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Meet five Black and Brown Southerners running for office to change the system

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire June 2, 2020September 16, 2020
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What you need to know about the new prosecutor on the Ahmaud Arbery case

by Rory Fleming June 1, 2020September 16, 2020
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HIV test sites challenged by COVID-19 restrictions in Baton Rouge

by Xander Adams May 29, 2020April 13, 2022
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Pay the Players: Racial equity and recognition in the NCAA

by Daniel Johnson May 26, 2020November 13, 2023
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Memorial Day and weaponizing the American flag

by Jedediah Purdy May 25, 2020December 3, 2020
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Dear national media, Southerners on unemployment aren't living high on the hog

by Katie Myers May 22, 2020September 16, 2020
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Without visits or confidential calls, Louisiana prisoners can't access legal help

by Katie Fernelius May 8, 2020September 16, 2020
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North Carolina officials are ignoring a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women

by Antoinette Kerr May 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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How the right to vote became a weapon of exclusion

by Andrew Dilts May 4, 2020September 16, 2020
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'Essential, Not Expendable'—Child care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19

by Stell Simonton May 1, 2020November 13, 2023
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Six Appalachian states did not expand Medicaid. Their free clinics are bearing the burden of COVID-19.

by Taylor Sisk April 28, 2020September 16, 2020
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How Georgia's governor is quietly obstructing criminal justice reform

by Rory Fleming April 13, 2020September 16, 2020
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Profit over people: Inside an Appalachian struggle to save rural healthcare

by Katie Myers April 10, 2020September 16, 2020
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Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 9, 2020September 16, 2020
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Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2020September 16, 2020
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'We don't want to die here.' Detained immigrants protest amid pandemic

by Carly Berlin April 6, 2020September 27, 2023
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COVID-19: An extensive—and growing—list of political demands in the South

by Danielle Purifoy April 3, 2020September 16, 2020
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Op-ed: Stay-at-home policy isn't effective without economic security and education

by Quran Karriem, Quisha Mallette, & Lewis Wallace March 27, 2020September 16, 2020
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Neighbors helping neighbors: a list of coronavirus mutual aid efforts in the South

by Carly Berlin March 20, 2020October 1, 2020
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This election season, Florida's people's assemblies focus on building a true democracy

by Eli Day March 17, 2020September 16, 2020
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Detainment centers are not equipped to handle the coronavirus, experts say

by Anna Simonton March 16, 2020September 16, 2020
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Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee

by Katie Myers March 9, 2020September 16, 2020
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In the wake of Tennessee's tornadoes, some ways to send and receive aid—and things to avoid

by Lovey Cooper March 6, 2020September 27, 2023
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NC workers making sub-minimum wage could get a boost on Super Tuesday

by Anna Simonton March 3, 2020September 16, 2020
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'Working sick'—Kentucky miners fight black lung regulations

by Austyn Gaffney March 2, 2020September 16, 2020
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North Carolina's hog industry could turn a corner—for better or worse

by Ryke Longest February 28, 2020September 27, 2023
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"If we can dismantle patriarchy and capitalism, we might be onto something"

by Gabrielle Hernandez January 28, 2020September 16, 2020
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In spite of victory on the field, NCAA football players continue to fight off the field to receive their due

by Daniel Johnson January 14, 2020November 13, 2023
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Winning labor rights in the South means changing state laws

by Carly Berlin January 13, 2020April 30, 2021
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A parachute-reporter's 10-step cheat sheet for covering the South

by Katherine Webb-Hehn January 6, 2020September 27, 2023

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