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Rosalind Bentley
Rosalind Bentley is a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Before he praised famous men
Years before the publication of his haunting landmark book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” writer James Agee traveled the dirt roads and cotton fields of Alabama to document the life of poor, white tenant farmers in the 1930s. He was on an assignment for Fortune magazine, then run by ...
Trethewey to serve second term as U.S. poet laureate
Natasha Trethewey, the U.S. poet laureate who has written elegantly about the brutality and grace that has shaped Southern life as well as her own, has been appointed to a second term as the nation’s top poet. In a statement released Monday, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington called Trethewey’s ...
Is there redemption after murder?
It was the sort of crime tabloids love to exploit, the kind people gossip about in grocery store aisles in a girl-can-you-believe-it tone. In broad daylight, a young thug gunned down the mother of a girl he wanted to date because the mother didn’t want her daughter to be involved ...
National Black Arts Festival announces season line up despite challenging future
The National Black Arts Festival announced today its 25th Anniversary season line-up, a packed, three-month schedule that includes a Pan-African Film Festival, jazz concerts and pop-up performance art events. It’s a schedule that is heavy on free events from July through September at venues around the city, from concert halls ...
More recommended titles for summer reading
CRIME “The Broken Places” by Ace Atkins. Since 2011’s “The Ranger,” Sheriff Quinn Colson, veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, has been waging war on crime in his hometown of Jericho, Miss., where meth dealers and gun-runners and the occasional turnip thief always know right where to find him. In Atkins’ ...
Pulitzer Prize winning poet to read at Emory
The last time you read a poem, did you read it to yourself silently? If so, poet W.S. Merwin believes there’s no way you could have fully detected its true meaning. To do that, a poem must be read aloud. Maybe read aloud only to yourself, but read aloud nonetheless. ...
Atlanta Opera to appoint new general and artistic director
The Atlanta Opera will announce Thursday the hiring of Tomer Zvulun to be its new general and artistic director. Zvulun, 37, will officially take the reins of the opera June 1, 10 months after the abrupt resignation of Dennis Hanthorn, who had held the position for 8 years. Zvulun, who ...
Author writes a new chapter
The undisputed best moments for Bill Starr during his tenure as director of the Georgia Center for the Book were those nights when he’d introduce an author to a packed house of 1,000 people, and after the reading the audience would rush out and line up to have its books ...
Science Fiction, Civil Rights and Zombies
Let’s say both of your parents were big civil rights workers. Your father was a civil rights attorney. Your mother was a lifelong civil rights activist who was nearly blinded when a Florida policeman threw a tear gas canister in her face during a 1960 march for integration. Growing up, ...
‘Whipping Man’ casts light on Southern Jewish slave owners
The thing about American’s history with chattel slavery, aside from the fact that a lot of people just don’t want to talk about it anymore, is that it continues to surprise us. We’re surprised by things that were always there in plain sight but that we looked right past. For ...
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