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Stillpoint

A poem on faith and doubt along the Carolina shore

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We discover our family is connected to this other one, and that friend to another one, until we all learn how we are woven into the great sweep of Southern history.

In Arkansas’ Salem Cemetery, everyone you meet is a friend, a neighbor, or maybe even one of your people.

This week brings you the perfect expression of how Southern food isn’t stuck in the past—and two sweet side dishes of food for thought.

A few words about my long talk with the leader of the Blind Boys of Alabama.

Zeniya Cooley is a young Black writer who grew up loving “Gone With the Wind.” Today, she reckons with a world where books imagining a more inclusive world are banned while Old South tomes like “GWTW” go unchallenged.

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An author and playwright navigates her Southern roots and Jewish identity in a world that often saw them as contradictions.

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Jo Ann S. Hoffman

Stillpoint

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