction by author Forest Hazel, a historian for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in North Carolina.
August 14, 2023 -
A piece from the 1984 Southern Exposure issue “Elections: Grassroots Strategies for Change,” with an introduction by the issue’s special editor, Marc Miller.
July 13, 2023 -
A poem from the Summer 1981 issue of Southern Exposure by the Alabama-born writer, who passed away earlier this month.