In 2006, photographer Gina LeVay began her odyssey into the Spanish-speaking world of toreras—female matadors. “A lot of them have gotten gored, injured, and they just get up and want to do it again. They’re fearless.”
The all-time peak for cotton farming in Mississippi was 1930, when more than 4 million acres were grown. In 2009, barely 300,000 acres were planted statewide. Mississippi has transformed from the Land of Cotton to the Land of Soybeans and...
Educated to think critically at all times, I’m hesitant to announce a lingering curiosity about the possible existence of a benevolent, miraculous beyond. If you describe yourself as a thinking person, it’s hard to speak of sensing an...