“In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity.”
Kentucky
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Tasting Indian Creek
“We let the sauce simmer until it is thick. The apparition of my grandmother lingers awhile before it disappears.”
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I Never Called Her Momma
“I always saw crack as the source of my family’s problems. But I learned that addiction went back in our family long before the crack epidemic—as did poverty and neglect.”
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I Feel Most Southern in the Hip-Hop of My Adolescence
“Joy Priest creates a Southern rap soundtrack of the cars, songs, and forces that sculpted her sense of freedom and confinement coming of age in Louisville, Kentucky, in the early 2000s.”
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A Town Under Trial
What an unsolved double murder in Kentucky reveals about America’s military-industrial complex.