Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee serves as arts editor for the Mobile, Alabama newsweekly Lagniappe. He won Mobile Press Club awards for Best Commentary Print and In-Depth Reporting for Non-Daily Newspaper in 2004 and 2005 and has been published in Miami’s ARTPULSE and New Orleans’ The Pelican Bomb.

LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY

It’s Way Too Hard to Put Up a Monument to Lynching Victims

The opposition to a Mobile, Alabama, roadside marker commemorating Black people murdered by white mobs shows how much more needs to be done to reckon with a shameful legacy.

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ROSETTA STONE

He Foresaw America’s Crackup in 2011—He Says It’s Worse Now

“The hour is later than you think,” says the author of American Nations.

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DEATH THROUGH INACTION

Anti-Vaccine Insanity Is Sweeping Through Mobile, Alabama

People like me with illnesses are isolated and angry as the myth of Southern hospitality has given way to something much uglier, with just one in three adults here vaccinated.

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Why Southern Progressives Don’t Just Move Somewhere Else

The willful ignorance, the racism, the ecological disregard, it’s all maddening for us. But it also means that this is where we’re needed the most.

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‘A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE SCENE’

How the Detective Blamed for One Lynching Solved Another

Mobile, Alabama, sold itself as a place that was different than other Southern towns and racially tranquil. That wasn’t the experience of police officer Wilbur Williams.

Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

It’s Way Too Hard to Put Up a Monument to Lynching Victims

He Foresaw America’s Crackup in 2011—He Says It’s Worse Now

Anti-Vaccine Insanity Is Sweeping Through Mobile, Alabama

Why Southern Progressives Don’t Just Move Somewhere Else

How the Detective Blamed for One Lynching Solved Another

COVID Would Kill Me. Too Bad I Live in a Vaccine Hellhole.

A Cancerous Legacy for Descendants of the Last Slave Ship

‘No Trouble Here’: Can Mobile Own Up to Its Lynching Legacy?