Alabama on your mind? These titles are either set in Alabama or are written by Alabama authors- or both! The Wife Upstairsby Rachel Hawkins Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no…
Driving through the Avondale area this past weekend, a cluster of signs along the street piqued my interest. It was for a new school and I hastily entered the name into Google on my phone so that I could explore it further when I wasn’t driving. The name of the school is Magic City Acceptance…
dark // thing by Ashley M. Jones dark // thing is a multi-faceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work, full as it…
