“The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the U.S.-Mexico Border” by Jason De León Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. federal government has relied on a border enforcement strategy known as Prevention through Deterrence. Using various security infrastructure and techniques of surveillance, this strategy funnels undocumented migrants toward …

On Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gertrude Ford Center for the Performing Arts, in a production of “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye channels Fannie Lou Hamer in a riveting 60-minute journey of storytelling showered with eleven inspiring songs and a video montage of the civil rights movement.  The Fannie …

A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 presented by Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite The house at 309 6th Avenue has long been a crossroads for punk rock, activism, veganism, and queer culture in Pensacola, a quiet Gulf Coast city at the border of Florida and Alabama. In A Punkhouse in …