A $35 Chicken Dinner in Mississippi? How New York Prices Went National. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/d...

“So much of White America has a one-dimensional idea of blackness . And she was trying to capture it in all its complexity.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

I was saddened to hear today of the death of the writer Maxine Clair. Her novel in stories “Rattlebone” is one that deserves to be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight . thesewaneereview.com/articles/man...

Feed: "South Side Weekly" By: Delaney Eubanks on Wednesday, September 17, 2025

America can learn from the Germans. Hire alles ist nicht klargekommen.

“Music, and specifically the blues, was an integral part of Maxwell Street. In order to be heard over all the market din, electric guitars would be plugged in outside storefronts.” Yes, Chicago is Mississippi north. southsideweekly.com/the-lost-nei...

these are segregationists

The Authors Guild has partnered with James Patterson for his inaugural “Go Finish Your Book” grant, which awards up to $50,000 each to authors completing their works in progress. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4mcZFac

“As part of the orientation, Residents are given copies of W. Ralph Eubanks’ book, A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape.” www.ama-assn.org/medical-resi...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

“There are so many stories across this state that are buried or truly hiding in plain sight. People who want to tell those stories might not yet have found the right path to tell them. This residency could be life-changing for them and for us all.” mississippitoday.org/2025/09/09/g...

At this year's Mississippi Book Festival, I will be part of the Monument Lab Bulletin panel. We'll be discussing the current issue of the Bulletin, titled Reverence, which honors the 70th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till. www.wralpheubanks.com/new-events/2...

“The prospect that one day the university would commemorate such a brave act of radical activism, much less speak about it openly, seemed impossible,” Eubanks said. “Today, we are officially breaking the silence about the Fulton Chapel Black Power protest.” thedmonline.com/plaque-place...

“Seventy-five titles by or about Wittgenstein so far,” he said, referring to the Austrian philosopher….”And most of them are annotated, meaning Cormac read them closely. A lot of Hegel. That was his light evening reading, apparently.” www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

“When It’s Darkness on the Delta” is now available for preorder.

“Mississippi’s law, by contrast [with UKLaw], would block everyone from accessing the site—teens and adults—unless they hand over sensitive information, and once they do, the law in Mississippi requires Bluesky to keep track of which users are children.” mississippitoday.org/2025/08/25/b...

On September 2, 2025, the Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker commemorating the 1970 Fulton Chapel Protest will be dedicated. If you are around Oxford, Mississippi then, please consider attending.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

As Jonathan Lemire noted yesterday in The Atlantic, in the week before the meeting, leaders in Ukraine and Europe worried that Trump would agree to Putin’s demand(s)…. The summit appears to have produced nothing but a favorable photo op for Putin.

When I was writing my chapter on the river towns of Natchez and Vicksburg, Greg Iles was so generous with his time snd provided incredible insights into his hometown of Natchez. He will be missed. mississippitoday.org/2025/08/15/a...

“Being white these days isn’t what it used to be.” From Jim Crow’s last gasp to Black Lives Matter, white Southerners have had a lot to process about what their racial status means in a changing South.

If DC voted Republican, we would make them the 51st state just to pick up the senators.

DC does not match the dystopian picture depicted by the White House— including “bloodthirsty criminals” and “roving mobs of wild youth” — and this picture stands in sharp contrast to official crime statistics.

One of the grants was to a professor writing a book on the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and 1980s. On a spreadsheet entitled “Copy of NEH Active Grants,” the government flagged the work as being connected to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. apnews.com/article/doge...

“Speaking after the hearing, Eubanks said his experience teaching college students who use tools such as ChatGPT makes him worry that AI will erode not only the market for books but the craft of writing.”

I’m on my way to #RAGBRAI, so I didn’t get to open the box of advanced reader copies of “When It’s Darkness on the Delta,” coming in January 2026 from @beaconpress.bsky.social . A photo from home will have to do.

Bennie Brown is training up a new generation of farmers in the Mississippi Delta by reviving a 1870s concept established by the Swan Lake Association.

