How Rick Bragg Became His Generation’s Bard of the South
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https://www.europesays.com/3282874/ ‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt #alabama #AmericanSouth #BigTech #Cities&Communities #Data #DataCenters #DonaldTrump #Energy&TheEnvironment #Politics #Poverty&Wealth #Race&Ethnicity #RealEstate #water
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The Curated Bookshelf – October 2026: Books That Invited Me to Play Along
I often find reading to be a calm, relaxing activity. Sometimes I have to think fast to keep up, and sometimes I don’t. While I do like the more leisurely reads, the ones that sweep me away on an adventure and I don’t have to think too hard, I also adore those books that do make me think, that do throw puzzles in my path. I love books that invite me to play along, that encourage me to answer questions and solve riddles. So I thought it would be fun to highlight those this month.
I read this over 20 years ago because I was a weird high school student that knew nothing about philosophy and couldn’t find anything more interesting to read. But I enjoyed it. I learned a lot about philosophy, partly because several questions where posed to Sophie and I felt like I was invited to answer them, too, so my copy is filled with little papers covered in my answers.
Ethics & Culture | Niteen Hatle | Becoming Carmen | Kara Reviews
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I wouldn’t say I’m good at solving riddles and puzzles, but I do love trying my hand at it. This one presented a series of puzzles and cyphers, but I had no clue how to solve any of them. It was fun to consider bending my mind to them before deciding I didn’t know enough to even try.
my review | Barlin’s Books | Danita Reads
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This one might be a bit of a stretch, but it did make me stop and think how I might write a mystery. Set at a mystery writer’s conference where Eleanor is one of the mentors, a syllabus is presented throughout the novel, breaking down how to write a mystery.
my review | Leah’s Books | Book After Book | Feed The Bookworm | Always With a Book
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Similar to The Enigma Challenge, this one offers a lot of different kinds of puzzles as Destiny tries to solve a mystery. Some were easier than others, and readers were even invited to email in (not necessary to enjoy the novel). I had a lot of fun trying to solve the puzzles, but was more wrong than right.
my review | It’s All About Books | Novels Alive | Read Bake Create | The Baking Bookworm
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This one bent my mind into weird shapes. There aren’t any real puzzles, but K is looking for clues that will lead to more clues and following K around while trying to figure out what to remember and what I could discard was surprisingly fun, until it bent too much and I felt like my brain wanted to turn inside out.
my review | Thoroughly Modern Reviewer | The Bibliosanctum | Food for Thought | Before We Go Blog
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I think this one tried by offering questions that were supposedly on this Wonder Test, but there’s zero context given so I quickly found it was impossible to answer the vast majority of them. It was an interesting idea, but not feasible.
my review | What’s Better Than Books? | MBTB’s Mystery Book Blog
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This was a fun one that incorporated puzzles. As a reader, I felt invited to play along. These were so much easier than the puzzles presented in the other books on this list, but the story is also so lovely that I eventually skipped trying to figure out the answers just so I could keep reading.
my review | Novel Notions | Book Thoughts From Bed | The Cozy Owlet | Bookshelf Fantasies
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I enjoy choose your own adventure novels, and this one presented that. I wasn’t as keen on the limited number of options and endings as I eventually found myself on familiar ground too many times, but I liked what this one did.
my review | forests and fiction | dear y’all |Jujucation
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Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
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An untitled picture taken by me one August night in the American South: the heavy air, the muted yet characteristic colors of a sunset, storm clouds in silhouette...the atmosphere is all there. Enjoy the vibes...
