W. Ralph Eubanks
A writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. President, Authors Guild
- My first nationally syndicated piece of writing was published by the Washington Post (and edited by David Ignatius). My first book was reviewed by the Post's Pulitzer Prize winning critic Jonathan Yardley. Most important, as a proud Washingtonian, this hurts. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
- This is appalling and infuriating. This change is being made because the “great replacement theory” is the same philosophy as the one advocated by Byron de la Beckwith. mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
- It's a week before my book talk and blues show at Friendly City Books in Columbus, Mississippi. It should be a fun evening! www.friendlycitybooks.com/events/260212
- The University of Mississippi, a school that has worked to eliminate historical vestiges of racism has seen a 50 percent increase in Black enrollment. The change has not gone unnoticed by students. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
- In September 2025, the university erected a plaque in front of Fulton Chapel honoring the Ole Miss 8, a group of eight Black students who in 1970 were expelled from the university for leading a peaceful protest. Yet more work remains to be done to confront the past. thedmonline.com/more-black-s...
- When people are oppressed, they have to find some way to release that, and that very often comes through art. In this case, release in the Delta came through the Blues.
- More than a form of storytelling, Blues music has always been a form of protest. We have the Mississippi Delta to thank for one of the first popular musical forms of the US. @wralpheubanks.bsky.social
- “Granted, it is really like apples to oranges to compare the freezing rain that pummeled Mississippi with the protests occurring in Minneapolis. But it was Reeves who chose to make that comparison…” mississippitoday.org/2026/02/01/r...
- The @authorsguild.org mission is to protect authors and journalists’ rights, and today we stand by writers and journalists on the ground in Minnesota and elsewhere who are calling power to account, as writers have always done. authorsguild.org/news/ag-and-...