"Now may be the time to take what has been lost in the translations of the blues and recover its real value as instruction on how to survive, thrive, and move forward." hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

Rather than admit a mistake, the Trump administration is trying to build a criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia by cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to deport him again, @NickMiroff writes.

“We’re all living in Mississippi now,” said Eubanks. “Everybody in this county has at least one foot in Mississippi whether they want to admit it or not.” mississippitoday.org/2025/06/27/d...

So wonderful to talk history, storytelling, and the legacy of Medgar Evers with @joyannreid.bsky.social and Ebony Lumumba (we missed you, Eddie Glaude).

Great conversation about the stories we tell - and don't tell - with @wralpheubanks.bsky.social, @joyannreid.bsky.social, and Dr. Ebony Lumumba. Thank you, Joy, for the shout-out to Reconstruction!

"Everyone in this country has at least one foot in Mississippi, whether they know it or not." - @wralpheubanks.bsky.social on current events

I’m so honored to be a part of this event that celebrates the legacy of Medgar Evers. www.clarionledger.com/story/entert...

Did you publish with 8th Note Press and need your rights back? If you're one of the authors affected by 8th Note Press's sudden shutdown, you're not alone. We understand the devastation of having your book unpublished and your rights tied up. The Authors Guild is here to help. Reach out to us.

“To make sure they’re compliant with the law, constitutional law professors must cut out references to the Fourteenth Amendment and to cases about discrimination—a huge branch of American judicial history—from their lectures and even their textbooks.” www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-t...

“He was on fire. Adrian’s son was on fire.” Read from ‪@robertpbaird.com‬’s new novel, The Nimbus.

A real delight to see THE NIMBUS written up in this week’s @newyorker.com! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m lucky that my three children were born between the ages of 35 and 40. But once I was accused of being an older father. I reacted badly to that accusation. But @jelaniya.bsky.social shows it is a badge of honor.

“Smoke and Stack are protesting the circumstances that they have to come into. …That’s the ultimate protest, reclaiming a space. And I think that’s what’s happening right now. People are reclaiming this place.” oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/sinne...

Clarksdale, Mississippi, is hosting a weeklong celebration of Ryan Coogler's film "Sinners," which is set in 1930s Clarksdale. The celebration includes screenings of "Sinners" and discussions like this one I'll be a part of, "Building a Blues Economy Rooted in Dignity on May 30 at 10:30 am.

“Trump’s behavior should not be lightly dismissed as boorishness. It must be recognized for what it really is: a menace to the integrity of the society that gave him the world’s most powerful platform.”

In an era where storytelling has the power to unite and inspire or divide and demean, the Deep South Convening is taking one big step to overcoming the historical and contemporary challenges that writers in the South face while gathering and amplifying a diverse array of voices from the region.

Norm! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...

Join me and Eddie Glaude, Jr., for a discussion of James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son. Register now. authorsguild.org/event/readin...

Congratulations , Ann Fisher-Wirth on being named poet laureate of Mississippi! arts.ms.gov/ann-fisher-w...

📢 NEXT WEDNESDAY! @authorsguild.bsky.social is hosting @wralpheubanks.bsky.social and @esglaude.bsky.social’s reading session of James Baldwin’s NOTES OF A NATIVE SON! 70 years since publication, the book is as potent as ever!

BREAKING: The Authors Guild and a group of scholars and writers filed a class action lawsuit against the NEH, its leadership, and officials within the “DOGE” for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants. Full statement: authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

To suddenly redirect congressionally-appropriated funds away from hundreds of scholars and creators midway through their projects—leaving them financially vulnerable and professionally compromised—isn’t just administratively questionable, it’s morally indefensible. authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

“As a former Library of Congress employee, along with both the presidents of the Authors Guild and Authors Guild Foundation, Ralph Eubanks and Marie Arana, we are profoundly saddened by Trump’s politically motivated removal of Dr. Hayden.” authorsguild.org/news/ag-cond...