#art #twilight #storm #clouds #sunset #AmericanSouth #sky #cloudscape #skyscape #photography #summer
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Subscribe #AmericanSouth #AmericanaLiterature #ArtisticExpression #AtmosphericWriting #BittersweetMemories #BluesAesthetic #BluesAndJazz #books #CharacterStudy #ContemporaryLiterature #ContemporaryPoetry #DeepFeelings #DesertedHighways #EmotionalHealing #EmotionalPoetry #EmotionalResonance #Erwinism #ErwinismPoetry #ExistentialPoetry #FreeVersePoetry #FYP #GuitarSymbolism #HeartbreakPoetry #HighwayNostalgia #HoustonPoetry #HumanVulnerability #Inspiration #IntrospectivePoetry #JazzInspiredWriting #JazzPoetry #KatyFreeway #Learning #Life #LiteraryExpression #literaryImagery #LiteraryMusings #LiteraryPoetry #Literature #LongingAndAbsence #LostLove #Love #LoveAndLoss #LoveAndMusic #LyricalWriting #MaroonSkies #MelancholicVerse #MidnightBlues #MidnightDrive #MilesDavisInspired #ModernPoetry #MoodyAtmosphere #MoodyLiterature #Motivation #MusicAndMemory #MusicMetaphors #NightDrivePoetry #NighttimeReflections #NocturnalImagery #PawnshopSymbolism #Poem #Poems #PoeticImagery #PoeticStorytelling #Poetry #Progress #ReflectiveWriting #romanticMelancholy #SolitudeAndMemory #SorrowAndBeauty #SoulfulWriting #SouthernAtmosphere #SouthernGothicPoetry #SymbolicPoetry #TexasLiterature #TexasNights #TexasPoetry #TobaccoSunburst #UrbanLoneliness #Writing #YearningAndDesire -
"The View from the Lost World", I call this one. Oh, it's rainier and more humid than it was, and the views are more mountainous, but up here on these Smoky Mountains is the forest that once covered the South during the last glacial period...and will again in the next.
#art #photography #forest #landscape #beautifullandscape #SmokyMountains #AmericanSouth #Appalachia #woods #clouds #cloudscape #woodlands #trees #landscape #mountains
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Southern Garden Glider
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Exhibition Marks 70 Years Since Gordon Parks’ Landmark Segregation Photos Published in ‘Life’ Magazine https://petapixel.com/2026/05/16/exhibition-marks-70-years-since-gordon-parks-landmark-segregation-photos-published-in-life-magazine/ #americansouth #lifemagazine #civilrights #GordonParks #segregation #Features
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https://www.europesays.com/people/55343/ Turning Civil Rights Inside Out #AmericanSouth #CivilRightsInAmerica #Congress #democrats #Election2026 #HakeemJeffries #JohnRoberts #Law&Justice #Louisiana #ONTAP #Politics #Race&Ethnicity #redistricting #Republicans #SamuelAlito #SupremeCourt #VotingRights
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Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead
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“In NATCHEZ, Herbert observes how an American city that profits off its antebellum history grapples with its legacy of slavery….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #film #cinema #movies #documentaries #CineMastodon #AmericanSouth #Mississippi #SuzannahHerbert #WomenFilmmakers
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Still the heaviest I've ever seen: 20 inches in a single night, and heavy, wet stuff to boot. But that's what it's like when you're in Asheville and it's, as I put it, "Pouring Snow".
#art #photography #NorthCarolina #winter #noreaster #snow #snowstorm #heavysnow #AmericanSouth #Appalachia
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"My cousin Matt and I joke that we come from a short line of Asian rednecks. Like me, he and his brothers are half Japanese.
In Alabama, we’re just anomalies.
Kim Cross for Southlands: https://southlandsmag.com/the-persimmon-tree-at-stand-five/
#Longreads #Essay #Alabama #Hunting #Identity #Japanese #Belonging #AmericanSouth
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Everyone complains about #South, no one complains about #AmericanSouth.
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"Fear was essential to keeping white power intact, and as the civil rights movement whipped up revolutionary energy across the Black Belt, Lummie’s and his colleagues’ efforts intensified."
An excerpt from the new #Atavist story, by Alexandra Marvar: https://longreads.com/2026/01/06/lummie-jenkins-alabama-atavist/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #History #America
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US Supreme Court weighs ‘earthquake’ ruling on Voting Rights Act – BBC
Image via WP There were protests outside the court on Wednesday as it heard arguments.US Supreme Court weighs ‘earthquake’ ruling that could reshape political map
Published: October 15, 2025
By Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent and Kayla Epstein
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that could dramatically reshape the electoral politics of the American south.
The court heard a challenge to a central pillar of the Voting Rights Act, which was originally designed to protect the electoral power of black Americans in the face of state-sanctioned discrimination.
Although the session was scheduled for only an hour, it stretched for more than twice as long, with the nine justices peppering lawyers in the case with questions.
Once the legal dust had settled, it appeared possible that a majority of the court was open to a substantial reinterpretation of the landmark civil rights era law.
If the challenge is successful, it could lead to the redrawing of congressional districts across the south that, by some estimates, could flip more than a dozen seats from Democratic to Republican.
Given the current narrow partisan divide in the US House of Representatives, such a ruling has the potential to give President Donald Trump’s party a decisive advantage in retaining their majority in next year’s midterm congressional elections.
