Adia Victoria
The legacy of the South has a long, creeping stain of hatred, injustice and violence on it. But there’s a great deal of history and work, especially the labor and cultural contributions of Black people, woven into the fabric. Musician and poet Adia Victoria has dedicated her overall body of work — and specifically A Southern Gothic, a rich, dark record about grappling with the pain of displacement that she co-produced with T Bone Burnett — to reorienting the narrative. She drives home the point that while the South may be a place where the white supremacy that exists everywhere is enshrined like it is nowhere else, it is her home.
