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Musings on the American South, its music, its people, and its ways
How singers Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs personify the power of music to bridge racial divides.
I Buy Books Like My Hair's on Fire
My longest bookshelves sag a bit. We should have made them shorter or -- as my husband probably thinks but is too smart to say -- I should buy fewer books.
How "Amazing Grace" changed the lives of Charles Bryan and Robert Bradley -- and its never-ending relevance to American society.
The South is a land of contradictions. How to love a place when it stops loving you back.
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