According to UCLA law Professor Rick Hansen, it would reverse decades of court precedent and amount to an “earthquake in the American political system”.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: US Supreme Court weighs ‘earthquake’ ruling on Voting Rights Act
#AmericanSouth #BBC #Minorities #OverturnDecadesOfPrecedent #Redistricting #SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStates #USHouseOfRepresentatives #Voting #VotingRightsAct
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“To embrace #nativism in a #global, connected #economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion, just as the main effect of racial #segregation in the #AmericanSouth was to leave the region #impoverished and #underdeveloped” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
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Q&A: ‘Still Pushing’: Alabama’s Complex Past and Nuanced Future
For many Americans, Alabama is the center of America’s unchanging South, a place with a history so painful…
#NewsBeep #News #Books #Alabama #AmericanSouth #Cities&Communities #Entertainment #EycesTubbs #Politics #Race&Ethnicity #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The Jewish Women's Archive offers an Online History Course Belles and Butches: Jewish Women in the American South on Thursdays, September 4 - 25, at 8 PM ET / 2AM CET | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/online-course-belles-and-butches-jewish-women-in-the-american-south/
#Women #AmericanSouth #Gender #Jews
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Abandoned Dunnington Mansion in Farmville, Virginia
A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.#mansions #americansouth #golf #abandonedhouses #abandoned #section-Atlas
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"I drove all over Georgia investigating places where people used to swim that faded from the map after integration: pools filled, lakes drained, beaches sliced into private properties."
Hannah S. Palmer for Earth Island Journal: https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/the-american-souths-missing-pools-and-lakes
#Longreads #AmericanSouth #TheSouth #Atlanta #Georgia #Water #Pools #PublicSpace #Waterways #Lakes #Race #Segregation #Swimming
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Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, South Carolina
This former courthouse is allegedly the site of the last witch trial in the United States.#americansouth #history #witches #section-Atlas
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Canton Theatre in Canton, Georgia
This historic, century-old theater is still in operation.#americansouth #theaters #artdeco #section-Atlas
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🟡 Sleepy Time Down South, Bluesman & Guitar 1941 by Saul Kovner
#AfricanAmerican, #AmericanSouth, #BlackAmerica, #Blues, #Mid20thCentury, #Musician, #SaulKovner
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🟡 African American Boy & Banjo 1877 Thomas Eakins
#AmericanSouth, #Banjo, #BlackAmerica, #ThomasEakins
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🟡 Indians on the Lower Mississippi 1860s George Catlin
#19thcentury, #AmericanSouth, #Indigenous, #Mississippi, #NativeAmerican, #River
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🟡 Steamboat Wooding Up on the Mississippi 1863 Frances Flora Bond Palmer
#19thcentury, #AmericanSouth, #Boats, #FrancesFloraBondPalmer, #Mississippi, #Night, #Paddlewheels, #Rivers, #Steamboats
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🟡 Steamboats on the Mississippi Rounding a Bend 1866 Frances Flora Bond Palmer
#19thcentury, #AmericanSouth, #Boats, #Fireworks, #FrancesFloraBondPalmer, #FullMoon, #Mississippi, #River, #Steamboats
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🟡 Steamboats Racing on the Mississippi 1866 Frances Flora Bond Palmer
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🟡 The Dancing Lesson 1878, Thomas Eakins
#19thcentury, #AfricanAmerican, #AmericanSouth, #Black, #Guitar, #ThomasEakins
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🟡 Midnight Steamboat Race on the Mississippi 1875
#19thcentury, #AmericanSouth, #Boats, #Mississippi, #Moon, #Night, #Rivers, #Steamboats
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🟡 Jitterbugging In A Juke Joint, Clarksdale, Mississippi 1939 I
#AmericanSouth, #BlackAmerica, #Blues, #Early20thCentury, #Jukejoints, #Mississippi, #UnitedStates
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🟡 Jitterbugging In A Juke Joint, Clarksdale, Mississippi 1939 II
#AmericanSouth, #BlackAmerica, #Blues, #Early20thCentury, #Jukejoints, #Mississippi, #UnitedStates
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🟡 Natchez–Vidalia Bridge & Mississippi River, Natchez, Mississippi
#AmericanSouth, #Bridges, #CarolM.Highsmith, #Mississippi, #MississippiRiver, #Natchez, #NatchezVidalia, #Photography, #Rivers, #USA
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