Gathering marks a half-century since Southern Exposure's founding On March 10 and 11, more than 150 people gathered to celebrate Southern Exposure, the award-winning journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies from 1973 to 2011, and to reflect on its legacy for movements today. (3/17/2023) Read More > On the roots of Southern Exposure The Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of Southern Exposure, a groundbreaking print journal of radical reporting, writing, and oral history about the region. Co-founder Sue Thrasher discussed how the idea for the project began with a conversation she, SNCC Communications Director Julian Bond, and Howard Romaine, one of the founders of the underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird, had on a porch in Atlanta. (3/17/2023) Read More > Southern Exposure magazine to celebrate 50 years of investigations, oral histories The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently reported on the 50th anniversary of Southern Exposure. "This honors the beginning of the magazine, but really, it honors this moment in North Carolina organizing,” said Biff Hollingsworth, collecting and public programming archivist at Wilson Library’s Southern Historical Collection. “And also the print culture of the movement, the importance of independent journalism, the importance of arts and culture, the importance of documenting sort of Southern legacies.” (3/6/2023) Read More > | |
