The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.
Tennessee
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Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
“What happened on that Friday and in the days after, when police rounded up even more kids, would expose an ugly and unsettling culture in Rutherford County, one spanning decades. In the wake of these mass arrests, lawyers would see inside a secretive legal system that’s supposed to protect kids, but in this county did […]
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Photographing the Collective Experience of Self-Isolation
“The photographer hopes his brief visits…can help break the oppressive monotony of a seemingly endless day, stretching on without distractions from the outside world.”
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Searching for Souvenirs at Dollywood
On the mysterious, quasi-aspirational allure of Dolly Parton-themed tchotchkes.
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Tennessee, Goddamn: Memphis Fights To Remove Its Confederate Monuments
The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has the city going up against the state of Tennessee.
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Everyone’s Welcome, But Some People Are More Welcome Than Others
“Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”
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‘The fire burned sideways in the cold, red dark’
How the worst fire in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 100 years destroyed 2000 properties, displaced 14,000 people, and killed 14 in under 24 hours.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Sports
The Man Behind the Punishing Barkley Marathons
At the Bitter Southerner, Sarah Estes visits the creator of Tennessee’s strangest sporting event.
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Good Luck, Morons: Lazarus Lake and His Impossible Race
The Barkley Marathons are famous among extreme athletes. The story of the race is great. The story of the man behind it is even better.
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Coretta Scott King Fuelled the Civil Rights Movement with ‘Courage, Dignity, and Poise’
How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.