Gravy is our journal and podcast duo of original narratives that are fresh, unexpected, and thought-provoking.
September 5, 2019
Gospel star Mahalia Jackson used fried chicken to push for economic empowerment in the black community.
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September 16, 2019
A poem by Ashley M. Jones.
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I’m Ashley Christensen, I’m a gay woman, I’m a leader, I’m a voice and a catalyst for positive change, and I’m an…
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Sunday brunch became my saving grace.
Visit Fiesta Fest in De Queen, Arkansas, for sopes, mangonadas, and norteño tunes.
Head to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for a taste of Dollywood.
In the early 1970s, two hundred hippies from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood resettled in rural Tennessee.
More than anything, Fernay wanted to cook for her neighborhood.
King Biscuit Time sold flour—and the Delta blues.
Spring 2019
Atlanta is the capital of black hair. It’s also the locus of a robust network of home cooks serving those doing hair…
We are pleased to share the films from the 2019 SFA Documentary Film Workshop.
Mexican culture is now as much a part of New Orleans as the Saints and Louis Prima.
Some cookbooks make me want to cook. Lafcadio Hearn’s made me want to get into a fight.
To mark our twentieth anniversary, SFA has commissioned an ongoing series of short founder films and completed an oral…
Ava Lowrey is SFA's Pihakis Documentary Filmmaker.
Annemarie Anderson is SFA's Oral Historian.
Beginning in the year of his death, white Mississippians co-opted the Blind Jim story to further the segregation of…
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