Posts tagged deep south

MCIR LIVE ‘Hate: What America Faces’. A novelist, a journalist and a lawyer examine the forms hate can take in America

For the last MCIR LIVE event of 2021, MCIR founder and host Jerry Mitchell talked to three guests who have made exploring experiences of hate in the Deep South the centerpiece of their work in new and surprising ways.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellJanuary 4, 2022MCIR Live, deep south, Greg Iles, Stanley Nelson, KKK, Ferriday, Jill Collen Jefferson, lynchings, civil rights movement, civil rights cases, cold cases

Mississippi: Magic, Mystery and Environmental Racism

For any writer, Mississippi is magic. Starting with William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams and moving forward to Richard Wright, Donna Tartt and Richard Ford, among so many others, Mississippi has produced an exceptional number of exceptional writers.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellSeptember 8, 2020Mississippi writers, Jesmyn Ward, Turkey Creek, DeLisle, Dupont plant, Chemours plant, titanium dioxide, rural black communities, deep south, environmental cost, air pollution, toxic pollutants