The Making of a Sundown Town: Patrick Phillips on “Blood at the Root”
Over a thousand black residents of one Georgia county were driven from their homes in a wave of violence in…
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is the author of Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers University and blogs on writing at www.tayarijones.com/blog. She lives in Brooklyn.
A Toehold on the Dream: Angela Flournoy and Tayari Jones
The respective authors of “The Turner House” and “Silver Sparrow” on the pull of Detroit, writing about today’s burning issues,…