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To the other 98%: Lessons from the nation's Black male educators

by Letrell Harris & Horace Ryans May 14, 2021May 14, 2021

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Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021

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Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022

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The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead

by Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

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The Jewish South is Black, too

by Nic Yeager April 2, 2021April 2, 2021

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He thought he could be a 'good' cop. Now, he's working to end policing as we know it.

by Gabbriel Schivone March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

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In Arkansas, falling behind on rent could mean jail time

by Maya Miller & Ellis Simani, ProPublica; & Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network March 22, 2021March 26, 2021

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Alabama taxpayers have paid $4 billion toward a policy that Governor Ivey refuses to bring home

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 16, 2021March 29, 2021

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The majority of Alabamians want Medicaid expansion

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 15, 2021March 29, 2021

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The Southern Tenant Union Playbook

by Sam Russek March 12, 2021March 15, 2021

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Jackson's water crisis: How you can help

by Tim Majors and Scalawag Editors March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

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Texas' oldest Black university was built on a former plantation. Its students still fight a legacy of voter suppression.

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021

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How a Black and Latinx coalition turned utilities back on in LaGrange

by Lewis Raven Wallace February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

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A new administration still leaves Southern abortion funders with political and cultural barriers

by Clare Busch February 9, 2021February 11, 2021

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Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won

by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021March 23, 2021

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1.8 million eligible North Carolina voters didn't cast ballots in 2020. Trump won the state by 74,481.

by Coleen Harry, WFAE January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

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Five Peachy Takeaways: Georgia's grassroots organizing lessons will be valuable in the South for a long time coming

by Anoa Changa January 22, 2021August 20, 2021

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What the Capitol riots show us about the white illusion of civility

by Lovey Cooper and Katherine Webb-Hehn January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

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Redistricting will impact Texas politics for the next 10 years. Here's how it works.

by Yasmeen Khalifa, The Texas Tribune January 4, 2021January 25, 2021

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Georgia's absentee voting policies benefit Democrats, but they were originally created by Republicans

by Christopher Alston, WABE December 28, 2020January 25, 2021

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Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

by Iliana Hagenah December 22, 2020January 5, 2021

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The obvious solution to Houston's housing crisis: 'Just cease all evictions'

by Sam Russek December 21, 2020August 26, 2021

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To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

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'If I asked my family to get rid of a bumper sticker, they would tell me to quit my job.'

by Iliana Hagenah December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

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I ran from my church after Trayvon Martin's murder—but not from my religion

by Courtney Napier December 17, 2020December 18, 2020

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

by R. Garringer December 15, 2020January 5, 2021

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Dissent in the Pentagon of the South

by Taylor Barnes December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

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Democrats eventually won Black youth voters, but will they keep them?

by Iliana Hagenah December 10, 2020December 15, 2020

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The Last, the Least, and the Lost

by Courtney Napier and Anoa Changa December 3, 2020January 11, 2021