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Southern politics
When Democracy meets Partisanship
As The South Votes: Sara Ghazal on misinformation about Georgia's 2020 election audit, and the history of North Carolina's own party politics nightmare.
Celebrity chefs cook up joy at the polls in the South
People in long waiting lines at the polls are hungry for more than change. They gotta eat. Meet the celebrity chefs feeding voters.
If the Democratic Party made the perfect candidate in a lab, it would be Adrian Perkins
The popular mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, wants to quit—but he's got good reason.
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.
Arts & Soul
Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson
Poems by Taylor Johnson, Jericho Brown, & Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "I sing and find it underlined by a beloved stranger. It's like turning the record over and knowing you're hearing what I'm hearing."
Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now
Three poets whose words ring true during the COVID-19 crisis. Poems by Emily Brown, Maeve Holler, and Xandria Phillips take on a whole new light.
In Photos: When we couldn't come home
The homecoming festivities that happen every fall across the South's 90 HBCU's are perhaps the nation's greatest celebrations of Black cultural life. Howard University alum Philip Harris captures how the pandemic has affected this beloved tradition.
The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South
An exclusive look into the Invisible Histories Project collection: From lesbians with gourds on their heads in rural Georgia to a 1980s Birmingham bar called Mabel's Beauty Shop & Chain Saw Repair.
Why drill and trap are the soundtrack of this generation's protests
Chief Keef's "Faneto" validates feelings of rebellion, but could never be described as healing. Why the drill and trap music played at protests is fitting for a generation that's through with empty promises.
Race & Place
Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic
From Durham to St. Louis, Black women continue legacies of nourishing bodies and spirits in crisis.
A Native Crew asks: 'Whose land are you skating on?'
Florida Folx: A Gay, Commie Skate Crew on Modern Indigenous resilience and joy.
This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers
COVID-19 woes spark fresh business for North Carolina's Black farmers. Tall Grass Food Box serves collards and Black agriculture.
After two devastating hurricanes, southwest Louisiana worries the rest of the country has already moved on
Battered by two hurricanes in six weeks, southwest Louisiana faces a long recovery and renewed questions about climate justice
Black Power in the South: How to support the movement after the election
As we ground our future organizing in building and expanding independent Black political power, here are some groups on the ground across the South already doing that work.
AS THE SOUTH VOTES
Voting may have ended, but the work has just begun
How Georgia and Texas organizers are reimagining the culture of voting
Voting down the ballot: Which local races matter?
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'
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