During my time in Paris, I am also giving talks about my ongoing research and other topics. Recently, I met with a group of students in a…

Frank Yerby and Blanca Perez’s Grave. Photo by the author.

Madison Square Garden (MSG) played host to the “Pro American Rally” on February 20, 1939. Over 20,000 people packed into MSG to take part…

During my Fulbright in Norway, I had the opportunity to give talks at various universities in France, Poland, Austira, and elsewhere. In…

A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

Since reading the first volume of Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez’s Absolute Martian Manhunter, I knew I wanted to pick up the second…

I have been sitting on this essay for a couple of years. It is an essay that Emma Williams and I co-wrote in my Lillian E. Smith and…

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

This collection comes out of a partnership with historian Keri Leigh Merritt, whose biography An Inconvenient Woman recovers the story of Lillian Smith, a white Southern writer who spent her life figh...

The FBI's targeting of civil rights activist Lillian Smith provides lessons for solidarity and resistance

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee concluded a three-day ...

I came across The Muslims’ Fuck These Fuckin’ Fascists, a 12-song, 22-minute blast of pure punk resistance. The Black and Brown, all-queer, Muslim three-piece pushes back against white supremacy, the ...

Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of “A View from the Mountain,” the Lillian E. Smith Center’s newsletter.

Examining a range of little magazines published across the Southern states between 1921 and 1945, The Serial South is the first full-length study of literary...

Every time I listen to Propaganda and Sho Baraka’s “Cynical,” new lines stick out to me. A lot of times, the first few lines of Sho…

I have been sitting on this essay for a couple of years. It is an essay that Emma Williams and I co-wrote in my Lillian E. Smith and…

The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the initial publication of Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream, and as …

A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

What makes Lillian Smith’s work endure? What makes any writer’s work endure? The relationship between an author and their text, and a text…

A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…