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Southern politics
Voting down the ballot: Which local races matter?
As the South Votes contributor Courtney Napier highlights some important down-ballot races in North Carolina and how voters everywhere can find the information they need to avoid issue fatigue.
Meet Mokah Johnson, heading up a new wave of activism in Georgia politics
When a bar in the supposedly progressive college town put a racist drink called "the n****rita" on their menu, they weren't expecting to launch a political movement.
Love to the RGV from a new generation of activists
While the government dragged its feet this summer for Hurricane Hanna relief, young organizers launched mutual aid in the Rio Grande Valley to meet people's basic needs.
Rep. Attica Scott on her protest arrest: 'This is about the police's power, domination, and control over Black bodies'
In conversation with Kentucky's only Black woman State Representative, who now faces the same class of felony charges as one of the officers who shot Breonna Taylor.
Arts & Soul
Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana
Folk singer Odetta Holmes sang at the 1963 March on Washington and was forgotten by history. We need her music now more than ever.
When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher
Radio personality Mir.I.Am. presents Black AF: a social justice cypher for North Carolina's next great hip-hop artists.
Sprint Nation: The South's track stars are after more than medals
Used to leading on the podium, Southern-born Olympic Medalist Christian Taylor now leads a global effort to organize track and field athletes.
The story of '2 Quarter George,' New Orleans draughtsman
For one man teetering on the margins, lines have become his life. In this gorgeous feature, Frances Madeson sketches the life and inspirations of one of New Orleans' most beloved outsider artists.
Race & Place
North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?
The salvaged law converts death sentences to life without parole as relief from racist trial practices. But writer and death row prisoner Lyle May says life without parole is just 'silent execution.'
Doctor who performed hysterectomies on ICE detainees 'operated by a different set of rules' in rural Georgia
The same doctor also saw scores of other vulnerable, low-income women in the area.
Growing pains
Will West End farmers continue to thrive in the neighborhood, or will they be displaced elsewhere due to the rapid change—and rising costs—of farming in a gentrifying neighborhood?
'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics
This conversation with four Black feminist organizers, writers, and scholars teaches us how Black feminism is both an approach to everyday politics and a visionary practice for a world beyond our political system.
AS THE SOUTH VOTES
Black disillusionment is real, but Black liberation is possible
Don't discount the majority of your state: Reaching rural Southern voters
Black voting rights experts weigh in on disinformation: We've got your back
How photo ID laws and provisional ballots target the most marginalized Southerners
Voter intimidation: 'If they can bring a gun, I can bring my camera'
What do we mean when we talk about voter suppression?
Voting Under Lockdown
Everything you need to know about early and absentee voting in 2020
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