Code of the South

The original codes of the South were designed to restrict who could build, who could own, and who could sustain institutions and creative enterprises across the American South. Those codes were eventually struck down. The gaps they created were not repaired.

Code of the South exists as a direct response to that history.

We are a Black-owned media company and publisher covering the business of Southern creativity: the music, the art, the film, the literature, the design, the institutions, and the people building creative lives across the American South.

Every era has its codes. We are rewriting them.
The South has always made the culture. It is time the South owned the story.